Dynamo Dresden spoiled Fortuna Düsseldorf’s coach Markus beginning’s return to his old place of work and celebrated his first home win of the season with a 2-1 (1-0) win in the 2nd Bundesliga. Vincent Vermeij scored the decisive goal against his old teammates.
After nine games in a row without a win, Dynamo Dresden got their first three-pointer last week, and their first home win of the season follows against Fortuna Düsseldorf on matchday 14. Alexander Rossipal shot the hosts into the lead with the half-time whistle (45th minute), before Vincent Vermeij sent his former club further into the bottom of the table with his second goal of the season (53rd).
Dresden’s Rossipal and Vermeij ensure their second win in a row
Christian Rasmussen scored the goal in the 84th minute, but was unable to avert the seventh defeat of the season. With this success, the Saxons celebrate their second win in a row and thus leave the relegation zone. The only downer was the late injury to goalkeeper Lennart Grill, who had to be carried off the field.
After just under eight minutes, the fans in the Rudolf Harbig Stadium saw more than just passing relays in midfield for the first time. Dresden with a cross from the left side, Düsseldorf’s Jesper Daland headed straight into the feet of striker Vermeij, who then missed clearly from around 20 meters. When things got dangerous again, 37 minutes had already been played. Vermeij extended to Jakob Lemmer, but the offensive player was clearly offside when he supposedly scored the opening goal.
Dresden was lucky when Itten’s header hit the post
To date, the guests have had no real chance to score. Then Cedric Itten headed onto the post out of nowhere after a Muslija cross – luck for Dynamo. But Fortuna’s chance seemed to have given the Saxons additional power in the final phase of the first half. Konrad Faber was able to cross unchallenged on the right side, Daland was again unlucky in his attempt to clear the ball in the center, so Rossipal (45th) was able to net with a dropkick at the second post.
After the half-time score was 1-0, the hosts were the more active team even after the restart. First Lemmer (50th) tested Kastenmeier, four minutes later the goalkeeper was powerless against Vermeij. Niklas Hauptmann beat several Düsseldorf players with an elegant solo and passed it across from the left to the onrushing Vermeij. The ex-Düsseldorfer missed the first contact, but got the ball over the line in his second attempt (54th).
The long-awaited home win: celebrations from Vincent Vermeij and Konrad Faber
Lemmer was even able to make it 3-0 three minutes later, but missed the counterattack from eleven meters. Afterwards, Fortuna coach tried to bring new offensive power with two changes (63′). Five minutes later things actually got dangerous. The previously unoccupied Grill could only let a cross from the left side bounce forward, and the ball ended up directly at Sima Suso, who shot just over the goal from ten meters.
Düsseldorf’s Rasmussen takes care of that with his head Connection hit
Particularly unfortunate: Teammate Itten deflected the ball decisively. Afterwards, the guests continued to try to keep things close, but the Düsseldorfers couldn’t come up with much offensively. The promoted team repeatedly caused danger through counterattacks, but in the final quarter of an hour they limited themselves primarily to managing their lead. In the 85th minute, Düsseldorf scored through substitute Christian Rasmussen. Itten brought the ball into the penalty area from the right, where Rasmussen scored with a header.
In the final phase the guests threw everything forward. Kastenmaier acted as an assist provider and repeatedly brought long crosses into the Dresden penalty area. In the third minute of injury time, Rasmussen had a great chance to equalize, but the Dane missed from a promising position.
Dynamo goalkeeper Grill appears to be seriously injured
Regular stoppage time had actually already ended when Grill apparently injured his knee while running out and had to be carried off the field. The 26-year-old was replaced by outfield player Aljaz Casar as the home team’s substitution quota had already been exhausted. After twelve minutes, referee Lukas Benen whistled off the game and Dresden cheered loudly.
Dresden in Kaiserslautern, Düsseldorf against Schalke
Dresden travels to 1. FC Kaiserslautern on Saturday lunchtime (1 p.m.). Düsseldorf will be guests at Schalke 04 on Friday evening (6.30 p.m.).