The last summer to Borussia Dortmund pushed Axel Witsel takes the Bundesliga leaders in the game at RB Leipzig to a successful back round start. The Belgian hits and lets the bird fly.
Axel Witsel cheered in Leipzig, as he cheers when he scores a hit. With his hands he formed a bird. His father, who came from the Caribbean island of Martinique, was a big Fan of the French national team and striker Nicolas Anelka, Witsel, once explained. Anelka had slipped in to his gates with this gesture. Therefore, he had eventually started, Witsel, “the bird that grows and flies”.
In the Bundesliga round start, the 30-year-old Belgian, grew beyond themselves and made sure that Borussia Dortmund will fly further in the direction of the championship. After a corner in the 19th century. Minute, the midfielder gold stand properly and hammered the Ball from eight meters under the crossbar of the Leipzig gate. It remained the only goal of the Night, the BVB won 1:0 (1:0). Not only because of this decisive action the Dortmunder thanked him after the final whistle in the case of Witsel.
No Chance for Leipzig’s goalkeeper Peter Gulacsi, the Ball is in
In the Reus role hatched
On Friday captain and playmaker Marco Reus was snapped in Training. The outstanding players of the BVB in the first half of the season could not arrive in Leipzig – just as little as the injured defender Manuel Akanji, Ömer Toprak and Dan-Axel Zagadou. In the back coach Lucien gave Favre Julian Weigl and Abdou Diallo confidence. In midfield, the responsibility for the creative moments on Witsel weighed in the absence of Reus. And the Belgian national team player, was only changed in the last summer, by the Chinese Association, Tianjin Quanjian to Dortmund, solved its task outstanding. Even when Lukas Piszczek was wearing instead of Reus, the captain’s armband, was Witsel, the leaders and thinkers of the Dortmund game.
To separate from the Ball
When the BVB started his lightning-fast attacks, was Witsel, which is hardly to separate from the Ball to get involved with. Again and again, the midfield player, the one they call in his home because of his quiet and mellow playing style “Chaloupe” (sloop) has sent, with his precise, the striker Maximilian Philipp and Mario Götze passes steep. And was to the point, if there was a fire in the Defensive, where the glossy just had goalkeeper Roman Bürki and his front people against the agile Leipzig attacker a lot of work.
“Good work done”
“We knew it was going to be a very tough game,” said match-winner Witsel after the final whistle. “Leipzig has a lot of pressure, but we started very well in the game. We are very happy because we wanted this victory. Today, we have already done good work, next week it goes on.” Then Dortmund in the home match against Hannover 96 must defend the six-point lead on the resurgent tracker and title-holders FC Bayern. So much is certain – on Witsel can leave BVB. He drops the bird he wears as a Tattoo on the chest, then it can not fly, if it hits.