At Nico Schlotterbeck’s comeback, Borussia Dormtund doesn’t burn anything in the home game against VfL Wolfsburg and is still the first Bayern persecutor.
Karim Adeyemi’s first Bundesliga season (20th minute) was enough for the black and yellow on Sunday to a 1-0 (1-0) success. Without defeat and with ten points from four games, Dortmund ranked two points behind the perfectly started record champions Bayern Munich. “Of course it was a short result“, BVB coach Niko Kovac admitted to the Sportschau microphone,”But we didn’t allow anything from the Wolfsburgers. And in the end we played it down really well.“
Andreas Kramer, Sportschau, September 21, 2025 10:04 pm
VfL coach Paul Simonis was fundamentally satisfied with the appearance of his team in the sports show conversation-except for the game forward: “If I criticize something, it is that we have created too few chances from the game. We had two good situations. This is a little too little.“
Wolfsburg sorts out in the lower half of the table with five points further and captain Maximilian Arnold was also not satisfied with the offensive performance. “We haven’t played out so many chances“, he told the sports show,”In the last third we were too inaccurate and so it was difficult to take something here.“
Schlotterbeck back in the starting eleven
Dominant, but without too much risk, the hosts determined the game. The triple chain with Waldemar Anton, Ramy Bensbainie and – for the first time after his men’s discourse almost five and a half months ago – Schlotterbeck did not allow a single shot in the first half, which also came to the goal.
Burkhard Hupe, Sportschau Bundesliga Highlights, September 21, 2025 9:26 pm
And the BVB had a lot of upper water offensive. In the 2nd minute, Adeyemi was still targeting the gate left. But after 20 minutes it fit: at 125 km/h he brought the ball to 1-0 in the goal.
Andreas Kramer, Sportschau, September 21, 2025 10:01 pm
Three chances, no goal for Beier
After that, Maximilian Beier alone could have made the preliminary decision until the break. But the German international put a header over (34th), graduated from VfL goalkeeper Kamil Grabara (44.) and was still pushed off in a promising position in the penalty area (45.+1).
Overall, Dortmund deservedly, but without having a shocked, with a tour of the break. The BVB course also held course in round two – also because Wolfsburg lacked the playful means to become more active. The Niko Kovac team had no problems keeping control.
Dortmund at Coulier acios degree in luck
So it looked until the 58th minute when the guests showed themselves in front of the goal. After a long free kick from the left, Mohamed Amoura put a head across and Konstantinos Koulierakis splashed in. To Dortmund’s luck, the end of the Greek jumped to the bottom edge of the crossbar and then touched the goal line by centimeters, so that neither the referee’s clock triggered nor had the video assistant had anything.
Trainer Paul Simonis brought his prominent newcomer Christian Eriksen half an hour before the end and Wolfsburg became more active overall, but not more dangerous. The BVB caught the game again, only missed the preliminary decision. Felix Nmecha (75th) did not get a header after a Svensson corner. The otherwise accurate Serhou Guirassy (87th) also left his best chance of half -right.
In the end, in addition to the scoreboard, all other numbers (11: 6 shots, 4: 0 on the goal, 54 percent possession, 9: 3 corners) looked positive for Dortmund, so that the victory was not spectacular but absolutely deserved.
BVB in Mainz, Wolfsburg against Leipzig
Borussia Dortmund will start next Saturday (September 27, 2025, 3:30 p.m.) at the 1st FSV Mainz 05. VfL Wolfsburg receives RB Leipzig in parallel.