Flying In Champions League, Borussia Dortmund Suffers Another Bundesliga Setback – News18

BERLIN: Excelling within the Champions League, disappointing within the Bundesliga.

Borussia Dortmund suffered one other home setback when it was held at Augsburg to 1-1 on Saturday simply days after topping a Champions League group with Paris Saint-Germain, AC Milan and Newcastle.

When requested how the group can not keep its good Champions League kind within the Bundesliga, Dortmund defender Nico Schlotterbeck answered, “I don’t know.”

Ermedin Demirović held off Schlotterbeck’s problem — arguably with a shove — to fireside Augsburg right into a twenty third-minute lead.

Donyell Malen performed a one-two with Niclas Füllkrug to equalize within the thirty fifth.

Augsburg missed three good probabilities early within the second half earlier than Dortmund coach Edin Terzić despatched on Gio Reyna for Marco Reus, then the 19-yr-previous Samuel Bamba for his Bundesliga debut, however Dortmund was unable to seize a winner.

“We said before the game that we want and need to get six points in the remaining two games (of 2023),” Terzić mentioned. “Once again, it’s not an easy game to explain because we did a lot of things well, we didn’t like some things, and in the end it’s 1-1 and we have to live with that.”

It’s Dortmund’s third straight Bundesliga recreation with no win, and its fifth throughout all competitions together with a 1-1 draw with PSG on Wednesday.

Terzić’s group has received solely one among its final seven Bundesliga video games.

Dortmund, which got here agonizingly near ending Bayern Munich’s home dominance final season, can fall 9 factors behind the defending champion, and 13 behind league chief Bayer Leverkusen if Leverkusen beats Eintracht Frankfurt at dwelling on Sunday.

Bayern hosts Stuttgart on Sunday and nonetheless has a recreation to make amends for in January.

Dortmund additionally dangers falling additional behind fourth-positioned Leipzig within the race for Champions League qualification. Leipzig hosted Hoffenheim late Saturday.

“Complaining doesn’t help,” mentioned Terzić, after referring to his group’s busy schedule. “It’s a matter of moving forward again and showing that we also accept this challenge. And we will face that. And then hopefully we can reward our fans in the last home game (of 2023) on Tuesday.”

Dortmund subsequent faces Mainz.

TASTY TAKUMA

Fueled by chocolate from supporters’ protests, Takuma Asano scored to arrange Bochum’s 3-0 win over visiting Union Berlin of their duel on the decrease finish of the desk.

The Japan ahead grabbed a chocolate coin that was amongst many thrown onto the sphere by followers protesting the league’s plans to herald an out of doors investor, unwrapped the gold foil, and ate the chocolate inside.

Then Asano broke the impasse in first-half damage time by firing Bochum forward.

Gonçalo Paciência and Kevin Stöger — from a penalty — scored within the second half to deal Union its first league defeat beneath new coach Nenad Bjelica.

Also, Lovro Majer’s second-half aim was sufficient for 10-man Wolfsburg to beat Darmstadt 1-0, and Marvin Pieringer scored to present Heidenheim a 1-0 win in Mainz.

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