Borussia Dortmund vs Atletico Madrid prediction, odds, best bets for Champions League second leg

While both flounder in their respective domestic leagues, Borussia Dortmund and Atletico Madrid vie for a surprising place in the Champions League semifinals as they clash at Signal Iduna Park in Germany.

Atletico Madrid hold a slender 2-1 aggregate lead after securing victory in the first leg of their quarterfinal matchup at home last week. Diego Simeone's side were the better team throughout, but a late consolation goal from Sebastien Haller handed Dortmund a welcome lifeline as they return home.

Neither club has performed consistently in their league this season. Atletico Madrid teetering on the precipice of Champions League qualification as they rest fourth in the La Liga table, and Dortmund are in even more peril as they sit fifth, outside the UCL places on goal differential.

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Yet it has been a different story in European action, where the lights are the brightest. Atletico Madrid stunned Italian champions Inter in the Round of 16 to reach this stage, while Dortmund won a brutally difficult group before dispatching PSV in the previous knockout matchup. 

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The contrast of Atletico Madrid at home and on the road is stark, and while European wizard Diego Simeone will have his team set up well to protect this lead, they are just not formulated to defend waves of pressure like Simeone sides of the past.

Atletico Madrid haven't kept a clean sheet in any competition at any venue in just shy of two months, and they haven't managed to do so on the road since late January when Granada put just two of 17 shots on frame in a 1-0 Atleti victory. This has comeback written all