Borussia Dortmund is beating Fortuna Düsseldorf and Borussia Boss Hans-Joachim Watzke is happy about a thrilling season Finale. The Rest of Dortmund’s assessment of the situation is not quite so euphoric. The victory against the Team of Friedhelm Funkel will again tremble more than earned. Click here for the table of the Bundesliga. the By Ulrich Hartmann, Dortmund
Borussia Dortmund’s chances for the title may be minimal, but the club boss Hans-Joachim Watzke had on Saturday night still is good news. He said: “We can still win everything and that Bayern lose all the pressure moves to the South.” It should sound like a threat. An hour after the penultimate round, and seven days before the Showdown next Saturday opened Watzke with pleasure to the war of nerves.
at 17: 30 had passed in Dortmund footballer with a glimmer of hope from their Fans. The Borussia finished their last season home game with the small Chance to be next Saturday in Mönchengladbach, perhaps, but still a master. For this purpose, the end up in Excess of shook 3:2 (1:0)-victory against Fortuna Düsseldorf Gold value.
The victory, however, was more happy than liberating. Dortmund have won and kept only his small title chance because of düsseldorf, Dodi Lukebakio shot after about an hour, a foul penalty on to the crossbar and over. In injury time, Dortmund’s Mario Götze, the 3:1 and düsseldorf’s Dawid Kownacki is still the 3:2 scored. In the very last seconds of the unnerved BVB escape the compensation. Hardly the final whistle had sounded, shouted the stadium announcer Norbert Dickel into the microphone: “Leipzig Bavaria nullzunull – it’s not over until it’s over!” The jubilant Fans responded by singing: “German champion is only BVB
So ultimately, positively assessed the players and officials of the constellation would rather not. “It’s all there,” says the head of Department Sebastian Kehl. “We still believe in it,” said the winger, Christian Pulisic. But midfielder Thomas Delaney sound more realistic, as he admitted: “Our Chance is very small.” The coach Lucien Favre was used more on facts than on emotions. “We have to win and in Frankfurt hope,” he said.
For one or the other in the Dortmund Team, it is the last Chance at a League title with BVB. For example, for Pulisic. Five years, the US has played Americans for Dortmund. In the summer he moves to Chelsea in London. The 20-Year-old, was adopted before the game, celebrated when BVB the B-youth championship (2015), the A-youth-champion (2016) and the Cup (in 2017), he would be goodbye like a master. He did on Saturday to do his utmost, as he is in the 41. Minute with a header goal to 1:0-scored the lead. This was in his 89. Bundesliga game for Dortmund 13. Goal.
BVB goalkeeper Hitz is twice the focus
The desperate Swiss goalkeeper Marwin Hitz had robbed his Dortmund, however, by a hair, the last Chance at the championship. He stood in the gate, because Roman Bürki was injured. Hitz was in the 47. Minute not only outrageous, a feeble Header from düsseldorf’s Oliver Fink to 1:1, but was playing foul in the 56th minute. Minute – Delaney had in the meantime (53.) the re-Dortmunder guidance plump düsseldorf Lukebakio achieved, so that there was a penalty. The Belgians Lukebakio had been annoyed in the first half of the season at FC Bayern, by he had achieved in Munich at 3:3 all three of the Fortuna-hits, and now he’s angered the Bayern by in 59. Minute the foul penalty on the target’s lap.
But not even götze’s late 3:1 (92.) brought the BVB certainty. Since the 83. Minute played Dortmund in the Majority, because fortune’s sliding tackle of Adam Bodzek had pressed the fleeing Dortmund whirlwind Jadon Sancho, the studs on the heel. It was fortune’s first sending-off this season. Düsseldorf was after the 1:3 again on the Gas. Dortmund fluttered. The 2:3 by Kownacki (95.) almost followed the equaliser, but Dortmund was lucky that the chances of André Hoffmann and Kenan Karaman ended up in the goal.
Watzke finds that his BVB has nothing to lose. “We play a great season and have already 18 points more than last season – we can congratulate Lucien Favre only,” he said. But the Director also finds that his club has done the whole football country a Favor. “We are glad that we bring to the Bundesliga after a long time again, a final on the last round, we are proud of that.”
