Jurgen Klopp thinks his Dortmund players have shown they have what it will take to achieve the Champions League semi-finals and overcome a tough Malaga. The German part received 0-0 in Spain in the first leg last Wednesday before coming from behind to conquer Augsburg 4-2 in the Bundesliga at the weekend. "The staff passed the smoothness test," said Klopp. "It was very important to show that people play football to win." Borussia Dortmund midfielder Sven Bender knows his side can ill afford to be satisfied and wasteful against a Malaga side that have reached the last eight inside their introduction Champions League strategy. "It is really a dangerous starting position," he explained. "We should not start out stupidly and be found out on a, like we were (against Augsburg) on Saturday." Malaga go to Dortmund knowing that they got away with it in the initial leg in Spain. But having escaped with a 0-0, they are still in with a genuine chance of rendering it to the last four and equalling the successes of Villarreal, who under Malagaas recent instructor Mauricio Pellegrini, turned the first debutant to attain the last four of this competition in 2006. Pellegrini flew home to Chile on Saturday to attend the funeral of his father, but is expected to be in Dortmund for Tuesday's game and spoke ahead of the Dortmund game of the significance of not conceding a target at home. His team are not especially defensive nevertheless and their controlled control game provides both a defensive and fighting objective. And Pellegrinias factors have a pattern of knowing how to show a tie around, having lost 1-0 to Hamilton Academical Porto in the very first leg of these quarter-final. Which was something his Villarreal group were excellent at as well, and the tricky Andalucians can not be eliminated. The Facts Venue: Westfalen Stadium Date: Thursday 9 May Kick-off: 19:45 BST Current kind Borussia Dortmund: Stuttgart 1-2 Borussia Dortmund (30/03; Bundesliga) Malaga 0-0 Borussia Dortmund (03/04; Champions League) Borussia Dortmund 4-2 Augsburg (06/04; Bundesliga) Malaga: Rayo Vallecano 1-3 Malaga (30/03; La Liga) Malaga 0-0 Borussia Dortmund (03/04; Champions League) Real Sociedad 4-2 Malaga (06/04; Manhunter Liga) Important absences Borussia Dortmund: Marco Reus (doubt ); Roman Weidenfeller (doubt ); Rugs Hummels; Jakub Blaszczykowski Malaga: Eliseu; Welington; Manuel Iturra
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