Dortmund won the game in the DFB Pokal and now Thogran was the man of the match. He scored two goals and single-handedly led the team in the next round of the cup.
Hazard was the man of the match
Marco Rose opted to make five changes from the side that defeated Arminia Bielefeld at the weekend, with Marco Reus, Hazard and Manuel Akanji all given a breather on the bench, while Erling Haaland remained absent through injury. The personnel changes made little difference to the cup holders’ superiority, however, and it was largely one-way traffic towards the Ingolstadt goal in the first half, with the hosts enjoying 76 per cent of possession and having seven shots to their guests’ three by the interval. Nevertheless, the teams were level at the break, with a Jude Bellingham effort that rattled the crossbar as close as they came, before Mats Hummels had a goal disallowed for a foul in the build-up by Emre Can.
Second half was a big success for Hazard
There was more of the same in the second half, with Stefan Tigges hitting the crossbar with a diving header and Bellingham heading narrowly wide of the target as the home side’s pressure built to a crescendo. The introductions of Reus and Hazard off the bench for the final 20 minutes proved the tipping point, and the latter broke the deadlock within seconds of entering the pitch when he applied a close-range finish to Julian Brandt’s ball across the face of goal. The same duo combined to end the game as a contest less than 10 minutes later, with Brandt floating a cross from the right to the back post and Hazard ghosting into the six-yard box to volley home and rubber stamp Dortmund’s place in the next round. Dortmund will be waiting for a team in the next round.