First win – BVB U23 triumph 3-1 in Bergisch Gladbach | OneFootball

After draws away to VfL Bochum II (1-1) and at home to 1. FC Köln II (1-1), Borussia Dortmund’s second team claimed their first win of the new Regionalliga West season on Friday evening at the third attempt. At SV Bergisch Gladbach 09, it initially looked once again as though they would miss out on all three points, but after the break they finally secured the win they had hoped for.

Compared to last weekend, Silas Ostrzinski, who had previously trained with the first team, started in goal in place of Aaron Held, while Nanitonda Quiala replaced Elias Benkara in central defence. Otherwise, coach Daniel Rios fielded the same lineup again, including the two U19 players Luke Fahrenhorst and Fadi Zarqelain.

BVB took control from the outset against the newly promoted side, who had previously been unbeaten, but lacked enough attacking purpose and fell behind after 23 minutes when Fabian Fricke followed up a high turnover with a powerful strike from around 20 metres. The hosts then gained the upper hand, and BVB had Ostrzinski and the post to thank for not going into the break trailing by more.

Three goals in eight minutes

Coach Rios used half-time to make major adjustments. Kevin Mutove, Daniel Sumbu and Diego Ngambi came on as three fresh attacking options, and they did not need long to turn the game around. First, Sumbu equalised in the 47th minute after a fine solo run, and just five minutes later Ngambi set up Jesper Verlaat, who fired home for 2-1. Then, only three minutes after that, Mutove was brought down in the penalty area and converted the resulting spot kick himself to make it 3-1.

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Although there were still more chances, it stayed 3-1, after which Daniel Rios also found some critical words on the club website: “We had control of the game. But during the week we talked about the fact that it’s not enough for us just to have the ball and be in control — we also want to play with purpose going forward. We want to be willing to put in the yards so that we can get into better positions. And then it was the same again: we had control and plenty of opportunities, but in the first half I was missing that absolute determination to score goals,” said the BVB coach, who did, however, make the right moves at half-time: “Because the others had also done well during the week, it was the right decision to make changes after going 1-0 down.”

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