Borussia Dortmund

+/-

-1

Season:
Match:


			Borussia Dortmund - Eintracht Frankfurt 2:3 (1:1)

Season 2009/2010, Matchday 21, 07.02.2010 17:30

Matchreport

2-3 : BVB go down having been ahead
through goals from Hummels and Barrios

[7.02.] Borussia Dortmund received another setback today. Following last week´s defeat in Stuttgart, BVB went down 2-3 (1-1) to Eintracht Frankfurt in the 21st round of the Bundesliga season. It was a hard fought game in which the visitors managed to turn things round in the second half after Dortmund had gone ahead.

Johannes Vorspohl reporting

Eintracht Frankfurt took the lead at the SIGNAL IDUNA PARK in front of 70400 fans through Kohler´s header on 8 minutes. BVB made hard work of it against a well-organised Frankfurt team but managed to level the game on 17 minutes courtesy of a Hummels strike following a corner. When Barrios shot the home side ahead on 57 minutes it seemed that BVB were on the road to victory, however goals from Jung (65 mins) and Meier (74) turned the game around. Both goals, remarkably, were deflected!

The Scenario:
It was fourth plays seventh in the table. Having had their run abruptly stopped by Stuttgart last week, BVB were keen to claim victory to set them on another run against Eintracht having claimed 20 of the 30 available points played for so far at their own stadium. Eintracht arrived having won three, drawn three and lost three of their nine away games this season and were thus ranked 12th best on the road. .

Starting for the first time: Damien Le Tallec.

Personnel Matters:
BVB were missing almost an entire team with Weidenfeller, Kehl, Bender, Kuba, Tinga, Feulner, Rangelov and Oetzekin all out which meant that for the first time since the 14th Gameday, Juergen Klopp had to ake more than one change to his starting line-up. Le Tallec (first time in from the start) and Zidan (returning from Africa) came into the side which showed five changes from the team defeated 1-4 in Stuttgart. Hummels and Subotic formed the central defence with Grosskreutz and Sahin ahead of them in a midfield completed by the offensive trio of Le Tallac, Zidan and Valdez.

Eintracht arrived missing Schwegler, Petkovic, Fenin, Vasoski, Tosun, Bjramovic, Amanatidis, Korkmaz, Clark and Alvarez.

Tactics:
Juergen Klopp has been sending his team out in the 4-2-3-1 formation since October 2009 and he did again today against Eintracht. The guests have been much more flexible with Michael Skibbe experimenting with no less than eight variations. Today he favoured a 4-1-4-1 formation with recently arrived Altintop as the lone striker.

Marc Ziegler could not stop Köhler's header on 8 minutes.

The Game and Analysis:
The game started well with Sahin playing in Barrios with less than a minute played. The striker saw his effort just go wide as the visitors gave as good as they got in the opening phase of the game. Then BVB got lucky; following an attempted clearance by Schmelzer Frankfurt´s Meier sent his shot way over the bar. Just six minutes later Altintop released Ochs down the right and his cross duly found Koehler unmarked at the back post to head home beyond Ziegler´s despairing dive.

BVB tried to strike back but too often resorted to long balls into the box which were easily dealt with by the Frankfurt defence. The equaliser finally came from a dead ball as a Grosskreutz corner was cleared to the feet of Zidan who shot from just outside the box. Hummels intercepted the ball on the six yard line and slipped it past the ´keeper to make it 1-1 on 17 minutes. It was the central defender´s fifth goal of the season.

Despite drawing level BVB struggled to find a good rhythm and so it was Frankfurt that created the better chances. Ziegler prevented the team falling behind again as he rushed out to thwart Koehler two minutes after the equaliser. Eintracht repeatedly made the most of gaps in the BVB defence to mount dangerous counter attacks, such as in the 28th minute when Altintop beat Subotic only to see his looped strike cleared from the line by Hummels - a remarkable effort! Again, shortly after, an Ochs cross was nodded wide by Altintop on the half hour. .

In attack he scored the equaliser, at the back saved a certain goal: Hummels.

BVB upped the tempo just before the break. First, on 40 minutes, Barrios was denied by Nikolov following a pass by Sahin and then three minutes later, Le Tallac was unable to get the ball under control when in a good position in the box.

It seems the coach had found the answer at half time. BVB were much more positive and the chances started coming. The lead was not long coming. Owomoyela won the ball on the right wing and passed back to Zidan who struck a fine cross into the box where Barrios, having slipped his marker, slid in to hit high into the net. It was his eleventh goal of the season and made the score 2-1 on 57 minutes.

Now Borussia were dominant. Valdez was denied by the Frankfurt ´keeper Nikolov and attacks were regular and dangerous and yet it was just during this phase that Frankfurt equalised from a corner. Valdez cleared the corner but only found Jung on the edge of the box, who instantly struck a shot that was deflected beyond the diving Ziegler to make it 2-2 after 65 minutes. The game now was end to end and Valdez saw an effort blocked when goal bound on 68 minutes.

Careless loss of possession in midfield led to Borussia going behind on 74 minutes. Teber sent Meier through on goal and he was able to send his shot past Ziegler into the net despite Owomoyela´s last ditch tackle. BVB did all they could to get back into the game but found chances hard to come by. Substitute Goetze saw his effort go wide with five minutes to go but with three minutes of added time played referee Stark brought the game to a close.

Prospects:
Next Saturday (13 Feb 1830 CET) BVB take on Bayern in Munich. A week later they host Hannover 96 at the SIGNAL IDUNA PARK (kick off 1530 CET).