Matchreport
6-2: Six goals, three woodwork strikes - BVB thrash HSV
Five games, five wins; BVB have set up a new record! The Black ´n´ Yellows gave a sparkling display on Matchday 5 of the Bundesliga season as they beat Hamburg 6-2 (2-1) and continue to head the table with a maximum 15 points.
Johannes Vorspohl reporting
80,645 saw Borussia Dortmund grab a deserved 2-0 lead through goals from Aubameyang and Mkhitaryan (19 and 22 mins) before Lam notched one for the visitors on 26 minutes. And the madness was soon complete when completely against the run of play Westermann nodded in the equaliser after 49 minutes. Happily BVB were soon back on track and goals from Aubameyang (65), Lewandowski (72 and 81 mins) and Reus (74) saw to it that BVB left the field with a thoroughly deserved 6-2 win.
The Scenario:
Borussia Dortmund came into the game having won all their games whilst HSV, having drawn with Schalke on the opening day, had had to wait until their last game against Braunschweig to claim their first (4-0) victory of the new season. Last season Hamburg won both games against BVB.
Personnel Matters:
Gündogan, Piszczek and Kuba were all unavailable for selection. Kuba´s knee injury meant that he had to sit this one out but may be able to contribute in the week against Napoli. Sahin and Lewandowski were also not fully fit but took their places in the starting XI alongside Aubameyang who was the only change to the side that had won in Frankfurt ahead of the international break.
Tactics:
Borussia Dortmund duly started in their favoured 4-2-3-1 while Thorsten Fink opted to set his side up in a 3-5-2 formation with the back three being ´protected´ by Diekmeier and Lam hoping thereby to cramp the space available to Reus and Aubameyang. Once they had gone two down Fink changed to a 4-4-2 formation.
The Game and Analysis:
Borussia quickly found their game and were soon penetrating deep into the HSV half of the field. Scarcely four minutes had gone by when Mkhitaryan tested Adler with a shot from 17 yards, then Lewandowski tried his luck only to see the ´keeper turn his effort round the post on 10 minutes. The Black ´n´ Yellows were so dominant and created chance after chance. But Hamburg were enjoying a deal of luck as exemplified when Hummels´ header from a Reus free-kick struck the post.
Hamburg´s new-look defence were hard-pressed to cope with Dortmund in these opening stages. With Dortmund working the ball so cunningly, it was only a matter of time before they opened the scoring and the goal duly came when Schmelzer´s free-kick set Aubameyang free to speed past Westermann to slide in the opener from the narrowest of angles on 19 minutes. Adler really wasn´t at his best in trying to prevent the striker´s fourth goal of the season.
The SIGNAL IDUNA PARK was still rocking when Adler once again picked the ball out of his net after a fine move involving Reus, a Lewandowski back-heel and a cool Mkhitaryan finish give BVB a two goal lead. The lead was deserved and the game seemed in the bag when, from nowhere, HSV struck back. Zoua released Lam down the left and he cut inside Subotic before forcing the ball past Weidenfeller from an unlikely 23 yards out. So, with 26 minutes gone, BVB were just a goal ahead. The goal didn´t really disturb the pattern of the game as BVB poured forward Adler denied Lewandowski on the half hour before once again the woodwork came to Hamburg´s rescue when Adler was able to fingertip a Reus drive onto the post. At half-time the statistics said it all with BVB´s thirteen shots ´just´ edging Hamburg´s one effort.
The second half began as the first had ended with Aubameyang sending a shot screeching wide of the HSV goal. Dortmund were pushing for that third goal but instead, the impossible happened as HSV scored again! Westermann slipped in behind his marker, Subotic to coolly nod home a van der Vaart free-kick to make it 2-2 on 49 minutes. You cannot fault the Hamburg efficiency in front of goal- two strikes, two goals!
Dortmund did not let this unsettle them for too long but the Hamburg goal was leading a charmed life as Reus once again saw his effort strike the woodwork courtesy of a fine Adler save. It was getting silly; Adler was soon denying first Reus, then Mkhitaryan in the 63rd minute before, at last, BVB´s fine passing in and around the HSV box brought due reward when Mkhitaryan found Aubameyang in the box and he made sure Adler was powerless to stop him making it 3-2 on 65 minutes.
Aubameyang´s second of the day duly opened the goal ´floodgates´ as, after two more excellent Reus chances and another from Aubameyang, Lewandowski capitalised on a fine Aubameyang dummy to strike a fourth on 72 minutes. Two minutes later Reus got his reward for a fine performance when he slid the ball under Diekmeier to make it 5-2.
Dortmund were now hell-bent on showing why meetings between these two sides have seen more goals scored in them than any other match-up. On 81 minutes Lewandowski got on the end of a long Sahin cross to round off the scoring with nine minutes to go. The SIGNAL IDUNA PARK duly partyed celebrating a thoroughly deserved and comprehensive win.
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Prospects:
Wednesday (kick-off: 2045 CET) sees BVB start their UEFA Champions League campaign with a visit to SSC Napoli. Next Saturday, they travel to 1FC Nuremberg in the Bundesliga (1530 CET)