Post-Match Report
Successful dress rehearsal: U19s win final friendly 1-0
In Robin Lisewski and Nico Adamczyk, who already had to be substituted off after 28 minutes, there were once again only two players from the older year group in the U19 starting line-up. The only 15-year-old centre-back Jan-Luca Riedl made his debut. Mussa Kaba, who is the same age, occupied the holding midfield position in the young, attack-minded team, as he had done in the previous friendlies.
Taycan Etcibasi scored the goal of the game in the first minute. BVB worked well in defence and created several promising opportunities for themselves, which Mike Tullberg's team failed to take advantage of, meaning that the scoreline remained 1-0 and signalled a successful finish to the training week in the Kitzbühel Alps.
On Wednesday, the U19s will commence preparations for their first match in the DFB-Nachwuchsliga against Rot-Weiß Essen. The game will take place next Sunday at 11:00 CEST. Almugera Kabar, Tyler Meiser and Elias Benkara will then bolster the ranks.
U17s beat Nürnberg 6-5
The U17s, meanwhile, will begin their league campaign in 14 days with a home game against Hannover 96. The newly formed team won 6-5 against 1. FC Nürnberg in their final friendly. U17 coach Karsten Gorges fielded the entire squad. Luke Fahrenhorst, Justin Hoy, Damian Kolano, Diego Branco, Mathis Albert and Ahmad Najdi scored for the Black & Yellows.
After the team finished in fifth place at the U17 Bundesliga Cup in Öhringen, which saw Borussia suffer two unfortunate 1-0 defeats against TSG Hoffenheim 1899 and VfB Stuttgart at the beginning of the group phase, Gorges saw "a lot of good in our attacking play in particular" in the friendly against Nürnberg. He was less satisfied with the defensive conduct from his team, especially after having taken a 5-2 lead.
"We conceded frustrating and avoidable goals, because we were too impatient in possession," said Gorges, who is aiming to use the full week of training in order to work on the shortcomings.
The U17s will contest their final rehearsal prior to the start of the competitive season against 1. FC Köln next Sunday.
(wiwi)