Borussia Dortmund 8 Legia Warsaw 4: Marco Reus hat-trick as Dortmund and Legia make Champions League history with 12-goal thriller

BORUSSIA DORTMUND made Champions League history with Legia Warsaw after winning 8-4 at the Westfalenstadion.

Marco Reus scored a hat-trick in the rout as spectators also saw the highest scoring first half in the competition’s history with the score at the break being 5-2.

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Aleksandar Prijovic surprisingly opened the scoring after ten minutes for the visitors.

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But Dortmund hit back to put themselves 3-1 up in the space of three minutes, thanks to two goals from Shinji Kawaga and one from Nuri Sahin.

Prijovic brought Warsaw back in contention with another goal but Ousmane Dembele and Marco Reus put Thomas Tuchel’s side back in control of the tie at half time.

Reus then got the scoreline ticking over again just seven minutes after the interval, before Michal Kucharczyk pulled one back for Warsaw.

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Fans then had to wait until the 81st minute for the final set of goals after Felix Passlack scored Dortmund's seventh goal before Nemanja Nikolic also got in on the act for the visitors.

The evening was rounded off when Reus scored in stoppage time, shortly before the referee called time on the manic match.

Dortmund's media team had hilarious coverage of the unforgettable tie.

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