The details and the interesting results
After an active start, the guests took a short break and at some point lost concentration. This resulted in a moment in the 23rd minute, when, after an inaccurate pass by Hummels, Guerreiro for some reason ran to the center, and only when the hosts began a quick counterattack 3 to 3, he ran back at full speed, but did not have time to cover Tomas, who from the right corner of the goalkeeper struck over the crossbar. Dortmund realized that it was impossible to relax against the hosts and went forward again. In the 27th minute, Hazard set up a quick 4-on-3 counter-attack, during which he gave a right to Brandt. But, since the field was wet from the downpour, the fair-haired midfielder slipped and could not hang into the goalkeeper’s free Holland. In the 44th minute, Brandt crossed from the right flank into the penalty area on the left half-flank, where Hazard crossed from a touch into the goalkeeper’s area for Royce, but the ball flew just above the head of the Borussia captain. But before Marco were empty gates. Marco Rose was forced to make a second and third forced substitution of the match. In the 32nd minute, Daoud suffered a shoulder injury, replaced by Witsel a few minutes later. And during the break due to problems with the left thigh, Hummels was replaced by Dan-Axel Zagadu. In the first half, the Stuttgart players ran a whole kilometer less in total than the Borussia players and put pressure on the situation. After the break, the hosts’ head coach Pellegrino Matarazzo instructed his players to press all the way to the goal. And this tactic paid off at first. Dortmund for a long time could not only organize at least one normal attack, but even without any problems go to someone else’s half of the field.