Borussia Dortmund 1 - 0 Werder Bremen
Dortmund scorers: Julian Brandt (67’)
Venue: Signal-Iduna Park, Dortmund, Germany
Referee: Dr. Felix Brych
| Starting XI | Notes | Subs | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gregor Kobel | Alexander Meyer | ||
| Mats Hummels | Nilkas Süle | ||
| Nico Schlotterbeck | Ramy Bensebaini | 62’ | |
| Marius Wolf | 62’ | Salih Özcan | |
| Julian Ryerson | Giovanni Reyna | 62’ | |
| Felix Nmecha | 44’ | Marcel Sabitzer | 76’ |
| Emre Can | Karim Adeyemi | 89’ | |
| Marco Reus | 62’ | Sébastien Haller | 76’ |
| Donyell Malen | 76’ | Jamie Bynoe-Gittens | |
| Julian Brandt | 67’ 89’ | ||
| Niklas Füllkrug | 77’ |
Manager: Edin Terzić (Germany)
| Starting XI | Notes | Subs | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michael Zetterer | Spyros Angelidis | ||
| Marco Friedl | Senne Lynen | 69’ | |
| Miloš Veljković | 83’ | Christian Groß | |
| Anthony Jung | 87’ | Felix Agu | |
| Mitchell Weiser | Nicolai Rapp | ||
| Olivier Deman | 90+4’ | Justin Njinmah | 69’ |
| Leonardo Bittencourt | 61’ 69’ | Leon Opitz | |
| Jens Stage | 75’ | Rafael Santos Borré | 87’ |
| Romano Schmid | 81’ | Nick Woltemade | 81’ |
| Dawid Kownacki | 69’ | ||
| Marvin Ducksch |
Manager: Ole Werner (Germany)
1’: We’re off!
6’: SAVE! Zetterer punches away a shot from Malen.
7’: Marius Wolf’s glancing header drifts wide of the far post.
12’: Reus puts his shot over the bar.
14’: Bittencourt’s header for Werder Bremen goes over.
17’: Ducksch fires a curler towards the top corner from wide, but it goes high and wide.
24’: SAVE! Ryerson skims one to the far side from distance, forcing a diving save from Zetterer.
27’: Bittencourt might have gotten away with a foul in the box, but it would have been pretty soft.
32’: SO CLOSE! Reus gets his shot past the keeper at the near post but it just misses the far corner by a whisker!
39’: Oh, a mishit from Malen! Malen has an open net to hit but the cross comes in behind him, he manages to reach backwards and hit it at goal but it’s a looping shot easily caught by the keeper.
44’: Felix Nmecha slides into Kownacki
45’: Malen denied! A big hit by him, but blocked away to safety by Zetterer’s outstretched arm.
HT Borussia Dortmund 0-0 Werder Bremen Dortmund looks frustrated!
46’: We’re back! There’s some flares going off in the away section, and some smoke obscuring the camera.
53’: Malen tries a volley from wide! But he mishits it past the far post.
59’: Ooh a shot deflects off Schlottereck towards goal! Fortunately the spin on the ball slows it down and allows Kobel to claim it.
61’: Leonardo Bittencourt clips Malen from behind
62’: Dortmund double sub: Ramy Bensebaini and Giovanni Reyna on for Marco Reus and Marius Wolf
67’: GOAL DORTMUND!! Julian Brandt gets an incisive pass through the sleeping defense! Puts it in one-on-one past the helpless keeper!
69’: Bremen double sub: Senne Lynen and Justin Njinmah on for Leonardo Bittencourt and Dawid Kownacki
75’: Jens Stage slides into Nmecha
76’: Dortmund substitution: Sébastien Haller and Marcel Sabitzer on for Donyell Malen and Niklas Füllkrug
81’: Bremen substitution: Nick Woltemade on for Romano Schmid
83’: Milos Veljković commits the foul, ref plays advantage but Nmecha’s shot goes over.
87’: Bremen substitution: Rafael Santos Borré on for Anthony Jung
89’: Dortmund substitution: Karim Adeyemi on for Julian Brandt
90+3’: Reyna’s really going here in stoppage time. He gets a chance after a lot of work, but puts it over.
90+4’: Olivier Deman picks up a late card.
FT Borussia Dortmund 1-0 Werder Bremen For the moment, Dortmund are top of the table!
What changed for Dortmund this season?
Nothing. We usually start strong, slump in the middle of the season, and then have a strong finish in the top 4
Under Terzic its honestly mainly been sicknesses and injuries that has caused slumps. With fitness he has a superb ppg and we fight better than ages. Even if the wins and games can be really ugly at times
Do you mean what changed from last season or what changed from earlier this season?
From last season nothing at all changed we got good results then too.
If you’re talking about the reactions to our games earlier this season, all that happened to get us back in form was just giving the coach and players more time to gel, get fit, and get in form. The panic earlier on seemed to be a major and premature overreaction.
Starting Reus and Fullkrug
I think that falls into the coaching aspect and figuring out in time who is currently the best option. Btw, shoutout Terzic his resume with Dortmund is already strong and it will only get stronger as he grows.
To be fair, it’s well possible that the 4 points you guys dropped against relegation candidates Bochum and Heidenheim are gonna cost you at the end of the season.
It reminds me heavily of how you lost 2:3 against Bremen, at home, after leading 2:0 until the 90th minute last season. Back then, everyone was saying “what a fuckup, inb4 this costs you the title”. And in the end, that’s exactly what happened.
Points are gonna be dropped at some point regardless. It’s not the Bremen or even the Stuttgart game that cost us the title last year, it was only the Mainz game.
I say that because anything else is alternate history, maybe we win against Bremen and end up closer to the top in January, but then we go on an incosistent run instead of the great run of results in the ruckrunde. Or maybe we win against Stuttgart, but then fuck up against Wolfsburg or Augsburg due to pressure/overconfidence.
So applying your logic, the ref in the Bochum game lost Dortmund the title.
With a title race which was decided by GD, any single point could have swung it. The ref decision in the Bochum game was a travesty, but it’s to be expected to be on the receiving end of such a decision over the course of a whole season. I’m focusing on the points dropped which were your own fault, where you had your fate in your own hands and just dropped the ball.