Playful championship, four times no victory – the 1st FSV Mainz 05 was the fear opponent of Borussia Dortmund. On Sunday (03/30/2025), BVB also achieved a small revenge for two perfect corner balls by Nico Schlotterbeck in the Bundesliga 3-1 (2-0). Emre Can (42nd minute) and Maximilian Beier (71st), who had already hit 1-0 (40th), used his templates.
Since May 27, 2023, BVB has been in a non -satisfactory situation in the Bundesliga – and now there has been a duel in his own stadium against the opponent, who had given him so much grief with Nachhall at the time. Mainz had hidden the master celebration almost two years ago with a 2-2, now the 05s came to the Borussia as a champions League candidate, who would be happy to be again.
Adeyemi takes over at BVB for Guiaassy – also as a scorer
The hosts had to do without their top scorer Serhou Guirassy at short notice, for him Karim Adeyemi stormed in the center. But for the first time it became really dangerous in the Dortmund penalty area. After a mistake by Can, Yan Couto had to save Lee at the last moment before the start of the shot (10th). Overall, Mainz had the significantly better play area – but also luck with a referee decision.
After 20 minutes, Andreas Hanche -Olsen moved into the hoe far away from the ball in his own penalty area – unintentionally, but quite a penalty, but the whistle failed. But luck came back. A half -field flank by Julian Brandt landed by accident at Adeyemi, who only kept the overview in front of the goal and put on Beier, who pushed into the empty goal for 1-0 (40th).
Dortmund’s can uses Surprise moment with Schlotterbeck
And it only took a few seconds, when black and yellow cheered again. Schlotterbeck surprisingly appeared as a new corner shooter and hit the ball onto the second post, where Can prevailed and took advantage of a positional error by Mainz goalkeeper Robin Zentner (42nd). The BVB successfully processed its 05 trauma in a very short time.
Including the final championship in May 2023, BVB had only scored two points from the past four league apartments against Mainz, and most recently received two clear defeat (including 1: 3 in the first round). Thanks to the lightning doubles, such a scenario did not threaten this time, the BVB also benefited that Mainz continued to look dangerous, but lost the thread in the crucial moments in front of the goal.
Schlotterbeck also serves Beier perfectly
The exception was a scene in which Gregor Kobel could then show his class. The BVB keeper parried outstandingly against Silvan Widmer and Paul Nebel within a few seconds, then Canath blocked a further march of Jonathan Burkardt (60th). The referee team decided on the sidelines, but the goal would have counted if it had not been prevented by Kobel.
Then Zentner also had his big appearance. Adeyemi ran freely for the goalkeeper, who stood up the left arm and kept the left arm from 0: 3 (71.). But that followed immediately because Schlotterbeck shone for the second time as a successful corner priority – this time Beier nodded his cross (72nd). This trick, which DFB defenders convert to the standard shooter, turned out to be an outstanding decision.
BVB coach Kovac had the corner idea
“This was indicated during the week, the coach said that he would like to shoot the corners. They came very well in training and today they also came relatively well, so that we could score two goals. That was simply crucial today because you sometimes make the games with standards. I am really happy”said Schlotterbeck in the Sportschau interview.
Fog then made a Mainz sense of achievement (76th), which was too late. Through the defeat, the 05s lost third place on this matchday, which Eintracht Frankfurt took over 1-0 against VfB Stuttgart the day before. Meanwhile, BVB has shortened the gap to European places, is now four points behind the sixth in the table in Leipzig.
“We are in the race. We now have to see that we get as many points as possible, and then I hope that in the end we have the best possible placement”said Schlotterbeck, who is initially closed after his fifth yellow card. “It was really a big point for us. We have to step on the gas, then we have another chance”said Kovac in the sports show.
Dortmund in Freiburg, Mainz against Kiel
Dortmund wants to take the next step towards Europe next Saturday (05.04.2025, 3:30 p.m.) at SC Freiburg. Mainz plays against Holstein Kiel at the same time.