Damage
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Borussia Dortmund is as good as in the 16 year old round after a trembling in the midday heat of Cincinnati at the club World Cup. Also thanks to the first objective of the new Vedette Jobe Bellingham (45th minute), the team of coach Niko Kovac won 4: 3 (3: 1) against the master in the South African series Mamelodi Sundowns from the start.
Felix Nmecha (16th) and Serhou Guirassy (34th) also met against the Pretoria club. Sundowns’ defense player Khuliso Mudau (59th) provided a goal. Lucas Ribeiro (11th) had made Malmodi in the lead in front of 14: 006. Iqraam Rayners (62nd) and Lebo Mothiba (90th) shortened in the second period for the tool.
Many more than 30 degrees Celsius at 12 noon, the local time, the two teams made an unusually high number of errors at a quiet pace, which BVB used a little better. After four points in two games, Dortmund will again play against Ulsan HD from South Korea in Cincinnati against Ulsan HD at the end of the preliminary round.
Kovac: « Not the best game, but it was not possible »
« We certainly did not make the best game today, but it was not possible, » the coach of the BVB Kovac told « Dazn » for difficult conditions: « I did nothing, I was only on the external line and sweat as if I left the sauna. » It was « certainly not all around », added Kovac, « but I don’t care – we won. »
Kovac reacted to the tired 0: 0 at the start of Rio de Janeiro. Karim Adeyemi, Julian Rerson and Marcel Sabitzer turned from the team and stayed curiously in the cabin. Given the violent midday heat, the BVB substitute players did not continue the game of the players’ bank, which was positioned under the flamboyant sun.
« We have to bring people who can also face the weather, » Kovac said before the match. However, this only partially worked. The Yan Couto, who came into play for Rerson for around 25 million euros in Manchester United, took its inadequate chance. The Brazilian made position errors and bad sloppy passes.
In his first game, Bellingham, on the other hand, said on several occasions for Dortmund the great strengthening of the 19 -year -old English. Shortly before the whistle at half-time, the replacement of Adeyemi also obtained the preliminary decision with its 3-1. The brother of the former BVB professional Jude Bellingham came from Sunderland for 30 million euros.
And Nmecha, who replaced Sabitzer, brought BVB back in the match after a quarter of an hour. However, he also benefited from an incredible goat of the South African national goalkeeper Ronwen Williams, who had played the ball in the (Site notre bureau spécialisé) without need.
From that moment, many ran in favor of Westphalia, which is also lucky that the Pretoria team cannot really take advantage of the many Dortmund defense sculptors. After a good half hour, Guirassy put BVB in mind for the first time after Julian Brandt’s measure. In the direction of the South Africans, Ribeiro used a bad mistake by Waldemar Anton and then sprinted Ramy Bensebaini, who became empty.
After the change, the game was almost decided by Daniel Svensson by the flank deflected by Mudau in his own network. But the two goals in the second half have again brought tensions.