Champions League
Penalty, red, double strike: BVB clearly beats Kellerkind
Updated 11/25/2025 – 11:06 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
The Dortmund team initially has problems with uncomfortable guests. Shortly before the break, however, there is a key moment – then all the dams break.
Mandatory task more than confidently fulfilled: Borussia Dortmund clearly beat FC Villarreal 4-0 (1-0) and have now climbed to fifth place in the Champions League table, at least for the time being.
Serhou Guirassy (45th + 2, 54th), Karim Adeyemi (58th) and Daniel Svensson (90th + 5) scored on Tuesday evening against the still winless Spaniards, who suffered their fourth defeat in the fifth preliminary round game. Fabio Silva (82nd) missed a penalty kick. Villarreal had to play outnumbered since the 53rd minute after Juan Foyth was shown a red card for a handball in the penalty area.
Before the double duel with former champions Bayer Leverkusen in the league (Saturday) and in the DFB Cup (Tuesday), Kovac rotated five times – once out of necessity because attacker Maximilian Beier was unavailable. Among other things, national striker Adeyemi was included in the starting eleven. The BVB coach justified the personnel changes at Amazon Prime with “freshness”: “We are playing at home today. We want to win the game.”
However, after three games without a win in a row, his team is longing for stability. This was also clearly noticeable in the first half. Dortmund started dominantly, but without creating any chances. As the game went on, the Spaniards became more courageous and posed problems for the nervous BVB. The game was boring.
Shortly before the tired kick went into the break, BVB took the lead by chance and luck. After a poke in the penalty area, Guirassy pushed the ball over the line with his head. The previous season’s Champions League top scorer, who had struggled so much in recent weeks, scored for the first time in all of November. The goal was checked because the ball had previously hit Waldemar Anton’s hand, but this was classified as unintentional.
With a lot of luck things continued after the break. Adeyemi completed a promising counterattack with a shot on goal that bounced off Foyth’s shoulder on the line. The Italian referee Davide Massa still gave a hand penalty, even stayed with it after studying the video images and then pulled out a red card for the Argentine, who had also jumped towards the ball. Guirassy only increased the score to 2-0 with a follow-up shot; Villarreal’s keeper Luiz Junior had parried the penalty beforehand.
A short time later, against only ten guests, Adeyemi unintentionally made it 3-0. The 23-year-old was shot by Thomas Partey. Substitute Fábio Silva initially missed a great opportunity to make the result even clearer with a penalty in the final phase (82′). Svensson then succeeded.