Dortmund / Frankfurt. Borussia Dortmund won the top game of the first match day in the Bundesliga with confidence. Against Borussia Mönchengladbach in front of 9,300 spectators an ultimately safe 3-0 success was achieved. The goals for BVB were scored by the only 17-year-old Giovanni Reyna after preparatory work by Jude Bellingham of the same age (35th), while Erling Haaland, who was only 20 years old, increased the penalty to 2-0 (54th) and made a counterattack with the 3-0 finally everything was clear (78th).
“That was a nice start, but we are still far from the maximum,” said Mats Hummels after the successful start to the season – and continued: “We have a bunch of good footballers. If we get that in the right shape, then we’ll be a top team. “
BVB sports director Michael Zorc played down possible claims to the title before the game. “It is legitimate for individual players to have great ambitions. Bayern Munich is currently the best team in Europe and therefore in the world. You saw that again yesterday, “he said on Sky, alluding to Bayern’s 8-0 triumph the night before against Schalke.” It’s very difficult to get ahead of it in the course of the season. You have to be so sober about that. That doesn’t mean we’re not ambitious. We want to achieve the best. “It is” impressive and also exemplary for us “the greed with which the Munich team were back on the field after a week of team training.
Previously, Arminia Bielefeld celebrated an unexpectedly strong comeback in the upper house of football with a 1-1 draw at Eintracht Frankfurt after a break in the Bundesliga for 4,137 days. In front of 6,500 spectators on Saturday, Cebio Soukou brought the newly promoted player into the lead in the 51st minute, which André Silva was able to equalize after a good hour.
Bielefeld’s head coach Uwe Neuhaus starts the Bundesliga season with a 1-1 draw in Frankfurt. © dpa / Arne Dedert
“It was a nice fight until the last second,” said Neuhaus at Sky, but he wasn’t entirely satisfied: “I’m a little annoyed about the missed chance to make it 2-0. When Fabian Klos’ pass arrives, Sokou runs to the gate alone. In return, we get the 1: 1. Welcome to the Bundesliga, that’s usually the case. ”
With the partial success, Uwe Neuhaus celebrated a successful first division debut as head coach. The 60-year-old was already an assistant coach at Borussia Dortmund from 1998 to 2004, and became German champion in 2002 with BVB as Matthias Sammer’s assistant. After a season at Rot-Weiß Essen, Neuhaus worked successfully for Union Berlin for seven years, his former club botched the start of the new season with a 1: 3 against FC Augsburg in their own stadium “An der alten Försterei”.
Neuhaus, who became a coach at Dynamo Dresden in 2015 and led the Black and Yellows into the second division, has been working for Arminia since December 2018 and made it to the Bundesliga in his first full season with Bielefeld.
In Frankfurt, the newcomer got the first point, making it 1-1 in the last minutes of the game with fighting spirit, cleverness and a little luck. (dpa, SZ)
The results of the 1st match day in the Bundesliga:
Eintracht Frankfurt – Arminia Bielefeld 1: 1 (0: 0)
Union Berlin – FC Augsburg 1:3 (0:1)
1.FC Cologne – TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 2: 3 (1: 2)
Werder Bremen – Hertha BSC 1: 4 (0: 2)
VfB Stuttgart – SC Freiburg 2: 3 (0: 2)
Bayern Munich – Schalke 04 8: 0 (3: 0)
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Borussia Dortmund – Borussia Mönchengladbach 3: 0 (1: 0)
RB Leipzig – FSV Mainz So., 15.30
VfL Wolfsburg – Bayer Leverkusen Sun., 6 p.m.
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