Victory against Mönchengladbach: Brandt shoots Dortmund against Mönchengladbach in the Cup knockout stages

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Borussia Dortmund - Borussia Mönchengladbach 2: 1 (0: 0)

A quarter of an hour was still to play, and it looked dark for BVB. Dortmund had started well in the second-round match of the DFB Cup against Gladbach, but the longer the game lasted, the weaker was the last-scoring BVB. Then came the appearance of Julian Brandt.

In the 77th minute, the Dortmund attacker initially put on a great opportunity for Jadon Sancho - albeit from off-suspicious position. Seconds later Brandt then scored the 1: 1, his shot from the penalty area was deflected by two Gladbacher, Denis Zakaria and Nico Elvedi. Only three minutes later he launched his second goal with a spectacular Hacking trick himself.

The hits fell in the middle of a BVB low. Actually, the hosts had long been game-defining, Thorgan Hazard had missed with a long-range shot the possible 1: 0 (29th Minute). After Gladbach had come to his first good chance, Marcus Thuram failed from a short distance to BVB keeper Marwin Hitz, built Dortmund from.

Gladbach Thuram profited on a cross from a problem assignment in the BVB defense and brought the league leaders in the Bundesliga (71). But Dortmund still had Julian Brandt.

FC St. Pauli - Eintracht Frankfurt 1: 2 (1: 2)

Even without several regulars Frankfurt won at FC St. Pauli. The visitors were already scoring their first shot on goal: Martin Hinteregger crossed the box from the right half of the field, where Bas Dost pushed past Daniel Buballa and headed home into the right corner (4 '). The Dutchman Dost was also the one who scored a 2-0 win over goalkeeper Korbinian Müller (17.). Although the Eintracht started much stronger in the game, but had to accept a penalty from a handball by Hinteregger in his own penalty area. Turned Waldemar Sobota into the right corner just before half-time (42 ').

Fortuna Dusseldorf - Erzgebirge Aue 2: 1 (1: 1)

The excitement of the game occurred just before half-time. Dusseldorf's Erik Thommy went down in the Auer penalty area, allegedly because he had been touched by defender Sören Gonther. Whether that was true could not be said by means of TV pictures. Referee Tobias Reichel decided in any case on penalty - a video referee who can correct possible wrong decisions, there is not in the first rounds of the cup. So Rouwen Hennings met by penalty kick to equalize (45.).

Previously, Fortuna keeper Florian Kastenmeier had not managed to clear a cross in the 13th minute, and so Florian Krüger came free to the shot and scored the 1-0. After the equalizer the Bundesliga side was superior to the second division; Kasim Adams scored in the 75th minute, the Duesseldorf goal.