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Jude Bellingham clenched his fists and shouted his joy, and coach Edin Terzic cheered in front of the bench and then individually hugged his players on the field.

for him BVB He seized the opportunity and sits the champion of the Bayern Munich series Munich Back in the neck: With a 2-0 (1-0) victory over Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Dortmund celebrated their third Bundesliga match three win of 2023 and rose to nearly three points behind the Munich side. Since Bayern have only drawn 1-1 so far this year, Borussia have made up six points off their long-term rivals in an English week and are currently fourth.

BVB took the lead with their first Bundesliga goal from national player Karim Adeyemi (33) – Sebastien Haller had left the ball well on his 11th debut after suffering testicular cancer. Edmund Tapsoba (53) scored an own goal, securing Dortmund’s victory in a match that Edmund Terzic had previously described as extraordinary as groundbreaking. Bayer’s race to catch up came to a halt after five straight victories. Due to a first home defeat under coach Xabi Alonso, a safe European Cup place is now eight points away.

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“This trio is very important,” commented Sebastian Kehl, sports director of BVB on the pay channel DAZN. “It took us a little bit to get into the game.” “We like to win and we like points,” said BVB coach Edin Terzic. Leverkusen was disappointed, but Bayer pro Jonathan Tah confirmed: “We had chances too.”

In Dortmund, Haller replaced the weak Youssouf Moukoko in his first competitive match in 240 days of starting – that time for Ivory Coast in the Africa Cup of Nations qualifier against Zambia (3-1). Captain Marco Rios sat on the bench until the 88th before returning almost three months later. Mo Dahoud and Thorgan Hazard, who according to a report by “WAZ” are about to move to Eindhoven, did not join the squad. Keel commented: “I can’t say what will happen in the next few days.”

In Bayer’s midfield, Alonso built an extra safety in Argentina’s world champion Exequiel Palacios. But as is so often the case in a head-to-head duel, both teams started offensively, with Baer initially putting more accents.

Leverkusen misses many great chances

In the fifth minute, a few Leverkusen fans celebrated a little prematurely, but Nadim Amri’s shot after a powerful ball win over Emery only touched the side-netting. Although Dortmund became stronger after that, the hosts also had another great chance, but Moussa Diaby’s shot was saved by Gregor Koppel after a wonderful pass from Florian Wertz (16).

Although Julian Ryerson made some inroads through Bayer’s strong right side with Jeremy Frimpong and Diaby, BVB Haller was not used for long. But even without touching the ball, the Ivorian played an important role in the lead when former Leverkusen player Julian Brandt crossed for Adeyemi. “A beautiful goal and an important goal,” Terzic said.

Some things were repeated after the change: first, Diaby failed again at Copil (48), then Dortmund scored again after a cross from the right. This time all the Dortmunds missed, but Tapsopa bounced the ball into the back flank – and from there it flew into the goal of the unstoppable Lukas Hradecky. Oddly enough: BVB led 2-0, even though Statistic recorded only one shot on goal.

An hour later, Haller left the field, but it was not Mukoko who came, but Anthony Modeste. In the 70th minute, Frimpong made a second save for Tapsoba when he knocked the ball off the goal line.

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