Wild exchange of blows, blatant defensive mistakes: Borussia Dortmund received the next serious setback in the spectacular second half of the season opener against Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Munich - On Friday evening,
BVB * stayed
away from home with a 2: 4 (2: 2) win for the third time in a row and have
to
fear
more than ever about
qualifying
for the
Champions League
.
Borussia
vom Niederrhein, still
undefeated this year
, moved past Dortmund to fourth place in the
Bundesliga
table
*
after their first win against Westphalia in almost six years
.
The team of coach
Marco Rose, who is
heavily courted by BVB, achieved
the third home win this season against a
top league team
after the successes against
RB Leipzig
and
FC Bayern
.
A double from Dortmund's super striker
Erling Haaland
(22nd minute / 28th) was too little for BVB, who had a disappointing English week with just one point from the games against
Mainz
(1: 1) in
Leverkusen
(1: 2) ) and now
graduated
in
Gladbach
.
The 20-year-old Norwegian surpassed
Uwe Seeler
, who once also needed 28 games for his first 26 goals
, with his Bundesliga players 26 and 27 in only the 28th Bundesliga game
.
Gladbach - BVB: foals are stopped by video evidence
However,
Nico Elvedi
(11th and 32nd),
Ramy Bensebaini
(49th) and substitute
Marcus Thuram
(79th)
made the Gladbach victory
perfect.
It didn't even take a minute when the tension on the pitch was high.
Jonas Hofmann
took
the ball from
Dortmund's
Jude Bellingham in
front of the BVB penalty area and passed it on to
Florian Neuhaus
.
The national player did not wait long, started to swing and cheered the supposed lead after just 43 seconds.
Dortmund keeper
Roman Bürki was
powerless
against the deflected ball
.
But then: video evidence.
Referee Manuel Gräfe
decided retrospectively: Foul by Hofmann, no goal for Gladbach.
Rose, who had clapped half of the BVB bank before the game, was annoyed on the sidelines.
Incidentally, he is traded with BVB as the successor to Erdin Terzic.
The Dortmunders did not really hear the extremely early wake-up call.
In the seventh minute Bürki saved after a low shot against Hofmann, a little later he could not do anything either.
Hofmann was involved again, this time as a preparer.
Elvedi headed
his free-kick
into the lead.
The BVB defense around former world champion
Mats Hummels
was not up to date.
After a short wait,
the confirmation for the Gladbach 1-0
came from the
video cellar
.
Gladbach stadium announcer against Dortmund: "The half-time whistle, hallelujah"
No sooner had the game started than the nightly excursion by
Breel Embolo
and all speculations about a Rose future among the Dortmunders were forgotten.
Now football was played - and how, after conceding the goal, also by the Westphalia.
The team of coach
Edin Terzic
no longer let the Gladbachers do it, interfered earlier and, thanks to Haaland, turned a 0: 1 into a 2: 1.
Rose reacted, switched from back three to the more familiar back four.
It was not flawless after that, nor was it boring.
Strong offensive rows met defensive chains with blunder potential.
Had fans been in the stadium, they would have got their money's worth.
But as it was, the Gladbach players celebrated the second Elvedi goal - this time Bürki didn't look good.
"The half-time whistle, Hallelulja," commented
Gladbach's *
stadium announcer
about
the spectacle in the first half.
The second went on just as wildly.
With his first Bundesliga goal since May 2020, Bensebaini brought the Gladbach team back into the lead.
The hosts could not yet feel safe.
BVB pushed.
After 70 minutes Terzic took Marco Reus off the field, disappointed the
BVB *
captain
threw
off his shoes.
In addition to Embolo, Rose also brought Thuram, who had to sit out five games after his spit attack.
And he of all people sealed the victory with a header goal.
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