Gladbach made it exciting again and almost gave up a Bundesliga victory that was believed to be certain.
Brave Bochumers want to score against other teams.
“We have to leave the church in the village,” says trainer Thomas Reis.
Mönchengladbach - struggled and relieved, the cup heroes took to the north curve and celebrated the end of an intense week.
After the furious cup win against FC Bayern on Wednesday, Borussia Mönchengladbach fulfilled the duty in the Bundesliga four days later.
In the 2: 1 (2: 0) against VfL Bochum, the team of coach Adi Hütter had to tremble unnecessarily on Sunday in the final phase.
The people of Gladbach were therefore not really satisfied.
“We didn't manage to close the bag and take a 3-0 lead.
We have to be happy that we won, ”said coach Adi Hütter at DAZN.
National player Matthias Ginter said: "If we had played to zero in the end, I would be happier."
Alassane Plea (12th minute) and Jonas Hofmann (40th) scored the goals in front of 42,361 spectators, further opportunities in the second half remained unused.
Substitute Danny Blum made it exciting again with a great free kick (86th).
“That was a little too late,” said Bochum's Anthony Losilla.
If Gladbach keeper Yann Sommer hadn't shown his whole class against Milos Pantovic in his 300th Bundesliga game shortly before the final whistle, the fourth Bundesliga win of the season would have been gone.
“When you see that you have a very, very good chance of scoring with the last action, then it's very annoying.
I'm happy with the way the team performed.
But not with the result, ”said Bochum's coach Thomas Reis.
With the victory they finally deserved in a long one-sided game, the Gladbachers overtook their Rhenish rivals 1. FC Köln in the table after ten match days and jumped to tenth place with 14 points. The newcomer from Bochum, who had previously scored two wins, remains table-14 with ten points.
In view of the recent negative experiences in the league, especially against supposedly weaker teams, Hütter had made his team responsible and made the cup coup the benchmark for the league as well.
In fact, the Borussia coach renounced rotation after the 5-0 win and only replaced the injured defender Jordan Beyer somewhat surprisingly with attacker Plea, who last started six weeks ago at 0-1 at FC Augsburg.
The Frenchman, who could hardly convince before this season, showed a strong performance this time, was always playable and dangerous in the Gladbacher's permanent attack mode against overwhelmed Bochumers.
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With his second goal of the season, he crowned the one-sided early phase of Gladbach, in which they had almost 80 percent possession and pushed the Bochumers, who were defensive and waiting, as expected, into the defense. Plea also prepared the second goal. National player Hofmann slammed the ball from an acute angle on the inside post of the far corner and gave Bochum goalkeeper Manuel Riemann no chance. Riemann had been a celebrated match winner in the DFB Cup four days earlier as a substitute for substitute keeper Michael Esser for the penalty shoot-out against Augsburg.
They found their way into the game brilliantly, said Hofmann, only to puzzle over the second half.
“We weren't that agile anymore, we weren't as happy to play.
We made simple mistakes in midfield.
If we still get the compensation at the back, we'll tear our heads off. ”Dpa
