Edin Terzic’s men add their tenth victory in 2023 against Leipzig and momentarily assault the lead
The Negriamarillos surpass their record for league victories at the beginning of the year, which dated back to 2012, when they were proclaimed champions
Borussia Dortmund reached the leadership of the Bundesligawaiting for what Bayern does this Saturday, at defeat RB Leipzig 2-1 for their tenth consecutive victory.
DATA SHEET
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LINEUPS
Borussia Dortmund
Meyer; Wolf, Sule, Schlotterbeck, Ryerson; Can, Bellingham, Özcan (Dahoud, 82′); Brandt (Hummels, 82′), Marco Reus (Bynoe-Gittens, 73′) and Haller (Modeste, 72′).
RB Leipzig
Blaswich; Halstenberg (Raum, 60′), Gvardiol, Orban (Simakan, 72′), Henrichs; Nkunku (Werner, 83′), Haidara (Kampl, 83′), Schlager, Szobozlai; Forsberg and André Silva (Poulsen, 72′).
goals
1-0 M.20 Marco Reus, penalty. 2-0 M.38 Can. 2-1 M.73 Forsberg.
Referee
Sven Jablonski. TA: Özcan (29′), Brandt (55′) / Nkunku (15′), Haidara (17′), Halstenberg (37′), André Silva (45+1′) and Henrichs (51′).
Leipzig had a better start and in the first ten minutes generated three good goal chances. The first, in minute 4, when at the last minute Niko Schlotterbeck managed to avoid Christopher Nkunku’s shot.
Shortly after, Dominik Szobolszlai tried with a strong shot from outside the area that went to the body of goalkeeper Alex Meyer, and in minute 7 Nkunku was able to score, but, after getting rid of Emre Can inside the area, he finished off badly.
Later, against a Leipzig that pressed up, Dortmund began to see themselves in the opposite half. Their weapons were balls that sought to overcome Leipzig’s last defensive line.
in the 13th minute gave notice through Julian Brandt. The ball ended up in the net, but the goal it was annulled by VAR because the ball had bounced off a forearm from Brandt after a chest check.
In another attempt, a pass from Marius Wolf found Marco Reus, who was knocked down by the goalkeeper Janis Blaswich when he was going to finish off. The penalty, in the 21st minute, Reus himself converted it to put Dortmund ahead.
After twenty dizzying minutes, with great intensity on the part of both teams, the game calmed down a bit. Dortmund seemed to withdraw to defend in an orderly fashion and leave the ball to Leipzig, who in minute 35 had a great chance at the feet of Marcel Halstenberg to cross from Emile Forsberg.
At 36′ there was another compromising situation for Dortmund when Szoboszlai got across in an attempt to clear from Meyer. The ball bounced off him and went wide. However, although Leipzig seemed to control the game, Dortmund got the second goal before the break.
In one of his few advances in that phase there was a foul on the left wing. Brandt’s shot was cleared by the Leipzig defense, but the rebound went to Can, who scored with a shot from the crescent in the 39th minute..
insufficient 2-1
The second half continued with the same dynamic, with Dortmund retreating and defending in an orderly and Leipzig trying to find spaces. And in the end he ended up finding them.
In the first minutes only a André Silva’s deflected shot, in 48, was a warning. Dortmund was close to the third goal with a shot from Reus in the 67th minute against which Blaswich reacted with a great savebut Leipzig’s arrivals became more frequent.
At minute 69, Meyer saved his team with a good save against a point-blank shot from André Silva and in 71 a shot from szoboszlai came out slightly off.
Finally the 2-1 came, in minute 74, through Forsberg, who defined Tobias Raum’s cross from an empty goal.
The game remained open practically until the last second. at minute 94 Schlotterbeck saved a goal over the line after Timo Werner’s shot that he had already surpassed Meyer, and in minute 95′ Meyer himself saved a strong volley from Forsberg.