Dortmund slip to defeat at Gladbach with out Haaland, Reus

Borussia Monchengladbach highlighted Borussia Dortmund’s reliance on two of its star gamers because it suffered a 1-0 loss to its Bundesliga rival within the return of former Gladbach coach Marco Rose on Saturday.

Dortmund had been with out prime scoring what Thaaland mentioned was on account of “muscle problems” and a knee harm to captain Reuss. Haaland was concerned in 11 straight objectives from Dortmund’s first 5 Bundesliga video games, whereas Reus made 4 units and scored one.

The guests discovered they might not get replaced, though Mahmoud Dahoud’s comeback efforts within the first half had been additionally hampered.

“Many, many others were also missing,” mentioned Dortmund captain Mats Hummels. “You can tell we lacked that cutting edge. Without Julian (Brandt), without Gio (Reyna).”

Gladbach’s followers offered a heat ambiance for Rose since their first return to the membership, since their acrimonious swap between groups. He displayed a banner accusing his former hero of figuring out himself with the membership and making “false promises”.

Dennis Zakaria’s Thirty seventh-minute aim was sufficient for Gladbach’s second win in six video games to ease the stress on Rose’s successor, Adi Hutter.

It was clear from the beginning that not solely had been three factors at stake, with former Dortmund gamers Jonas Hoffmann and Jude Bellingham flaring up throughout the first minute.

The first half was a troublesome struggle with few possibilities at both finish, and a fortunate goal for Zakaria.

Rafael Guerreiro might clear solely half of Lars Stindl’s cross, and Zakaria benefited from a deflection of kinds from Bellingham earlier than passing Swiss compatriot Gregor Kobel within the Dortmund aim.

It obtained worse for Dortmund three minutes later when Dahoud caught American defender Joe Scali with a late problem and was proven a second yellow card for his response when referee Deniz Aytekin blew it for a foul.

“For me it was about a lack of respect,” Aytekin mentioned.

Kobel stored Gladbach at bay within the second half, though Thorgan Hazard nearly claimed the late equalizer when he superior in harm time.

Leipzig Marsh Comes Through

American coach Jesse Marsh was not nervous when Leipzig misplaced three and received solely one in every of their opening 5 Bundesliga video games. Marsh mentioned the outcomes had been nonetheless a while away.

That wait got here to an finish on Saturday when Leipzig humiliated Hertha Berlin 6-0 and eventually relieved the stress after beginning the season towards a number of powerful rivals. Marsh’s group went on to lose within the league towards Mainz, Wolfsburg and Bayern Munich, earlier than dropping 6–3 to Manchester City within the Champions League.

“I always believed in the team and remained optimistic,” Marsh mentioned. “But when you will have that a lot high quality within the group it’s straightforward to stay optimistic. It wasn’t an optimum begin to the season however we simply stored working. We have not but, however at present we confirmed how effectively we will play.”

Christopher Nkunku threw the ball over Hertha’s goalkeeper within the sixteenth minute, then arrange Yusuf Poulsen for second for Leipzig within the twenty third minute. A aim from Lukas Klostermann was aborted as Leipzig scored 9 makes an attempt for the guests, earlier than Nordi Mükile made it 3–0 in harm time within the first half.

There was no layup for Hertha as Emil Forsberg transformed a penalty on the hour mark, and Nkunku scored from a free kick within the seventieth. Amadou Haidara accomplished the route seven minutes later.

The win would have taken the stress off Marsh and put it on Hertha counterpart Pal Dardai, who has already confronted criticism from inside his membership this season.

Leipzig mentioned American midfielder Tyler Adams missed the match on account of a muscle drawback.

younger star

Florian Wirtz’s second-half strike was sufficient for Bayer Leverkusen to beat Mainz 1-0. It additionally ensured that Wirtz turned the youngest participant at 18 years, 145 days_ to succeed in 10 objectives within the Bundesliga. He took the document from Lukas Podolski, who reached 10 objectives for Cologne in 18 years, 363 days on May 22, 2004.

Cologne drew Eintracht Frankfurt 1–1, Hoffenheim got here from behind to beat Wolfsburg 3–1 within the guests’ first loss, and Kevin Behrens scored within the 88th to provide Union Berlin a late 1–0 victory. Got it Armenia Bielefeld.