Wins over Essen! BVB youth sides stay on the crest of a wave | OneFootball

U19 wins after a clear improvement in performance

Squad

Top scorer Bjarki Gardarsson was absent due to a bad cold. Amine Lettifi, who had marked his BVB debut in the friendly against Viktoria Köln (3-4) with two goals, is dealing with a thigh muscle injury and was also unavailable, as was Peniel Poba, who is still unfit to play. Felix Hirschnagl moved natural defender Niklas König into midfield, Till Burkhardt replaced Gardarsson in central attack, and Ahmad Najdi (right) and Marwan Mirza (left) started on the wings. After his comeback with the U17, Hamzath Mohamadou made his first brief appearance in the closing stages.

The Black and Yellows got off to a perfect start: Tom Faust played Ahmad Najdi through, and he coolly fired home for 1-0 (2nd minute). The visitors were unfazed by going behind and launched some quick attacks against an error-prone Dortmund side, who nevertheless took their next chance to go 2-0 up. It came after Najdi won the ball in midfield, and at the end of the move Justin Hoy gave RWE goalkeeper Colin Vogel no chance with a powerful shot from 16 meters. Essen again responded defiantly and with determination. Fadih Vasic converted a penalty, awarded after a foul by Lenni Strößner, to pull one back (27th). After that, the Red-Whites had plenty of chances to equalize but failed to make them count. BVB, by contrast, were far more efficient: Niklas König made it 3-1 with a solo effort in stoppage time.

At the break, Felix Hirschnagl responded to the team’s far from convincing display despite the clear lead by making three substitutions, and his side approached the entire second half with much greater focus. Hoy was denied by goalkeeper Vogel in the 48th minute, Luis Alaze headed against the crossbar, and at the other end the defense allowed far less. After Vasic was shown a red card in the 80th minute, Dortmund comfortably saw the game out for the three points. In the closing stages, Tom Faust (88th, assist by Alaze) and Niklas König (90+5, Faust corner) even added two more goals to make it 5-1.

Outlook

On Tuesday, 8 September, the U19, then with a significantly changed lineup, will begin the league phase of the UEFA Youth League against Villarreal CF (4 p.m., Youth Performance Center). Next Sunday (13 September), the team will visit Fortuna Düsseldorf on matchday six of preliminary group H in the DFB Youth League (11 a.m.).

U19: Froese – Vogt, Strößner (46. Kane), Ritter, Adje (46. Kaymar) – König – Faust, Hoy (61. Hagemann) – Najdi (46. Alaze), Burkhardt (70. Mohamadou), Mirza (77. Tepic)

U17 with fifth win in fifth game

The U17 went behind twice in Essen and turned the game around in the closing stages when Emir Kirar scored to make it 3-2 in the 82nd minute. Karsten Gorges’ team thus celebrated its fifth win in five games.

Jonas Schwarzer and Nathanael Okojie came into the BVB starting lineup and replaced Hamzath Mohamadou (in the U19 squad) and Nikola Jekic, who was named among the substitutes. Dimitrios Grammozis was also still absent.

The hosts made an immediate statement and took the lead in the 4th minute. Niclas Goldberg rewarded Borussia’s efforts shortly before half-time with the equalizer for 1-1. The second half began like the first: Yusuf Galalie scored the celebrated 2-1 for RWE. BVB responded after a good hour through Janis Tunkel for 2-2 and were delighted with a deserved victory in the end.

In their next home game, the U17 will face VfL Osnabrück (Saturday, 12 September, 1 p.m.).

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