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Jamie Bynoe-Gittens celebrates with Youssoufa Moukoko
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Edin Terzić gave the next instruction to Julian Brandt using sign language.
First he showed him six fingers, then two.
According to the command, Brandt should be the second "six" next to Jude Bellingham in defensive midfield and thus move down a row.
It was one of many adjustments the Borussia Dortmund coach made in the second half to still win the Bundesliga game at SC Freiburg.
The change in formations, from a 4-2-3-1 to a 4-2-2-2 via a 4-1-3-2 back to a 4-2-2-2, went hand in hand with personnel changes, in which the phrase "lucky hand" was obvious.
Goalscorers Jamie Bynoe-Gittens, Youssoufa Moukoko and Marius Wolf, who turned the 0-1 deficit into a 3-1 win, were substituted on.
Brandt, who set up Moukoko's goal to make it 2-0, also came off the bench.
Appointing Edin Terzić as head coach again after parting ways with Marco Rose did not spark any euphoria in Dortmund, but it did create a positive mood, and that was worth a lot after tough years with many setbacks.
A severe setback threatened in Freiburg, because SC were on the verge of scoring another one in a very good phase after Michael Gregoritsch's goal before the break.
"We had to fight with eleven men not to concede the second goal," said Terzić, and he was proud that we succeeded.
"We don't just want to win the games, we want to dominate," Nico Schlotterbeck later formulated claims that BVB only fulfilled for the more important part on Friday evening.
The central defender assessed the performance on his return to Freiburg as critically as realistically.
"I think a lot of people didn't have a good game today," he said.
This was not the case for the players who came on as substitutes, and one of them still stood out, boosted mainly by statements from the coach.
He told Bynoe-Gittens "that he doesn't just play along, but decides the game," says Terzić.
He called his player a "game changer", attested to his "extraordinary skills" and "if things continue like this, he has a great future."
Such forecasts have been around at BVB for a long time.
Bynoe-Gittens will eventually be the next player to bring in a fee of 100 million euros, said someone at the club, who does not want to be quoted by name with this prophecy.
Jamie Bynoe-Gittens turned 18 on August 8th.
»The most beautiful gift I can imagine.
It was huge to come into this game and have such an impact,' said the Englishman, whose father originally came to the island from Barbados.
Bynoe-Gittens scored his first Bundesliga goal in Freiburg
Bynoe-Gittens trained at Reading FC for most of his youth, moving to Manchester City's academy in 2018 and BVB two years later.
Born in London and via Manchester City to Dortmund – these are parallels to Jadon Sancho's vita.
Since Bynoe-Gittens is also fast and strong at dribbling, comparisons with the England international are obvious.
His move to Manchester United brought the Dortmunders a transfer fee of more than 70 million euros.
Bynoe-Gittens scored his first Bundesliga goal in five games in Freiburg.
It was 1-1 with a long-range shot after a major mistake by goalkeeper Mark Flekken.
The Dortmunders freely admitted that his unfortunate little hands brought them back into the game decisively and aroused greed.
"After the 1-1, we kept our foot on the accelerator," praised Terzić, who made a decisive contribution to this with his personnel and tactical changes.
Bynoe-Gittens, who became European champion with England's U19s in the summer, and Moukoko, who was a year younger, pushed Anthony Modeste's debut into the background.
The newcomer from 1. FC Köln is 34 years old and has only been training with BVB for a few days.
He ran a lot, especially when chasing the ball. The two shots in the penalty area lacked precision, despite all his efforts he only got the ball 22 times. having to leave the place.
But Terzić's signs were different.