Borussia Dortmund did excellent business in the Bundesliga on Saturday afternoon. The team of trainer Edin Terzic was 3-0 too strong for the VfL Bochum of ex-Vitesse trainer Thomas Letsch at home. Youssoufa Moukoko wrote history with his two goals: at the age of 17 he is the youngest player ever in the Bundesliga to have at least ten goals to his name.
The home team was deadly effective and scored the opening goal after eight minutes. Moukoko remained strong on the ball after a pass from Niklas Süle and then started his way into the enemy’s goal. The German top talent then shot hard behind Bochum goalkeeper Manuel Riemann through the bottom of the bar: 1-0. Not even two minutes later doubled Those Boruses the lead. Donyell Malen decorated the penalty for Dortmund and tempted Vasilios Lampropoulos to commit a foul.
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17-year-old Youssoufa Moukoko once again shows his class at Dortmund with this wonderful goal.
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The Greek did that, so the ball went on the spot. Giovanni Reyna made good use of this and scored extremely coolly: 2-0. However, Letsch’s team came close to the connection goal several times. Simon Zoller almost scored the most beautiful goal of his career via an overhead kick, but the ball flew a few meters over Gregor Kobel’s goal. Jude Bellingham almost made it to the scoreboard shortly before half-time, but the Englishman just couldn’t get his shoe against Reyna’s hard cross.
The midfielder, who almost certainly seems to be going with England to the World Cup in Qatar, thought less than a minute later he would get the perfect opportunity to score. Referee Tobias Stieler gave Dortmund a penalty that Bellingham stood behind, but that decision was reversed by the video referee. The third goal would eventually fall before half-time after a rather remarkable moment. Bochum got a free kick in the half of Dortmund, which Riemann was watching at ease.
However, Bochum’s keeper was so far in front of his goal that he had ended up in ‘no man’s land’. Moukoko punished that mercilessly. The striker saw the goal in the distance completely empty and decided to hit from more than 35 meters: 3-0. The visitors came out of the dressing room well shortly after the break and saw Jordi Osei-Tutu’s shot via Kobel end up on the outside of the post, but the connecting goal would not fall in the second half. Letsch therefore lose for the second league game in a row with his Bochum, while Dortmund records the third consecutive victory in the Bundesliga.
| No. | Team | m | W | G | V | +/- | Pnt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1. FC Union Berlin | 12 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 26 |
| 2 | Bayern Munich | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 28 | 25 |
| 3 | Borussia Dortmund | 13 | 8 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 25 |
| 4 | SC Freiburg | 12 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 24 |
| 5 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 13 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 23 |
| 6 | RB Leipzig | 13 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 22 |
| 7 | Borussia Monchengladbach | 13 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 19 |
| 8 | Werder Bremen | 12 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 18 |
| 9 | TSG Hoffenheim | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
| 10 | FSV Mainz 05 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | -4 | 18 |
| 11 | VfL Wolfsburg | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 17 |
| 12 | 1. FC Cologne | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | -3 | 17 |
| 13 | FC Augsburg | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | -7 | 14 |
| 14 | Hertha BSC | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | -3 | 11 |
| 15 | VfB Stuttgart | 13 | 2 | 5 | 6 | -8 | 11 |
| 16 | Bayer Leverkusen | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -9 | 9 |
| 17 | VfL Bochum | 13 | 2 | 1 | 10 | -24 | 7 |
| 18 | Schalke 04 | 12 | 1 | 3 | 8 | -17 | 6 |