Updated: 21.10.202009:12
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Ex-Dortmunders sent Borussia to Loser Street and made a big false start – but RB Leipzig started with a home win.
Ironically, Ciro Immobile gave the supposed group favorite Borussia Dortmund a capital false start in the Champions League. With his goal to make it 1-0 (6th), the attacker, who was once retired from BVB after only one season, initiated the sobering 1: 3 (0: 2) defeat of the Bundesliga club at Lazio Rome. In front of 1000 spectators at the Stadio Olimpico, Luiz Felipe (23rd) and Jean-Daniel Akpa-Akpro (76th), who was alluded to by Immobile, scored the other goals for the Italians on Tuesday evening. This means that the Revierklub will be under pressure in the upcoming games against Zenit St. Petersburg (October 28) and at Club Bruges (November 4). Erling Haaland (7th) only met for the interim connection for BVB.
Because RB Leipzig started the new season of the Champions League with a convincing victory. The Saxons won 2-0 (2-0) against the Turkish champions Istanbul Basaksehir in front of 999 spectators. The Spaniard Angelino (16/20) scored for coach Julian Nagelsmann’s team. In Group H, the Bundesliga club also plays against heavyweights Paris Saint-Germain and Manchester United, who surprisingly won 2-1 in Paris yesterday.
Back to Dortmund: The shortage of personnel on the defensive, in which regular staff such as Manuel Akanji and Emre Can (red card suspension) were missing, turned out to be too big a burden. Not only in defense, but also in the build-up game, Borussia, who were indisposed for a long time, remained far behind their possibilities.
After just six minutes, BVB was behind. Because the Italians took advantage of a bad pass from Dortmund’s newcomer Thomas Meunier. After a pass from Joaquin Correa, Immobile demonstrated why he was Serie A top scorer last year. In the style of a real goalkeeper, he chipped the ball past Marwin Hitz, who again took on the goalkeeper Roman Bürki, who had since recovered from an infection.
The hit clearly had an effect at Borussia and played the counter-strong Romans splendidly in the cards. Bad passes en masse were an expression of growing uncertainty. This brought BVB further into need and gave the particularly motivated real estate (14th / 15th) two more options.
Just two minutes after Raphael Guerreiro (21st) had a great chance to equalize, who failed from close range to Lazio goalkeeper Thomas Strakosha, the Favre-Elf suffered the next setback. Luiz Felipe, who was surrounded by four Dortmunders, rose the highest after a corner and scored 2-0. The beginning of the end. (dpa / sid)
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