🧐 Bochum look clueless: Dynamo no longer playing like relegation strugglers | OneFootball

Dynamo Dresden seems determined to shoot away their basement frustration today. After eight league matches with four defeats and four draws, the Dresden team clearly has no desire to remain in the relegation zone and is underlining that with a very strong performance at the Vonovia Ruhrstadion against VfL Bochum, cheered on by around 2,000 traveling away fans.

After about 25 minutes of play, Alexander Rossipal gave Dynamo the lead with a volley on the rebound after an assist from Vermeij. In the following minutes, Bochum in particular looked very unsettled and played quite passively for a home team. On the other side, Dynamo was mostly very solid at the back—and just before halftime, they even capitalized on a brilliantly executed attack.

The move went forward down the left, Rossipal’s cross was deflected in the middle by unlucky Felix Passlack, allowing Vermeij to get to the ball and slot it into the bottom right corner of the goal with the outside of his foot. Thus, the provider and the scorer swapped roles—and both Vermeij and Rossipal each collected two scorer points in the first half.

Bochum, on the other hand, who came into this home game with confidence after taking ten points from four matches, collected a total of zero scorer points and so far have been far too harmless in attack. If Dresden wins today, they will be only three points behind VfL in 13th place, and Braunschweig would be overtaken, as Eintracht is trailing in Berlin in the parallel match.

However, Bochum still has more than enough time to rediscover the form they showed before the international break. About fifteen minutes after the restart, they at least put a stop to Dresden’s euphoria for the time being, as Bochum managed to pull one back. VfL is back in the game—and there are still a few minutes left to completely turn things around. 

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