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After six games without defeat, Borussia Dortmund's U23s lost on Matchday 34 in the 3. Liga away to Erzgebirge Aue. BVB lost a closely contested contest 2-1.<\/p>\n","title":"Teaser Text","multiValue":false,"value":"After six games without defeat, Borussia Dortmund's U23s lost on Matchday 34 in the 3. Liga away to Erzgebirge Aue. BVB lost a closely contested contest 2-1.","exportedType":"text/html"},"scheduledPush":{"multiLine":false,"dataType":"boolean","name":"scheduledPush","title":"Scheduled Push Notification?","multiValue":false,"value":false,"exportedType":"boolean"},"disableAdsOnNewsPage":{"multiLine":false,"dataType":"boolean","name":"disableAdsOnNewsPage","title":"Disable Ads on News Page","multiValue":false,"value":false,"exportedType":"boolean"},"text":{"multiLine":true,"dataType":"string","name":"text","html":"

The scenario: <\/b>Dortmund's youngsters had not lost in six competitive games, most recently recording two victories against promotion hopefuls SC Verl (1-0) and Energie Cottbus (4-1). FC Erzgebirge Aue, on the other hand, had lost five of their previous six 3. Liga games. Both clubs were looking to secure points to help in their fight against relegation.<\/p>\n

Personnel matters:<\/b> Top scorer Julian Hettwer was back in the starting line-up in Aue for the first time after his back injury, having enjoyed lively cameos as a substitute in the past three games. BVB coach Jan Zimmermann made four changes to his team from the win against Energie Cottbus, with Hettwer, Danylo Krevsun, Ayman Azhil and goalkeeper Silas Ostrzinski starting in place of Julien Duranville, Niklas Jessen, Tony Reitz and Marcel Lotka.<\/p>\n

The match: <\/b>The Black & Yellows started with commitment and high pressing. However, the U23s were not able to cause many problems in the opposition's penalty area, often giving the ball away too easily in Aue's half. The home side were also struggling to put much together offensively in the opening stages. In the first quarter of an hour, it was only a deflected Anthony Barylla shot that caused any slight danger in the 11th minute, when BVB goalkeeper Silas Ostrzinski took safe option and tipped the ball over the bar. Six minutes later, the hosts countered in their own stadium. After Michael Eberwein lost the ball, things suddenly went very fast: Omar Sijaric teed up Ali Loune, who took aim from the inside-right. Ostrzinski was only able to turn the ball on to the post. The ball rebounded and rolled along the goal line, where Borys Tashchy was waiting to poke the ball into the back of the net.<\/p>\n

The setback caused the Dortmund game to fall apart. The otherwise stable defence suddenly began to wobble. Within a few minutes, the violets came very close to scoring a second goal. Ostrzinski made two saves in the 19th and 22nd minutes, before Tashchy's header went just wide of the post five minutes later.<\/p>\n

The equaliser then came out of nowhere. This time it was the Dortmund team who hit their opponents quickly on transition after winning the ball, with Kjell Wätjen, Julian Hettwer and Paul-Philipp Besong linking up to outfox the FC Erzgebirge back line. The crowning glory of the fine move was Besong's finish to make it 1-1, beating Aue goalkeeper Martin Männel from 14 metres out from the inside right.<\/p>\n

The equaliser restored BVB's confidence. Zimmermann team's enjoyed more possession of the ball in the final phase of the first half, but again struggled to carve out scoring opportunities.<\/p>\n

However, the Dortmund side did not allow themselves to be discouraged. Right at the beginning of the second half, Wätjen tried his luck from distance. However, the warning shot was not a problem for Männel in the 46th minute. It wasn't long afterwards that BVB conceded a second goal: Mika Clausen fired the ball into the left corner with his right foot from around 16 metres out to make it 2-1 to Aue on 54 minutes.<\/p>\n

In front of 10,495 fans in the Erzgebirgsstadion, BVB refused to lie down and threw everything at their hosts in spite of the setback. Hettwer went agonisingly close to another equaliser. After a lovely pass from Eberwein, the striker found himself free in front of Männel, but the BVB top scorer's lobbed effort narrowly missed the goal in the 64th minute.<\/p>\n

Zimmermann tried everything he could, bringing on three fresh faces in attack in Antonio Foti, Babis Drakas and Rodney Elongo-Yombo, but again BVB failed to find a way through the resolute Aue defence who did not offer them any gaps or space to exploit.<\/p>\n

As a result, the U23s missed the chance to further ease any lingering worries in the fight against relegation. After the close 2-1 defeat, the Black & Yellows find themselves 15th in the table, four points ahead of the relegation places.<\/p>\n

Head coach Jan Zimmermann:<\/b> "We were just not as good today as we have been in recent games. Especially in the first half, we were not really in the game at all. It is of course annoying that we fell 2-1 behind during our best period in the whole game. Aue fought and defended with real passion. We could not come up with a response to that. Our passing was not good enough, we made a lot of errors and lost too many duels to take something away with us today. That's frustrating. We could have taken a big step today."<\/p>\n

Outlook: <\/b>Next Saturday (26 April), the U23s will play host to Hannover 96 II. Kick-off at the Rote Erde is at 14:00 CET. <\/p>\n

Goals:<\/b> 1-0 Tashchy (17), 1-1 Besong (29), 2-1 Clausen (54)<\/p>\n

U23s:<\/b> Ostrzinski \u2013 Krevsun (Jessen, 46), Lührs, Hüning, Kabar (Göbel, 65) \u2013 Roggow, Azhil (Foti, 69), Wätjen (Elongo-Yombo, 85) \u2013 Eberwein, Hettwer, Besong Drakas, 74)
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The scenario: <\/b>Dortmund's youngsters had not lost in six competitive games, most recently recording two victories against promotion hopefuls SC Verl (1-0) and Energie Cottbus (4-1). FC Erzgebirge Aue, on the other hand, had lost five of their previous six 3. Liga games. Both clubs were looking to secure points to help in their fight against relegation.<\/p>\n

Personnel matters:<\/b> Top scorer Julian Hettwer was back in the starting line-up in Aue for the first time after his back injury, having enjoyed lively cameos as a substitute in the past three games. BVB coach Jan Zimmermann made four changes to his team from the win against Energie Cottbus, with Hettwer, Danylo Krevsun, Ayman Azhil and goalkeeper Silas Ostrzinski starting in place of Julien Duranville, Niklas Jessen, Tony Reitz and Marcel Lotka.<\/p>\n

The match: <\/b>The Black & Yellows started with commitment and high pressing. However, the U23s were not able to cause many problems in the opposition's penalty area, often giving the ball away too easily in Aue's half. The home side were also struggling to put much together offensively in the opening stages. In the first quarter of an hour, it was only a deflected Anthony Barylla shot that caused any slight danger in the 11th minute, when BVB goalkeeper Silas Ostrzinski took safe option and tipped the ball over the bar. Six minutes later, the hosts countered in their own stadium. After Michael Eberwein lost the ball, things suddenly went very fast: Omar Sijaric teed up Ali Loune, who took aim from the inside-right. Ostrzinski was only able to turn the ball on to the post. The ball rebounded and rolled along the goal line, where Borys Tashchy was waiting to poke the ball into the back of the net.<\/p>\n

The setback caused the Dortmund game to fall apart. The otherwise stable defence suddenly began to wobble. Within a few minutes, the violets came very close to scoring a second goal. Ostrzinski made two saves in the 19th and 22nd minutes, before Tashchy's header went just wide of the post five minutes later.<\/p>\n

The equaliser then came out of nowhere. This time it was the Dortmund team who hit their opponents quickly on transition after winning the ball, with Kjell Wätjen, Julian Hettwer and Paul-Philipp Besong linking up to outfox the FC Erzgebirge back line. The crowning glory of the fine move was Besong's finish to make it 1-1, beating Aue goalkeeper Martin Männel from 14 metres out from the inside right.<\/p>\n

The equaliser restored BVB's confidence. Zimmermann team's enjoyed more possession of the ball in the final phase of the first half, but again struggled to carve out scoring opportunities.<\/p>\n

However, the Dortmund side did not allow themselves to be discouraged. Right at the beginning of the second half, Wätjen tried his luck from distance. However, the warning shot was not a problem for Männel in the 46th minute. It wasn't long afterwards that BVB conceded a second goal: Mika Clausen fired the ball into the left corner with his right foot from around 16 metres out to make it 2-1 to Aue on 54 minutes.<\/p>\n

In front of 10,495 fans in the Erzgebirgsstadion, BVB refused to lie down and threw everything at their hosts in spite of the setback. Hettwer went agonisingly close to another equaliser. After a lovely pass from Eberwein, the striker found himself free in front of Männel, but the BVB top scorer's lobbed effort narrowly missed the goal in the 64th minute.<\/p>\n

Zimmermann tried everything he could, bringing on three fresh faces in attack in Antonio Foti, Babis Drakas and Rodney Elongo-Yombo, but again BVB failed to find a way through the resolute Aue defence who did not offer them any gaps or space to exploit.<\/p>\n

As a result, the U23s missed the chance to further ease any lingering worries in the fight against relegation. After the close 2-1 defeat, the Black & Yellows find themselves 15th in the table, four points ahead of the relegation places.<\/p>\n

Head coach Jan Zimmermann:<\/b> "We were just not as good today as we have been in recent games. Especially in the first half, we were not really in the game at all. It is of course annoying that we fell 2-1 behind during our best period in the whole game. Aue fought and defended with real passion. We could not come up with a response to that. Our passing was not good enough, we made a lot of errors and lost too many duels to take something away with us today. That's frustrating. We could have taken a big step today."<\/p>\n

Outlook: <\/b>Next Saturday (26 April), the U23s will play host to Hannover 96 II. Kick-off at the Rote Erde is at 14:00 CET. <\/p>\n

Goals:<\/b> 1-0 Tashchy (17), 1-1 Besong (29), 2-1 Clausen (54)<\/p>\n

U23s:<\/b> Ostrzinski \u2013 Krevsun (Jessen, 46), Lührs, Hüning, Kabar (Göbel, 65) \u2013 Roggow, Azhil (Foti, 69), Wätjen (Elongo-Yombo, 85) \u2013 Eberwein, Hettwer, Besong Drakas, 74)
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