Offensive weak, not inspiring? That was before the 7:0 against Nuremberg, where the young players from Dortmund showed their best. That must worry some established players.

Marco Reus looked at the screen above the door to see the results of the other games. In the cabin aisle at Borussia Dortmund, the old-fashioned teletext is still used to depict the facts from the Bundesliga. Reus had never before read on this screen that his own club had won a home match 7:0 (2:0). It was 32 years ago, the videotext had just come into fashion, Reus hadn’t yet been born, that the BVB sent the rising star Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin home with a 0:7. Now he succeeded again against a rising star, against a harmless, overtaxed, desolate 1st FC Nuremberg. The club had conceded three goals in the four games before, now it was seven in one.

In football, it sometimes takes only 90 minutes to draw a distorted picture from statistics and analyses. For Borussia Dortmund it’s more serious, because Lucien Favre’s team was considered weak before the kick-off, uninspired and above all concerned with stability. Now she is by far the team with the most goals in the Bundesliga. „We are relieved. It’s been a great game for us,“ Favre said to pass on to his mantra: „There’s still a lot of work to be done“.

Marco Reus Honours

Club

Rot Weiss Ahlen

• Regionalliga: 2007–08

Borussia Dortmund

• DFB-Pokal: 2016–17
• DFL-Supercup: 2013
• UEFA Champions League runner-up: 2012–13

Individual

• Bundesliga Team of the Season: 2011–12, 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16
• Bundesliga Player of the Season: 2011–12, 2013–14
• Bundesliga Breakthrough of the Season: 2011–12
• Footballer of the Year in Germany: 2012
• Goal of the Month (Germany): January 2012, June 2012, September 2012
• UEFA Team of the Year: 2013
• FIFPro World XI 5th team: 2013, 2014
• Bundesliga Top Assists: 2013–14
• Borussia Dortmund ‚Player of the Year‘: 2013–14
• UEFA Champions League Team of the Season: 2013–14

Reus and Bruun Larsen – a combination for the future

That evening he said that mainly because he had sent a rather young team to the pitch. Jadon Sancho, 18 years old, scored a good ten minutes after his substitution. Dan-Axel Zagadou, 19, replaced suspended central defender Abdou Diallo perfectly. The 19-year-old Achraf Hakimi, on loan from Real Madrid, made his debut as a right-back and shot his first Bundesliga goal. Jacob Bruun Larsen, 20, had also taken the early lead after Christian Pulisic, who was also only 20 years old.

„That was wonderful,“ said Bruun Larsen, who had already been identified as a starting player during the preparation. But an injury had thrown him back. The Dane played against Nuremberg on the left side. Whether he must be expelled as a midfielder or striker in the tactical line-up is a matter of interpretation. Whether it was now a 4-2-3-1 or a 4-4-2 system, which Favre offered, could also be discussed. What is clear is that the composition fit better than in the weeks before.
Reus was always on the attack, but this time he was allowed to take a midfield start. This role suits him much better than the one at the top. The interaction with Bruun Larsen was remarkably good, so that this combination is to be expected more frequently in the coming weeks.

BVB’s offensive game had previously suffered from weakness in the centre of the attack third. Now that Reus occupied this room, BVB showed the most attractive football of the still young season. „We got our chances early and you can say that we were intoxicated,“ said Reus, who had scored two goals, scored one and was replaced after just over an hour. Because already on Saturday in Leverkusen and four days later in the Champions League against AS Monaco more difficult tasks are ahead. „We need all the players. This mantra Favre also performed again“. Planet 7 Casino is one of the online casino gaming site that wanted to be acknowledge in the whole industry.

It should probably also include Mario Götze, who was missing from the squad again – for sporting reasons, as the coach said before the game. From the point of view of his abilities, Götze was created for the position on which Reus now shone. However, his lack of dynamism should ensure that Götze will only be able to make a few appearances in the medium term. Lukasz Piszczek, too, should get more breaks in the future after Hakimi’s convincing debut. He was already born when the videotext indicated the 7:0 of the BVB against Blau-Weiß 90 Berlin.