Champions League: Dortmund's Sebastian Kehl blasts Galatasaray fans

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Borussia Dortmund midfielder Sebastian Kehl branded the Galatasaray fans who threw flares during their Champions League clash at the Westfalenstadion "idiots" and claimed their team was "ashamed" of them.

Dortmund's midfielder, Sebastian Kehl

The match, which Dortmund won 4-1, twice had to be stopped by officials in the second half due to flares being thrown from the Gala section on to the pitch and into other blocks in the stands.

Dortmund boss Jurgen Klopp was screaming for the match to be stopped again late on as further firecrackers could be heard around the ground.

Kehl told the Dortmund website: "If Galatasaray fans throw missiles on to the pitch or even into other blocks, you are concerned.

"What idiots. Someone could be injured, perhaps children were standing there. All that preoccupies you, even if you shouldn't really be distracted.

"You could notice from the Galatasaray players that they were ashamed of the behaviour of their fans."

Gala have already been charged by UEFA this season over their fans setting off and throwing fireworks in the match away to Arsenal at the start of October.

Klopp described the scenes in the stands as "a bad image", adding in the Bild newspaper: "If emotions have these negative effects it's gone too far.

"Unfortunately I can't say that such a thing has never happened with us - we have also been responsible for a few not so great scenes. But that casts a shadow on a fantastic game from us . That was pure provocation."

Dortmund's sporting director Michael Zorc accused the Gala fans of "constant provocation".

On the moment fireworks were thrown down as Dortmund's Shinji Kagawa prepared to take a corner, forward Marco Reus said: "You of course get worried then, because it can hit anyone."

From a performance perspective, Klopp could see improvement in his struggling side as they booked their place in the Champions League knockout stage.

Dortmund made it four wins out of four in Group D, but it is in the Bundesliga where they are most in need of points, having lost their last five league games to sit second bottom of the table. ...SkySports