Dhe new lightness of being, Borussia Dortmund remains. Four days after the 2-1 freestyle in the round of 16 first leg of the Champions League against Paris St. Germain, the following duty also succeeded in everyday life in the Bundesliga. The team of coach Lucien Favre won 2-0 (0-0) at Kellerkind Werder Bremen and thus gets all options in the title race.
For the SVW, on the other hand, the meager time continues bleakly: there are five lean home points in this league series. And after nine defeats in the past ten point games, the hope of still reaching the saving 15th place is disappearing. What is also thought-provoking: Werder’s Zagadou goal after a corner (52nd minute) conceded the 16th goal against a standard. Erling Haaland (66.) scored 2-0 – it was season number twelve of the 19-year-old Norwegian in his eighth competitive game for BVB.
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After a minute’s silence for the victims of the Hanau terrorist attack, which was held in all Bundesliga stadiums, the hosts, as instructed by trainer Florian Kohfeldt, started to fire. Dortmund held against it with cool ball possession football. There was no real goal chance until the break, after which BVB turned up concentrated and came to his chances and goals.
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On the back: Werders Davie Selke does not get the ball against BVB new signing Emre Can
Source: REUTERS
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Regardless of all the latest results, Dortmund is already zealously planning for the (good) future behind the scenes. After the transfer coup with Haaland, which came from RB Salzburg for a fixed 20 million euros, Emre Can’s commitment was strapped in at the beginning of the week for around 25 million – less than two weeks after the loan had been arranged with Juventus.
The international has recently shown how important the 26-year-old is to BVB in the first against Paris. Can shone, as now in Bremen, as a tactically savvy aggressive leader who – if it has to be – spoils the fun of the game even in super tough mode like Neymar.
Despite the recent successes, coach Lucien Favre apparently remains a shaky candidate. According to “Sport Bild” BVB consultant Matthias Sammer is said to have already intensively felt for the Dutchman Erik ten Hag from Ajax Amsterdam – regarding a commitment to the new season.
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Successful at Ajax Amsterdam: coach Erik Ten Hag
Credit: AFP / JAVIER SORIANO
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The 50-year-old Dutchman has developed talents like Frankie de Jong, 22 (now FC Barcelona), Matthijs de Ligt, 19 (Juventus Turin), or Kasper Dolberg, 21 (Nice) – and shone at Ajax as a man with modern skills tactical maxims.
Sammer signed the candidate from Amsterdam in 2013. As FC Bayern sports director, he brought ten Hag as coach for the second Munich team. Since then there has been close, private contact – which has apparently now been intensified again.
Schalke 04 – RB Leipzig
RB Leipzig does not shake off in the title fight and remains the first pursuer of Bayern Munich. With the sovereign and deserved 5: 0 (1: 0) success at the ailing European Cup contender FC Schalke 04, the team of coach Julian Nagelsmann reduced the gap to leaders Bayern Munich, who presented 3: 2 against SC Paderborn on Friday evening had again on a counter.
Marcel Sabitzer with a lightning goal in the first minute of the game, national striker Timo Werner (61.), Marcel Halstenberg (68.), Angelino (81.) and Emil Forsberg (89.) sealed Saturday’s second defeat of the season in front of 61 433 spectators Royal blues, who remain in sixth place despite the fifth game without a win.
Hertha BSC – 1. FC Cologne
The self-proclaimed “Big City Club” Hertha BSC has conquered the next bitter home bankruptcy and stumbles towards the relegation zone in this form. Against an offensively efficient 1. FC Köln, extremely counter-vulnerable and partly helpless Berliners went down 0: 5 (0: 3).
Jhon Cordoba (4./22.) Laid the foundation stone for the important Cologne victory and the dramatic Berlin bankruptcy with his season goals eight and nine in the morning, Florian Kainz (39./62.) And Mark Uth (70.) later sealed the Three through which the FC passed the tied Berliners (26). Since the turn of the millennium, it is only the third victory for the cathedral townspeople on the carnival weekend, in the previous 19 games Cologne had only won at FC Bayern (2009) and FC Ingolstadt (2019).
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The usual picture against Cologne: kick-off Hertha BSC
Source: AP / Michael Sohn
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For the Berliners, who have to look down a week after the 2-1 win at SC Paderborn the previous week, it is the first defeat after the spectacular resignation of ex-coach Jürgen Klinsmann. In addition, there are only eleven points from 12 home games. Already next Friday the team of interim coach Alexander Nouri at Fortuna Düsseldorf, the next direct cellar rival, will be challenged.
Freiburg – Dusseldorf
Fortuna Düsseldorf has also stopped its downward slide. The Rhinelander won at SC Freiburg and took their first win in the second half of the season. The new coach Uwe Rösler celebrated the first three in the Bundesliga under his direction.
Defenders Andre Hoffmann (37.) and Erik Thommy (61.) met for the Fortuna, where during the week the announced farewell to sports director Lutz Pfannenstiel caused a stir. Nevertheless, the Düsseldorf team got rid of their weakness away from home: The team won for the first time abroad after ten unsuccessful attempts.
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The guests, where attacker Kenan Karaman was right in the starting XI after his month-long break due to pneumonia, were well involved from the start. In contrast to the Breisgauer. The Freiburg, who had to get by without Lukas Kübler, had a lot of trouble with themselves and their opponents in the first quarter of an hour. The international players Robin Koch and Luca Waldschmidt were unable to provide any impetus for the weak game.
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