Dortmund's flu wave: Shock defeat against Leverkusen!

In an exciting meeting, Borussia Dortmund lost his home game against Bayer 04 Leverkusen 2: 3 on Friday evening. This defeat marked the first home bankruptcy on a Friday evening for the club for over 20 years. Despite the defeat, Dortmund was ahead in many statistics. However, coach Nuri Şahin critically commented on the preparation and the situation before the game.

The personnel situation was severely impaired by a flu wave, which led to a dozen players, including central defender Niklas Süle, due to infections. These included six other players, such as Emre Can, Nico Schlotterbeck and Ramy Bensebaini, who were also not available. This presented the team with great challenges, since only a trained central defender, Yannik Lührs, was available, who gave his starting eleven debut in the Bundesliga, such as Welt reported.

early goals and fighting spirit

Leverkusen started strongly and scored three goals through Nathan Tella and Patrik Schick within the first 20 minutes. Jamie Gitten was able to shorten to 1: 3 in the meantime. In view of the fast goals, Şahin showed incomprehension and emphasized that he was expecting more from his team. Despite the personnel bottlenecks and early residues, Dortmund showed morale and fought back into play. Lukas Nmecha praised the character and fighting spirit of his team.

Dortmund will be in the league and the Champions League in the next three weeks before an intensive phase. The next game will take place against Holstein Kiel on Tuesday. Nuri Şahin expressed hope that some players will get well again, but showed little optimism in terms of returning the sick actors. Despite the misery of injuries, Dortmund showed a dominant performance in the second round, but the necessary punch was lacking in order to achieve the compensation. Serhou Guirassy converted a penalty, but the team could no longer add more.