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Last Updated: January 29, 2024, 00:30 IST
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Niclas Füllkrug scored a hat trick as Borussia Dortmund continued its profitable begin to the brand new 12 months by beating native rival Bochum 31 within the Bundesliga on Sunday.
DORTMUND, Germany: Niclas Füllkrug scored a hat trick as Borussia Dortmund continued its profitable begin to the brand new 12 months by beating native rival Bochum 3-1 within the Bundesliga on Sunday.
For the primary time since November, Dortmund ended a spherical of video games contained in the Champions League qualifying locations. Edin Terzic’s crew took fourth spot from Leipzig, which was crushed 5-2 by third-place Stuttgart on Saturday.
Füllkrug scored two penalties and a header to present Dortmund its third straight win to start out 2024 and hand 14th-place Bochum its first lack of the brand new 12 months.
Bochum gifted Dortmund the lead within the third minute when goalkeeper Manuel Riemann rushed out and collided with Donyell Malen. After a break for Riemann to obtain remedy, Füllkrug deceived the goalkeeper with a stuttering run-up and transformed the spot kick with ease.
A Dortmund error let Bochum again into the sport as Nico Schlotterbeck turned Patrick Osterhage’s cross — which gave the impression to be heading harmlessly to the goalkeeper — into his personal web within the forty fifth.
Füllkrug headed in from Marcel Sabitzer’s cross within the 72nd and accomplished his hat trick in stoppage time with one other penalty after Cristian Gamboa introduced down Jamie Bynoe-Gittens.
Jadon Sancho, on mortgage from Manchester United, was in Dortmund’s beginning lineup for the second straight week and performed 83 minutes.
Also Sunday, Union Berlin received 1-0 in opposition to Darmstadt regardless of having coach Nenad Bjelica banned from the bench for putting Bayern Munich’s Leroy Sané on Wednesday.
Darmstadt goalkeeper Marcel Schuhen kicked away a shot from Union ahead Benedict Hollerbach on a one-on-one break within the forty eighth. Hollerbach acquired his revenge 14 minutes later by scoring with a shot that went between Schuhen’s legs. It was Union’s first purpose of 2024 after failing to attain in its first two video games of the brand new 12 months.
Union stays fifteenth within the 18-crew league however has a 5-level cushion over Cologne within the relegation playoff spot. Darmstadt is final.
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