Borussia Dortmund started the new season in the Bundesliga with a big win. The team of trainer Marco Rose was 5-2 too strong for Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday evening, partly thanks to Erling Braut Haaland. The attacker, who had already scored three times in the cup match with SV Wehen Wiesbaden (0-3) a week ago, was in the first league match at all goals from those Boruses involved: three assists and two hits. Donyell Malen made his first minutes in the Bundesliga after 73 minutes of play as a substitute.
After a very strong first half, Borussia Dortmund went into halftime with a fully deserved 3-1 lead. Eintracht Frankfurt, which looked shaky defensively and at times desperate from an attacking point of view, was happy that a goal from Marco Reus was disallowed a few minutes before the break thanks to VAR. In the first twenty minutes, the teams of Rose and Olivier Glasner kept each other in balance and there were hardly any scoring opportunities, but in the remainder of the first half, Haaland brought the game off balance.
After a ball conquest from Thorgan Hazard, Haaland was unstoppable in his march towards the penalty area and saw Reus push the ball into the goal after his pass: 1-0. A few minutes later, Eintracht, with Filip Kostic in the starting line-up and Amin Younes on the bench, happily tied the score. Giovanni Reyna lost the ball in his own half, after which Felix Passlack eventually worked the ball on the edge of the box behind goalkeeper Gregor Kobel when he wanted to prevent a shot on goal: 1-1.
Rose’s team managed to take a 3-1 lead in two minutes. After preparatory work by Reus and again Haaland, Hazard shot the ball high into the goal on the right side of the penalty area through goalkeeper Kevin Trapp’s foot: 2-1. In minute 34, Stefan Ilsanker was the last man to be childishly trumped by Haaland, who made his first league goal face to face with Trapp: 3-1. Five minutes before half time, the 4-1 was broken when Trapp tried to avoid a corner, but in doing so enabled Reus to put the ball in. However, the VAR saw that the ball had crossed the back line and so the home team got a corner, which ultimately resulted in nothing.
Eintracht Frankfurt started the second half with three new faces, including debutant Jens Petter Hauge, and made a better impression in the opening phase. However, the 4-1 after less than an hour of play was disastrous for Glasner’s team. After a scrimmage in the box, the ball ended up via Haaland at the feet of Reyna, who shot the ball in from close range. Just under twenty minutes before the end, goal number two for Haaland followed. After careless loss of the ball by the visitors in a dangerous place, the Norwegian was not offside when he sprinted away at the center line and after a rush over tens of meters he outsmarted Trapp again: 5-1.
Malen came in just after the 5-1 as a replacement for Hazard and a few minutes later Antonios Papadopoulos, instead of Axel Witsel, also made his league debut for BVB. Hauge determined the final score in the final phase. Substitute Ragnar Ache extended a corner, after which the Norwegian was more attentive than Thomas Delaney and shot in from close range: 5-2. Next Tuesday, Dortmund will already play for the first prize of the season. Then Bayern Munich is the opponent in the battle for the DFL Supercup.