Youth teams stay on course for success | OneFootball

With his fourth goal of the season in the 61st minute, Bjarki Gardarsson removed all doubt about the outcome of the intense match in Osnabrück. It was preceded by an impressive passing move involving Tom Faust and Justin Hoy, who had fired BVB into the lead in the 36th minute. “Overall, it was a very solid performance,” assessed coach Felix Hirschnagl.

BVB, who were once again able to call on Jan Luca Riedl after his return from the senior team to the U19 squad, controlled the game in the opening 20 minutes. Osnabrück then grew into the match and had a huge chance to equalize through Bernd Zünkler in the 26th minute. “That was down to the way we played, because we moved away from our plan. We made adjustments at half-time and then came out of the dressing room much more focused and compact,” said Hirschnagl.

The team rewarded itself with the 2-0 and, after briefly losing its structure partly due to the many personnel changes, safely saw the three points over the line. “In the closing stages, we managed to keep the opponents largely away from our penalty area,” Hirschnagl said, pleased with the second consecutive clean sheet. BVB top the table with nine points, ahead of Fortuna Düsseldorf (5), RW Essen (5), and MSV Duisburg (4).

U19: Wehrbein – Riedl (46' Vogt), Strößner, Kante (46' Ritter), Adje (80' König) – Hagemann (62' Burkhardt), Alaze (80' Kaymak), Faust – Mirza, Gardarsson (62' Najdi), Hoy

U17 ready for the derby against Schalke

U17 coach Karsten Gorges was primarily pleased with the result after the 5-3 win in Duisburg: “At times we played very well, but overall we were too careless and made too many mistakes,” he summed up, noting a total of 26 transition situations for the opposition. Goalkeeper Jayden Kusi also saved a penalty with the score at 1-2.

After falling behind 0-1 early on from a corner “gifted” by the Black & Yellows (scorer Mats Prang, 3rd minute), BVB responded with quick combination play and goals from Hamzath Mohamadou (6') and Janis Tunkel (20'). Borussia’s 3-1, credited as an own goal by David Pettrovic (32'), sparked heated debate because of a defective goal net, but the visitors were not thrown off course. Niclas Goldberg made it 5-1 at half-time with two goals (44', 45+2').

After a good ten minutes following the restart, the Black & Yellows gradually lost control. MSV sensed an opportunity and reduced the deficit to 3-5 late on (65th and 85th minute). Athanasios Grammozis was shown a second yellow card in stoppage time for kicking the ball away and will miss next Sunday’s derby against Schalke 04 (kick-off 11 a.m., Brackel Youth Performance Center).

“We’re not yet managing to play consistently over 90 minutes. But the team has a lot of potential for development. Hopefully the game in Duisburg was a timely warning. Now we’re looking forward to the derby,” said Karsten Gorges, whose team will first travel to RW Essen in the inaugural NRW Cup (Wednesday, 6:30 p.m.).

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