Juventus 2-1 Borussia Dortmund: Player Ratings From Tight ChampionsLeague First Leg

​Juventus took a slender lead over Borussia Dortmund in the first leg of their Champions League second round tie, with Max Allegri's side winning 2-1 in Turin.

The tie is finely balanced going into the return leg at Signal Iduna Park, but here are the player ratings from the initial clash.

​Roman Weidenfeller (4) Nervous performance overall, typified by his shocking parry into Tevez's path for the first goal.

Lukasz Piszczek (6) Unfortunate to be taken off injured after making an impression in the first half.

Mats Hummels (6) Tevez caused problems to the World Cup winner. Not the best performance by any means but looked strong in spells.

Sokratis Papastathopoulos (5) Struggled with Morata before being taken off at the break.

Marcel Schmelzer (6) Solid defensively but was wasteful with his deliveries from crosses.

Ilkay Gundogan (8) Produced an excellent display with his short passing always hitting the mark, while he protected the back four at the same time. Responsible for the tempo of the game for large spells.

Nuri Sahin (7) Sahin contributed to the game's tempo too, though he didn't have much say in attack.

Henrikh Mkhitaryan (5) Little to no impact made by the Armenian. Disappointing.

Marco Reus (8) Menacing display. Marked tightly by Juve but caused problems when he drifted in to the centre. Quick thinking allowed him to steal the ball off Chiellini to equalise.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang (6) Under the control of Evra for the most part.

​Ciro Immobile (5) Anonymous for the most part. Did flash a long range shot or two over the bar though.

SUBSTITUTIONS

Matthias Ginter (5) Played at both right back and centre half after replacing Piszczek, looking nervous at times.

Oliver Kirch (5) Wasteful in possession after coming on at half time.

Jakub Blaszczykowski (6) Typically full of energy after coming on as a late substitute.

Mats Hummels berang bila dikaitkan bakal berpindah ke Manchester.

Hummels tidak berminat ke Manchester United dan menolak segala khabar angin mengenainya 

The Dortmund defender has been consistently linked with a big-money exit with the club's poor form doing nothing to dampen such talk Stuart Franklin

Nein! Hummels is not interested in talking about Manchester United right now

Mats Hummels has reacted angrily when quizzed over a potential move to Manchester United next summer.

The German international has been linked with the Borussia Dortmund exit door for some time, and the club's slide towards the bottom of the Bundesliga has done nothing to dampen such talk.

While a move this month still appears unlikely a switch in the summer, with Dortmund potentially not in Europe next year, could well be on.

But Hummels, when asked about whether he would leave at the end of the season, wasn't interested in such speculation at this time.

"Are you looking for a headline?," he said in an interview with German newspaper Bild.

 

"No, I will keep it the way I've been doing it for seven years. I'll let everything come to me and just look forward only to the start against Leverkusen and the second half of the season."

With the winter break nearly at an end Jurgen Klopp's men return to action this weekend against Bayer Leverkusen looking to climb back up the table after a disastrous run that sees them that sat 17th.

"I'm really completely relaxed," he added.

"I really only think about what I contribute on the pitch and in the dressing room, that we get better and move as quickly as possible from the bottom of the table."