Donyell Malen mustn’t have been on the sector when he scored late for Borussia Dortmund to start out the Bundesliga with a lucky 1-0 win over Cologne on Saturday,
The Dutch winger was because of go off to make approach for Jamie Bynoe-Gittens simply minutes earlier than he scored, however Julian Ryerson signalled his incapacity to proceed and Dortmund coach Edin Terzic took off the injured Ryerson as a substitute of Malen.
“Football writes such stories,” Terzic stated. “The one who stays on scores the winning goal in the end, and hopefully Jamie will conjure some magic for us next week.”
Dortmund’s late win didn’t stop reminiscences of the staff’s missed title likelihood from being revived because it appeared set for an additional disappointing draw at dwelling within the league.
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The dwelling staff laboured for lengthy durations to interrupt via the well-drilled customer’s disciplined unit and was lucky that Cologne’s Davie Selke, Dejan Ljubicic and substitute Sargis Adamyan didn’t rating.
In its earlier recreation on the Westfalenstadion, Dortmund didn’t wrap up the title final season when it was held by Mainz to 2-2 on the ultimate day when Bayern Munich capitalized with a 2-1 win in Cologne.
“There wasn’t much that we liked about the game today,” Terzić stated. “We liked that we won. So the three points, we’ll take them.”
Malen made the breakthrough within the 88th minute regardless of slipping and mishitting the ball to ship it in on the far publish after a nook, and Dortmund’s luck held as Max Finkgräfe missed one other likelihood for Cologne to equalize with the final kick of the sport.
STUTTGART FINE WITHOUT ENDO
Stuttgart confirmed no ill-effect from shedding captain Wataru Endo to Liverpool the day before today as each Serhou Guirassy and Silas Katompa Mvumpa scored twice in a 5-0 rout of visiting Bochum.
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Promoted Heidenheim slumped to a 2-0 loss at Wolfsburg on its Bundesliga debut. The customer acquired off to a foul begin when Jonas Wind scored within the sixth minute. The Danish ahead grabbed his second within the twenty seventh.
Tomas Cvancara scored a late penalty to rescue a 4-4 draw for Borussia Mönchengladbach at Augsburg. The dwelling staff had come from two objectives down to guide till Čvančara equalized within the seventh minute of harm time.
Also, Freiburg defeated Hoffenheim 2-1 away.
