Stuttgart proved in the Champions League at the Bernabeu that despite defeat they are a great team. And on Sunday they steamrolled over Borussia Dortmund. Nuri Sahin’s team melted like a sugar cube in their visit to the Mercedes Benz Arena in Stuttgart.
Undav, who continues to be in top form after scoring at Real Madrid, opened the scoring against Dortmund very early on. It was the 4th minute. A goal that was the beginning and the end for Dortmund. A burst of momentum that exposed the weakness of the yellows. Hoeness’s men had little opposition. Sahin’s men, who shone in the Champions League against Bruges (0-3), did not have their best day in a difficult visit to Stuttgart. Demirovic made it 2-0 in the 20th minute and foreshadowed that what the locals showed all last season in the Bundesliga and how they pushed Real Madrid in the Champions League was not a one-hit wonder. It was not a mirage. This Stuttgart is a great team and has the potential to do important things in the short-medium term.
In the second half Dortmund tried to react, but they were met with the hammer blow of Millot’s 3-0 lead. Guirassy did find the net, fulfilling the former’s law. A goal that gave Dortmund a chance, which dreamed of a comeback, but Stuttgart was blessed today. Bilal Touré, in his first goal with the red club’s shirt, was the one in charge of bringing the yellows back to earth. To complete the rout, the German Undav completed his double with another killer goal. A statement of authority from Stuttgart, which is positioned as the alternative to Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen.
Leipzig is going downhill
Still reeling from their Champions League defeat at the Civitas Metropolitano against Atlético Madrid, Leipzig were unable to win at Hamburg’s Millerntor Stadion against newly promoted St. Pauli, who had lost all their matches. Marco Rose’s side missed a good chance after having made a good start to the season with two wins and a draw in three games that kept them at the top of the table, led by Bayern Munich.
The lack of striking power from both sides and the high level and response offered by the goalkeepers, the Bosnian Nikola Vasilj, from St. Pauli and the Hungarian Petar Gualcsi, from Leipzig, led to a goalless game. The first point earned by St. Pauli in the Bundesliga puts them in second-to-last place, equal with another newly promoted team, Kiel, and third-to-last, Bochum. The trio, with three defeats and one draw, are sixth. Leipzig, who have not won in three games since last weekend’s draw against Union Berlin and the defeat against Atlético Madrid, are now in sixth place.
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Changes
Jamie Gittens (29′, Felix Nmecha), Ramy Bensebaini (45′, Karim Adeyemi), Yan Couto (45′, Julian Ryerson), Donyell Malen (62′, Pascal Gross), Dan-Axel Zagadou (69′, Jeff Chabot), Fabian Rieder (69′, Ermedin Demirovic), Henry Chase (69′, Maximilian Mittelstädt), Emre Can (71′, Julian Brandt), El Bilal Toure (77′, Josha Vagnoman), Chris Führich (84′, Angelo Stiller)
Goals
1-0, 3′: Sea Undav2-0, 20′: Ermedin Demirovic3-0, 61′: Enzo Millot3-1, 74′: Guirassy4-1, 79′: El Bilal Toure5-1, 89′: Sea Undav
Cards
Arbitro: Florian Badstübner
Arbitro VAR: Sven Jablonski, Eduard Beitinger
Jamie Leweling (16′,Yellow), Emre Can (72′,Yellow), M. Sabitzer (76′,Yellow), Rami Bensebaini (80′,Yellow)
