Thursday, May 13, 2021 at 10:40 PM• Daniel Cabot Kerkdijk • Last update: 22:43

Borussia Dortmund has won the DFB Pokal for the fifth time in history on Thursday. The team of Edin Terzic was in the final in the Olympiastadion in Berlin with 1-4 too strong for RB Leipzig, which therefore had to wait longer for the first prize in the relatively short club history. It’s for those Boruses already the third victory this season die Rote Bullen, who were beaten 3-2 last Saturday and also lost the first league game 1-3.

Borussia Dortmund laid the foundation for the German Cup victory in the first 45 minutes. Terzic’s team played exasperated and did not allow coach Julian Nagelsmann’s team to remain in possession for a long time. The individual qualities of Marco Reus, Erling Braut Haaland and Jadon Sancho were decisive. After five minutes of play it was already hit. Reus took the ball off Kevin Kampl and then the leather ended up at Sancho via Haaland and Mahmoud Dahoud. The Englishman got just a little too much space in the penalty area and shot the ball in the far corner behind the hopeless Peter Gulacsi: 0-1.

After less than half an hour of play, the 0-2 appeared on the scoreboard. A bad pass from Hee-chan Hwang ended up at Reus, who launched Haaland. Dayot Upamecano could not stop the Norwegian and after that Gulacsi was also unable to reverse the sophisticated bet in the left corner. Just before half time, Terzic’s team continued to delay. Reus was sent in by Dahoud and passed the ball to Sancho at the right moment, who played Marcel Halstenberg in the goal mouth and then scored: 0-3.

RB Leipzig made a much better impression after the break and was unlucky that Christipher Nkunku, who came in for Hwang, aimed the ball against the crossbar after 25 seconds. After less than an hour of play, the same Nkunku did not get the ball behind goalkeeper Roman Bürki after good preparatory work by Yussuf Poulsen. A few minutes later, Thorgan Hazard was just too late to cash in on a pass from Reus to the far post. In minute 71, the deserved 1-3 of RB Leipzig still followed: Dani Olmo hit the ball from about twenty meters behind Bürki. on the scoreboard. For the Norwegian it was again goal number 39 in 39 games in all competitions.