Bundesliga, 25th matchday
Bitter home bankruptcy: whistle against BVB – shock for Bayer
Updated on 08.03.2025 – 5:48 p.m.Reading time: 4 min.
The “black and yellow” disappoint FC Augsburg and collect a bitter setback. Bayern persecutors Bayer Leverkusen also experiences a game to forget.
Accompanied by whistles of his own fans, Borussia Dortmund collected a very sensitive defeat on the 25th Bundesliga matchday: BVB lost 0-1 (0: 1) against FC Augsburg on Saturday afternoon. Jeffrey Gouweleeuw (23rd) scored the goal of the day for the Fuggerstädter, who have now equated with Dortmund in the table (both 35 points).
Double winner Bayer Leverkusen surprisingly also lost 0: 2 (0: 1) against Werder Bremen and thus collected the first defeat after 22 Bundesliga games in a row without bankruptcy. Romano Schmid (7th) hit the Bremen away win early, Justin Njinmah (90.+4) increased in stoppage time. In the other two games from Saturday afternoon, Holstein Kiel defied a 2: 2 (1: 1) to VfB Stuttgart, VfL Wolfsburg saved a 1: 1 (0: 1) against FC St. Pauli.
In this constitution, BVB will find the progress in the Champions League at the OSC Lille (first leg 1: 1), and the 0: 1 (0: 1) was also a bitter dabbed when chase in the league. The fans already acknowledged the performance with a loud whistle concert.
At that time, the Augsburg captain Gouweleeuw had put the FCA in the lead with a header from a larger distance. Dortmund, who wanted to get self -confidence for the round of 16 in Lille with a victory, was completely harmless and without ideas. Dynamics and train to the gate were missing, the walking paths did not fit, the few degrees were lax. Despite a significant overweight in terms of possession of the ball, the hosts remained completely harmless.
A reaction after the 0: 1 initially failed to materialize that the BVB earned nine corners in the first half, but no noteworthy chance – and raised the audience against itself. Brandt, who acted lucky, had to endure whistles as well as Pascal Groß, whose attempt to pull a corner kick directly on the goal failed miserably.
The fans were conciliatory after the break, they tuned BVB to the second half. The team should fight and win. It also brought about a goal, but Brandt was offside. A little later, the supposed 2: 0 was withdrawn before Özcan steered the ball into his own goal, a Augsburg was found to be offside. BVB coach Niko Kovač reacted, initially brought Maximilian Beier and Julian Rerson as well as a little later Marcel Sabitzer and Julien Duranville. But BVB did not succeed in putting Augsburg under pressure.
Bayer coach Xabi Alonso changed his starting line-up to a total of seven positions. The master and cup winner was correspondingly difficult. Instead of a straight-line offensive football, the spectators saw a lot of balls in midfield. And then the defense also failed.
Mario Hermoso played a catastrophic bad pass into the legs of André Silva on his own penalty area. The Portuguese quickly fit into the middle of Jens Stage, who continued to go to the better positioned Schmid, who in turn overcame Bayer goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky from nearby dance. Leverkusen subsequently occurred little against the well -ordered Bremen defense. It took until the 26th minute before the home side came dangerously in front of the guests’ goal for the first time. After a flat cross from Aleix Garcia, Emiliano Buendia failed from a short distance from the strongly reacting Werder goalkeeper Michael Zetterer.