Saturday, March 5, 2011

Soccer-Bundesliga: Dortmund missed a runaway victory against Cologne

Borussia Dortmund dominated on the way to German football championship and league opponents continue. The Bundesliga leaders won six days after the gala when defending champions Bayern Munich (3-1) and the West duel with the first FC Cologne deserved 1-0 (1-0) and remained with the 50th Match point victory in the era of coach Juergen Klopp in the second half continued unbeaten.

At the same time built the Westfalen their lead over Bayer Leverkusen at least temporarily down to 15 points. Robert Lewandowski scored before 80 720 spectators in the sold-out arena with his sixth goal of the season (44th), the goal of the day and spoiled the Tabellenelften from Cologne, who had previously conceded just one defeat in 2011 and a clear upward trend revealed to the carnival atmosphere.

In addition, the Cologne lost their captain Lukas Podolski injury. The BVB fans show their team celebrated long after the final whistle. "That was probably one of the most deserving 1-0 all time," said Klopp: "The boys have worked itself out over 90 minutes chances. The fact that they live in is the so unbelievable.

The team then simply gains the whole wheel, "the short-term injured Mats Hummels was satisfied." We were superior. It is bizarre that we have until the end to shake. We had more than two, three goals must. But the victory was important, and we are now in a wonderful starting point. "A few hours before kick-off had to BVB coach Jürgen Klopp make a change in the starting line.

In the final practice complained of discomfort in Hummel's national player of the abdominal muscle and was replaced by Brazilian Felipe Santana. Borussia was back in goal for the recovered Roman Weidenfeller, who was 3-1 with Bayern Munich of Australians Mitchell Langerak well represented.

Weidenfeller experienced a relatively quiet first half, as the Cologne tried almost exclusively on the counterattack to succeed. The Westphalia acted with the usual dominance in home matches and earned already in the 7th Minute, the first big chance than Lucas Barrios was prevented at the last moment at the margin.

First stretch FC Keeper Michael Rensing had a powerful free kick by Neven Subotic (10) from about 30 meters. With its fast wing play of the Cologne Dortmund under pressure and finally had bad luck that a shot by Kevin Pezzoni Barrios in the 18th Minute was cleared off the line. Cologne was impressed by the aggressive Forechecking the hosts, who almost opened spaces for the controlled build-up play.

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