There is a short tremor in Istanbul: BVB is finally doing it without a peat festival


There is brief tremors in Istanbul
BVB is finally doing it without a peat festival

Borussia Dortmund has successfully started the Champions League season. The Bundesliga club scores three points in Istanbul. When Mats Hummels returned to the starting line-up, there was only one goal against for the first time in four games. At the end of a long stoppage time, it causes tremors again.

At the end of a long and confident start to the new Champions League season, Borussia Dortmund still had one or two disappointed faces. At 2: 1 (2: 0) against Turkish champions Besiktas Istanbul, coach Marco Rose’s team with Mats Hummels, who returned from the starting line-up, was much more stable than last, but conceded the mandatory goal conceded this season in stoppage time.

After the goals of the strong Jude Bellingham (20th minute) and Torgarant Erling Haaland (45th + 3), the favorite of Group C made the first step on the way to the minimum goal of the round of 16. A header from Francisco Montero (90.4) made the first goal conceded in stoppage time in Dortmund’s fifth European Cup game in Turkey.

Rose is satisfied

“We actually wanted to play to zero. That was our big goal after we ate a few goals in the league recently,” said licensed player manager Sebastian Kehl at the DAZN streaming service. After conceding nine goals in only four Bundesliga games and the wild 4: 3 last in Leverkusen, Rose was “angry” about the defensive behavior before the game and gave veteran Mats Hummels his starting line-up comeback. After overcoming patellar tendon problems, the 32-year-old was back in the BVB’s starting line-up for the first time in four months.

What followed was an impressively confident and stable performance after the last all too often shown Wild West football. “We were basically good at counter-pressing today,” said Rose this time. The goal conceded in stoppage time would have been easier to get over if Dortmund had been more effective and consistent. “We should have scored a third and fourth goal much earlier. Then it would not have been exciting in the end,” quarreled Kehl, who saw a “deserved victory” overall.

The Dortmunders also tamed the passionate audience in Istanbul. While they were warming up, they were greeted with deafening whistles in the notorious Vodafone Park, Europe’s loudest stadium. “It’s not sold out, but it feels like it. This is real football, the way we love it, but haven’t gotten to know it for a long time,” said BVB sports director Michael Zorc.

“Brilliant atmosphere”

Only at the beginning seemed the Dortmunders still impressed, started a bit bumpy and initially granted way too many spaces on the defensive. After a system change, BVB was much better in the game and struck in the style of a top team. The only 18-year-old Bellingham completed a ball from Thomas Meunier for a somewhat surprising lead. This silenced the Turkish fans for the first time.

“It was a brilliant atmosphere here. It was really fun,” said the towering Bellingham, who also set up Haaland’s second goal. Rose secured the lead at the break and brought more defensive stability to Axel Witsel for the inconspicuous Julian Brandt. Hummels lasted 70 minutes on his comeback, and Rose tried above all to keep the zero with his changes. It didn’t work, again. This time it wasn’t too disappointing. “We have now won the third game in a row,” said Rose happily. “We are particularly happy with the three points today.”

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