Hamburg is no-match for BVB
By: Tucker | April 25th, 2009Amongst a sea of voices in a sold-out Westfalenstadion, BVB continued on the path to one of their best finishes in a decade as they sent Hamburg home with a 2-0 defeat. The Dortmunder’s victory is fifth successive triumph with a first goal of gaining entry in the Europa League.
Following Jürgen Klopp’s decree to “”stay hungry”, BVB dug their heels in and gave no ground uncontested. Amongst the backdrop of sea of black and yellow flags Hamburg’s much talked of attack was no match and were unable to find their way into the final third. Midway of the half, Serbia’s Neven Subotić woke HSV up with a drive from thirty-five metres that rattled the bar only to be matched seven minutes later by Nelson Valdez that did the same. If HSV felt fortunate to escape the two goals, their day turned sour shortly thereafter. As Dortmunder’s sang out in praise from the stands, BVB answered as Sebastian Kehl found the needed goal for the 1-0 lead. From roughly forty-metres Nuri Şahin sent a perfect lob to the captain on the left who followed the ball through Frank Rost’s legs from thirteen metres. The goal was in-fact set up through a consistant tactical plan of stressing width via Jakub Błaszczykowski endless assaults and in-essence ripping the heart of HSV in tatters. With the lead, there was little doubt that Jürgen Klopp would turn the screw and force HSV to take greater chances if they were to find the equalizer. Tactically it was a master-stroke as schwarzgelben were strolling to the victory with less than a quarter of hour left. The tactical plan fell off-course with ten minutes remaining when Roman Weidenfeller’s clearance was insufficient and Ivica Olić attempted to take advantage of the ‘keeper off the line. However that effort fell shy and as time wound down Alexander Frei converted from the spot to make it 2-0 after Michael Gravgaard was adjudged a penalty for bringing Kevin-Prince Boateng.
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I haven’t been following BVB for too long, but these past string of games have been the most exciting that I have ever seen them play. The team seems like they have turned the corner and realized how good they can be every week. I know eventually the streak will end, but I already have high hopes for next year. We have no glaring positional weaknesses anymore (although i’d like to clone Kuba if possible) and our veterans are leading the way while the younger players rapidly mature. If this pace keeps up dortmund will be a team to reckon with for years to come.
I also might be Jurgen Klopp’s biggest fan. He’s a BAMF.
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jajaja, you have me trying to figure out what that means but I am coming up short.
However the more you get to know the club, history and area you really grow at “home” with BVB. Jürgen Klopp has done a great job and they’ve come around to his style nicely. It will be tough but Europe is not out of the question.
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BAMF? Bad A** Mother F***er
I do enjoy reading this blog quite a bit. You do a great job and I like reading the opponent’s response as well. I just wish the games weren’t on at 9:30AM here.
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jajaja – now this is a good English class for me : )
I am like you I enjoy all the blogs here, particularly of clubs fighting at bottom (i.e. Gladbach, Bochum, Hannover, Frankfurt). I know a few cannot write as much as they like because they are moving up in playing but I find their posts helpful.
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