Bundesliga top game
Dortmund shocked VfB Stuttgart in stoppage time
Updated April 4, 2026 – 8:46 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
In an uneventful game, Dortmund failed to come up with anything offensively for 93 minutes in Stuttgart. Then BVB turns up the heat.
Karim Adeyemi and Julian Brandt led Borussia Dortmund to victory at VfB Stuttgart in a Bundesliga top game with few chances for a long time. In stoppage time, the two offensive players who came on as substitutes scored to make it 2-0 (0-0). When Dortmund had their first real chances to score (90+4 and 90+6), coach Niko Kovač’s team finally struck.
“They’re just ice cold, and we weren’t today,” said Stuttgart national striker Deniz Undav on Sky. “In a game like this it’s important to take advantage of the little moments.” And his team didn’t manage to do that despite their superiority in play. BVB goalkeeper Gregor Kobel admitted: “The two goals at the end were good.”
In the duel between the second in the table and the third, the top teams had previously offered the 60,000 spectators anything but an offensive spectacle. Dortmund had largely concentrated on defense, but are increasingly heading towards the next runner-up spot. They also extended their lead over VfB in the table to eleven points. The Westphalians had not been successful against Stuttgart in seven competitive matches in a row.
Given a dominant performance, the defeat is a missed opportunity for third-placed Stuttgart on their hoped-for route to the Champions League. The recently so accurate national striker Deniz Undav, whose role with national coach Julian Nagelsmann had dominated the headlines and topics of conversation, also failed to score this time and was rarely featured.
The hosts dictated the action from the start and for long stretches, but found it difficult to create promising scoring opportunities on offense. In the first half, coach Hoeneß’s team needed almost 20 minutes to become dangerous for the first time.
After Ramy Bensebaini lost the ball, clock setter Angelo Stiller didn’t finish well enough to overcome BVB keeper Gregor Kobel. Chris Führich’s attempt was then blocked. Führich was an asset on the left in the first half, but he didn’t reward his team for that either. His free kick from a promising position a quarter of an hour later flew over the goal, as did a shot from a corner shortly before half-time.
