Borussia Dortmund’s run to the 2024 Champions League final featured plenty of memorable performances. From topping the toughest of groups, to knocking out PSV and Atlético Madrid to reach the last four, Edin Terzić‘s team were mightily impressive. All of which led to a semi-final showdown with star-studded Paris Saint-Germain – the subject of this Coaches’ Voice exclusive Masterclass with Terzić, who was head coach of Dortmund for two and a half seasons between 2020 and 2024.

Although Dortmund had finished above PSG in the group stage earlier in the 2023/24 Champions League campaign, the French champions had shown their quality by taking four points from those games. Now they were fresh from thrashing Barcelona 4-1, away from home, to clinch the semi-final date with Dortmund. And PSG’s expensively assembled team – from Gianluigi Donnarumma at the back to Kylian Mbappé up front – were widely tipped to end the Bundesliga club’s impressive run.

Instead, Terzić and his team rose to the occasion, not once but twice. A well-drilled Dortmund put in two wonderfully disciplined and skilled performances, across 180 minutes of Champions League football, to win both legs 1-0. Here, in his Coaches’ Voice Masterclass, Terzić reveals in detail the diligent plans that his players put into practice against PSG. It was an elite test they passed with flying colours, not least in keeping two clean sheets against PSG’s array of attacking talent.

Using the iconic Coaches‘ Voice tactics board, Terzić explains the in and out-of-possession principles and tactics that his team employed. For the winning goals, he reveals the strategy behind the attacking transition that enabled them to take the lead, and the set-piece movement that created the winning goal in Paris. As one of the most promising head coaches in the game, he also discusses the mentality it was necessary to instil into his players, to rise to the challenge of reaching the Champions League final.