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Posted: Tuesday March 5, 2013 4:53 PM

Dortmund beats Donetsk 3-0 to advance

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DORTMUND, Germany (AP) -Borussia Dortmund beat Shakhtar Donetsk 3-0 to reach the Champions League quarterfinals on Tuesday for the first time since it won the competition in 1997.

Felipe Santana scored in the 31stminute, Mario Goetze in the 37th and Jakub Blaszczykovski in the 59th to complete the victory that sent the German champion through 5-2 on aggregate.

In the other Round of 16 match on Tuesday, Real Madrid beat Manchester United 2-1 to advance 3-2 on aggregate.

The Champions League is Dortmund's only chance to win a trophy this season. Dortmund achieved the domestic double last season but has been eliminated from the German Cup by Bayern Munich and was 17 points behind the Bavarian side in the Bundesliga.

Dortmund was without central defender Mats Hummels, down with the flu. But his replacement Santana got Dortmund rolling with the first goal. Hummels scored the late equalizer in the first leg in Ukraine.

Santana rose above Yaroslav Rakitskiy to head in Mario Goetze's corner. Razvan Rat was on the line but the shot went over his head.

Only six minutes later, Robert Lewandowski broke through on the right and sent in a perfect low cross that Goetze knocked in.

Lewandowski, Dortmund's top scorer, missed chances both before and after Dortmund's two goals in the first half.

Shakhtar came close to scoring in the final minute of the first half, when Fernandinho tested Roman Weidenfeller with an angled shot but the Dortmund goalkeeper tipped it over.

Shakhtar coach Mircea Lucescu sent in Dougles Costa at the start of the second half and the speedy midfielder gave a lift to his team.

He made a threatening run from his own half, sprinting past two Dortmund players before Weidenfeller thwarted his attempt.

Costa then narrowly missed the target with a low shot across the goal.

The match was settled with Blaszczykowski's goal in the 59th. The midfielder fed Ilkay Guendogan, who shot from the edge of the penalty area. Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov caught the ball but fumbled it and Blaszczykowski put it into the net.

Both sides wasted some late chances.

 
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