Bundesliga: Dortmund defeated Mönchengladbach 3-0

LA series of failures is not uncommon in the world of sports, but the fact that a top Bundesliga team loses a dozen competitive matches in a row against a certain opponent is not only impressive, but also rare. Borussia Dortmund won 3-0 (1-0) on Saturday night after the goals of Giovanni Reyna and Erling Haaland against Mönchengladbach, it was actually the twelfth victory in a row against this opponent, which was celebrated with great exuberance because finally the spectators they were there again. .

At least a small part of Dortmund’s good old home game feeling emerged, even if most of the seats in the 80,000-seat stadium, which was packed with around 9,300 people, remained empty. Those who did, however, enjoyed the rituals of a Bundesliga match, which had not been practiced for a long time: there were chants and cheers, and the queues at the entrance doors were sometimes quite crowded. But those risky moments may not be completely avoided by returning to public sport.

When people sat in their seats, he first had to see that his team was having huge problems with the ball hunting strategy of the Lower Rhine guests. Midfield surrendered, Mönchengladbach developed enormous physical strength, a game Combination to the opposite goal was almost never achieved by the Dortmunders. Haaland had BVB’s best chance of the first half hour in a counter situation after a long ball; Nico Elvedi knew how to direct the dangerous shot from the forward just outside the gate (22).

Hazard must be injured from the field

At this point, coach Lucien Favre had to make a change. Thorgan Hazard, who assisted left on the defensive chain of five, had to leave the field. Felix Passlack took over the Belgian post because several other candidates for this problematic Dortmund post are injured: Marcel Schmelzer, Raphael Guerreiro or Nico Schulz. In central midfield, however, Favre has a well-stocked pool of different types of players, and the coach really decided to play this difficult game with two 17-year-olds in the starting lineup: Jude Bellingham, who beat BVB in the summer by 25 million euros. from England’s second division Birmingham City, and with Giovanni Reyna. Marco Reus initially just sat on the bench, the captain gradually introducing himself to the competition after his complicated adductor injury. And indeed, the main goal of BVB was created from a co-production between the two teenagers.