Until the end, the game is on the Brink: In an intense game Borussia Dortmund against Bayer Leverkusen to give back a little air at the top of the Bundesliga.
DORTMUND – LEVERKUSEN 3:2 (2:1)
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Leaders Borussia Dortmund remain in the Bundesliga, three points ahead of the record Champions FC Bayern Munich. After five games without a win, the team of coach Lucien Favre won on Sunday evening in their home match against Bayer Leverkusen with 3:2 (2:1) and, in accordance with the 23. Round 54 points on the account. The day before also winning Bayern (1:0 against Hertha BSC) stay with the 51 counters tables-Second. Before 81.029 spectators in the Signal Iduna Park, Dan-Axel Zagadou (30 met. Minute), Jadon Sancho (38.) and Mario Götze (60.) to the hard-earned BVB victory over the previously best second round team from Leverkusen. For the guests, Kevin Volland (37.) and Jonathan Tah (75.) successfully.
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The final WHISTLE
90. Minute +5: Leverkusen comes more to the front. YELLOW CARD for JONATHAN TAH.
90. Minute, +4: a minute and a Half. Dortmund is now very a lot of time at the throw-in.
90. Minute +2: a Long Ball from Hradecky on Alario. Again corner for Leverkusen. The corner comes in and is cleared for a corner. The edge of the Leverkusen on Havertz is too long.
90. Minute +1: Five Minutes Of Added Time. Volland stops a counter attack for Dortmund, almost on the own corner flag. A Strong Sprint!
90. Minute: game exchange in DORTMUND: MARIUS WOLF replaces Paco Alcacer.
87. Min: Witsel has been in the battle with Tah hurt. The Belgians had stepped more to the Leverkusen front of the knee. Witsel can make.
86. Minute: Tah and Aranguiz stop the broken Alcacer. The Ball goes over to the free Bruun Larsen, but the warps.
83. Minute: game exchange in DORTMUND: MAHMOUD DAHOUD coming on for Götze. Weigl is the new captain for BVB.
79. Minute: referee Dingert must have a brief tussle between Aranguiz and Witsel simple.
78. Minute: Sancho must after a two-fight to be treated. A Foul but it was not.
76. Minute: game exchange in DORTMUND: Guerreiro makes JACOB BRUUN LARSEN place.
75. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for BAYER LEVERKUSEN by JONATHAN TAH. Brandt brings the free-kick as the edge feeling full for the long post, Tah heads, Bürki is still there, you can’t prevent the hit.
74. Minute: a YELLOW CARD against RAPHAEL GUERREIRO after a Foul on Weiser in the Penalty area.
73. Minute: Au weia! It was nothing at all! Volland thrashes the free-kick from a good Position 15 metres of it.
72. Minute: Again, saves Bürki the Two-goal lead, this Time brings Alario a head to the ball dangerously on goal.
70. Minute: game exchange in LEVERKUSEN: LUCAS ALARIO is coming for Bailey.
65. Minute: giant thing of Bürki against Bailey. The BVB Keeper saves with lightning reaction for a flight, you head to the ball of the Jamaican.
63. Minute: offside goal by PACO ALCACER? After a brief consultation with the video referee referee Dingert to decide: no goal.
60. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for BORUSSIA DORTMUND by MARIO GÖTZE. Jedvaj wants to a Hakimi-cross from the right with the head to clarify, Baumgartlinger fakes also unhappy. Central to the penalty area border, Gotze gets in a shot, doesn’t dither for long and puts the Ball unsustainable into the lower left corner.
59. Minute: YELLOW CARD for TIN JEDVAJ, the Ball throw it all away, because he’s a throw-in wanted to have.
57. Minute: Two corners in a row from Aranguiz bring no danger.
56. Minute: Bailey sees right outside three Dortmund. The Jamaican takes out a corner.
54. Minute: Leverkusen countered following a BVB corner. Hakimi speaks at the end in front of Brandt for a throw.
51. Minute: Volland is on the right through and penetrates into the penalty area. There he is cleared fairly. Not a whistle, not a Protest. Everything is flawless!
49. Minute: Brandt wants to Jedvaj on the wing send, but the Dortmund defense leg is in between. After the throw-in from the flank and Diallo comes to me Aranguiz.
46. Minute: It goes without the need to change on both sides.
Mid-term break
45. Minute +2: Bad Pass Hradecky. Gotze intercepts the Ball and puts on Paco Alcacer. The Spaniard shoots. Deflected, there is again a corner. This time, Hradecky is on the Post.
45. Minute: Hradecky catches a cross from Diallo safe. Two Minutes Of Added Time.
44. Minute: a safe corner of the Leverkusen. The Standards of the air self still significantly upwards.
38. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for BORUSSIA DORTMUND by JADON SANCHO. In the case of a cross from the left by Diallo Jedvaj by jumps under the Ball and allows you to Sancho as a wonder goal volley shot into the far corner.
37. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for BAYER LEVERKUSEN by KEVIN VOLLAND. With a double one-two pass with Havertz Volland plays in position for a shot and draws from 18 metres. The Ball fits into the lower-right corner of the net.
36. Minute: Inspired by the leadership of the BVB suddenly ten meters in the front and acts braver than before.
33. Minute: another Chance for BVB: Sancho in the mid-back, and Alcacer shoots over the bar.
30. Minute: ⚽ GOAL for BORUSSIA DORTMUND by DAN-AXEL ZAGADOU. BVB beats a corner in, the Ball comes free in five minutes down and Zagadou and dust from four yards.
29. Minute: Tah rescue with a pike jump in the last second against Weigl. The Bayer defender blocks the shot of Weigl from nine metres, with the thigh back.
28. Minute: Sancho sits on the right side against Bender and comes to a conclusion. Hradecky dives and buries the Ball safely.
25. Minute: Havertz verstolpert the Ball, the leather is left over to Bailey, the 18-meters directly on top of the skin, but the Ball goes wide to the right.
23. Minute: the next statements, again, just to the left in the past. Again, Brandt had driven the Ball to the front, flank, Bailey, and at the end of a volley of Havertz rotation from 17 meters.
20. Minute: There is the first good opportunity: Brandt is in the 16er, fits on a Bender and shoots from 15 meters. Deflected, Corner. That was a close one.
19. Minute: Leverkusen controlled the Ball and thus the game. Great opportunities but still have to wait.
15. Minute: The corners of the Leverkusen remain weak. Six men are standing around with a shot on the feet, and Bailey hits the Ball high and far over the sixteen meters across space to the touchline.
13. Minute: counter attack on Brandt, right out. With a little luck, Havertz comes to the Ball and shoots. Witsel blocks the shot.
10. Min: The first corner of Leverkusen is of Bürki weggefaustet.
8. Minute: Bailey continues to dribble to the left, but it remains to Hakimi hang.
3. Minute: The guests almost always have the Ball and let him run. Dortmund is in the back and lurks. Havertz is the first shot from distance, but the attempt goes over it.
Kick-off
At 17:56: Shortly before the kickoff, a look at the statistics: In the last three home games against the werkself celebrated the BVB in each case, a clear success: 4:0, 6:2 and 3:0 was at the end. The first leg in Leverkusen ended with a 4:2 victory for Dortmund, although Leverkusen was first with 2:0 in leadership. Today, there is a similar spectacle? We will see it.
At 17:53: “I look forward to getting back in this stadium, the Fans again, the Yellow wall, but also, of course, the staff and the players, in my time there were,” said Bosz at the press conference for the game. The Coach has rotated, otherwise, reluctantly, changed his starting line-up in comparison to the Europa League at three positions: Tin Jedvaj, Julian Baumgartlinger and Sven Bender slides for Wendell, Lucas Alario and Aleksandar Dragovic on the Team.
At 17:50: A special game is the game for visiting coach Peter Bosz. At the beginning of last season, the Dutchman still chief in Dortmund, started at a furious pace, yielded no results and was discharged in December 2017 at BVB. In Leverkusen In his Bundesliga-balance-sheet yet as good as flawless: five games, four victories. However, the work has shown the League against Krasnodar self in the Europa on Thursday once again, your “second face”. How is it today in Dortmund?
At 17:48: BVB-captain Marco Reus is still not fit and is missing the Black-and-Yellow. Coach Lucien Favre, therefore, relies on this starting lineup:
At 17:46: draw in Frankfurt, Cup-Out against Bremen, just a 3:3 after 3:0 lead against Hoffenheim, the swatter in the Champions League with Tottenham and most recently a 0:0 in Nürnberg – BVB has been waiting five games for a victory. In the Bundesliga table, FC Bayern is since yesterday again. Borussia Dortmund in the all-important home match against Bayer Leverkusen back in the lead?
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