Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic said semifinal opponents Paris Saint-Germain were “built to win the Champions League”, ahead of Wednesday’s first leg.

Terzic said on Tuesday lifting the European Cup has been the “main objective” of PSG since being taken over by Qatar Sports Investments.

“The project in Paris began with the goal of winning the Champions League,” Terzic told reporters. “That’s been their main objective for a decade.”

PSG were crowned Ligue 1 champions on Sunday, their 10th league title in the past 12 seasons.
The domestic dominance has however translated into European silverware. PSG lost the final in 2020 to Bayern Munich.

Dortmund, who won the competition in 1997, are playing in the semifinals for the fifth time in the club’s history and the first time since 2013.

Terzic singled out Kylian Mbappe for particular praise, but said PSG posed an attacking threat across the park.

“It’s the question you hear the most: ‘How do you stop Kylian Mbappe?’ But if you focus only on Kylian Mbappe, then comes Ousmane Dembele or (Goncalo) Ramos, or Vitinha, or (Achraf) Hakimi, or (Randal) Kolo Muani and all the others,” he said.