Jobe Bellingham pulled a fresh shirt over his sweaty upper body and then took a strong sip from the water bottle.
In the midday heat of Cincinnati, Borussia Dortmund also won the first win at the club World Cup thanks to the newcomer to the star and opened the goal to the round of 16. Bellingham (45th minute) hit the first BVB start against the South African series master Malmodi Sundowns for the meantime – but in the end the favorite Bundesliga club was still trembling in the 4: 3 (3: 1).
“We certainly didn’t make the best game today, but that wasn’t possible,” said BVB coach Niko Kovac at DAZN with a view to the difficult conditions: “I didn’t do anything, I was only on the outer line and sweat as if I came out of the sauna.” It was “certainly not everything round,” added Kovac, “but I don’t care – we won.”
In addition to Bellingham, Felix Nmecha (16th) and Serhou Guirassy (34th) also met against the club from Pretoria. Sundowns defense player Khuliso Mudau (59th) undertook an own goal. Lucas Ribeiro (11th) had made Malmodi in the lead in front of 14:006. IQRAAM Rayners (62nd) and Lebo Mothiba (90th) shortened in the second half for the outsider.
At well over 30 degrees Celsius at 12 noon local time, both teams made an unusually large number of mistakes at a leisurely pace that BVB used a little better. After four points from two games, Dortmund will again play in Cincinnati against HD Ulsan from South Korea at the end of the preliminary round on Wednesday (9:00 p.m./SAT.1 and DAZN).
BVB substitute stayed in the cabin in the heat
Kovac reacted to the tired 0: 0 at the start of Rio de Janeiro. Karim Adeyemi, Julian Rerson and Marcel Sabitzer rotated from the team and curiously stayed in the cabin. In view of the violent midday heat, the BVB substitute players did not pursue the game from the player bank, which was positioned in the blazing sun.
“We have to get people in who can also handle the weather,” Kovac said before the game. However, this only partially worked. The Yan Couto, who came into play for Rerson for around 25 million euros from Manchester United, took his chance inadequate. Again and again the Brazilian made position errors and sloppy bad passes.
In his first game, Bellingham, on the other hand, repeatedly indicated for Dortmund the great reinforcement of the 19 -year -old Englishman. Shortly before the half-time whistle, the Adeyemi replacement also achieved the preliminary decision with its 3-1. The brother of former BVB professional Jude Bellingham came from Sunderland for a good 30 million euros.
Extremely a large number of mistakes on both sides
And NMECHA, who replaced Sabitzer, brought BVB back into the game after a quarter of an hour. However, he also benefited from an incredible goat by the South African national keeper Ronwen Williams, who had played the ball into the foot without need.
From that moment on, a lot ran in favor of the Westphalia, who themselves were lucky that the team from Pretoria could not really take advantage of the many defense carvers of the Dortmund. After a good half an hour, Guirassy brought BVB into the lead for the first time after the measure of Julian Brandt.
In the leadership of the South Africans, Ribeiro used a bad mistake from Waldemar Anton and then sprinted away Ramy Bensebaini, who grown into the void.
After the change, the game was almost decided by Daniel Svensson by the flank deflected by Mudau into its own network. But the two goals in the second half brought tension again.
Cincinnati (dpa-Afx)
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