DFB Cup: Dortmund and Schalke continue to tremble – sports

Once again, BVB only wins in added time
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DORTMUND –
Pure excitement on Wednesday of the Cup! With 1st FC Cologne, Union Berlin and Holstein Kiel, three second division divisions have offered their clbad top opponents. To everyone's surprise, this was only enough for the Northern Lights, but in the Bundesliga duel, Bayer Leverkusen scored a big exclamation point in Mönchengladbach.

1. FC Köln – FC Schalke 04 5: 6 i. E. (1: 0)

The double goalkeeper and brilliant goalkeeper Alexander Nübel saved FC Schalke 04 from a surprising cut. Despite a 0-1 deficit in the 88th minute, the finalist won the second round of the DFB Cup with 6: 5 (1: 1, 1: 1, 0: 1) on penalties in league leaders of second division 1. FC Cologne and entered the second round.

A penalty from the hand of Nabil Bentaleb and therefore the first goal of the competition after 395 minutes that Schalke had saved Wednesday night in the goalless continuation. In the shootout, only the native of Cologne Mark Uth found his sentence converted in the round of 16. The two goalkeepers had already parried a penalty.

Borussia Dortmund – Union Berlin 3: 2 after (1: 0)

Borussia Dortmund continues its success story with a B-Elf. Thanks to Christian Pulisic (40), Maximilian Philipp (73) and Reus (120), the BVB remained undefeated in the 14th competitive match under coach Lucien Favre.

On the other hand, the Berlin had to accept the first defeat of the season in spite of the double compensation of Joker Sebastian Polter (63./88.).

Holstein Kiel – SC Freiburg 2: 1 (1: 1)

Holstein Kiel scored a surprise in the second round of the DFB Cup. The North Germans eliminated Bundesliga club SC Freiburg 2-1 (1: 1) from the competition and are therefore for the first time since 2012 in the second round.

The goals in front of 9361 spectators at the Holstein Stadium Nils Petersen scored in the first minute for Freiburg and Janni Sera (26) and David Kinsombi (79) for Kiel.

Borussia Mönchengladbach – Bayer Leverkusen 0: 5 (0: 2)

Bayer Leverkusen continued its upward trend impressively and, as in the previous year, reached the sixteenth-finals of the DFB Cup. The Bundesliga 12 He won the second consecutive game following a magnificent 6-2 win at Werder Bremen and defeated Wednesday night with 5: 0 (2: 0) and a perfect counter-football at Borussia Mönchengladbach.

RB Leipzig – TSG Hoffenheim 2: 0 (0: 0)

Timo Werner RB Leipzig shot for the second time after 2015 in the second round of the DFB Cup. The only national scorer at half-time in the 2-0 (0-0) draw against the Bundesliga opponent, TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, with his goals (48./56 minutes) on Wednesday night to him alone to make his decision.

Hoffenheim again failed with coach Nagelsmann in the second round – he never joined the future head coach of the knockout stages of the Leipzig Cup. RB remained uncompetitive for the fifth consecutive time in all competitions.

SC Weiche Flensburg – Werder Bremen 1: 5 (1: 3)

The Bundesliga club, Werder Bremen, had no problem with the fourth division of Flensburg, although hosts in Lübeck of Ilidio Pastor Santos (27) have meanwhile compensated at 1: 1. For Bremen, Claudio Pizarro (8th), Florian Kainz (38th), Davy Klabaden (44th) and Martin Harnik (76th and 81st) met.

Arminia Bielefeld – MSV Duisburg 0: 3 (0: 3)

For the first time since 2010, the MSV Duisburg reached the round of 16 of the DFB Cup. In the duel between the coach of the second division football team, Torsten Lieberknecht s' imposed Wednesday in the second round of the Cup away against Arminia Bielefeld 3-0 ( 30).

John Verhoek (12th minute), Fabian Schnellhardt (39.) and Cauly Oliveira Souza (45.) scored the goals for Duisburg, who also entered the final in the 2010/11 season. Bielefeld conceded after the last four defeats of the league in series at the next bankruptcy.

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