Wins over Essen! BVB youth teams ride the wave of success | 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 struggling with a thigh muscle injury and was also unavailable, as was Peniel Poba, who is still not fit to play. Felix Hirschnagl moved regular 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 late on.

The Black and Yellows made the perfect start: Tom Faust played Ahmad Najdi through, and he coolly finished to make it 1:0 (2nd minute). The visitors were unfazed by going behind and launched a lively attacking game against an error-prone Dortmund side, who nevertheless took their next chance to go 2:0 up. It started with Najdi winning the ball in midfield, and at the end of the passing 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 (27'). After that, the Red-Whites had plenty of chances to equalize but failed to take them. BVB, by contrast, were much more efficient: Niklas König scored to make it 3:1 after a solo run in stoppage time.

Despite the clear lead, Felix Hirschnagl reacted at the break to his team’s far from convincing display by making three substitutions, and the side approached the entire second half with much greater focus. In the 48th minute, Hoy was denied by goalkeeper Vogel, Luis Alaze hit the crossbar with a header, 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 to secure the three points. Late on, Tom Faust (88', assist by Alaze) and Niklas König (90+5, Faust corner) even made it 5:1.

Felix Hirschnagl: “Especially in the first half, we made a lot of control and passing errors and were clearly below our potential in footballing terms. We did well without the ball. In the end, our efficiency was decisive.”

Outlook

On Tuesday, 8 September, the U19, by then with a significantly changed squad, will begin the league phase of the UEFA Youth League against FC Villarreal (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 fell behind twice in Essen but turned the game around in the closing stages, when Emir Kirar made it 3:2 in the 82nd minute. Karsten Gorges’ team thus celebrated its fifth win in its fifth game.

Jonas Schwarzer and Nathanael Okojie came into BVB’s starting lineup, replacing 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 with the 1:1 equalizer shortly before half-time. The second half began like the first: Yusuf Galalie scored the celebrated 2:1 for RWE. After just over an hour, BVB responded with Janis Tunkel making it 2:2 and were delighted in the end with a deserved win.

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

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