Borussia Dortmund’s struggles continued on Tuesday after the troubled Bundesliga outfit fell to a 2-1 defeat at Bologna which dented their hopes of direct qualification for the final 16 of the Champions League. Objectives in a matter of seconds within the second half from substitutes Thijs Dallinga and Samuel Iling-Junior gave Bologna their first ever win within the fashionable model of Europe’s elite membership competitors and handed Dortmund their fourth straight defeat in all competitions.
Final season’s finalists Dortmund, who opened the scoring within the fifteenth minute by means of Serhou Guirassy‘s elegant chipped penalty, are thirteenth on 12 factors, one level from the highest eight with different groups set to finish the penultimate spherical of league section matches on Wednesday.
Tuesday’s defeat piled extra strain on under-fire coach Nuri Sahin despite the fact that his gamers confirmed their help by becoming a member of him in a gaggle hug after Guirassy netted his seventh aim in as many Champions league matches this season.
“I believe we’ll sit down collectively tonight or tomorrow in Dortmund. Proper now the sport is simply too recent,” stated Sahin.
Dortmund sporting director Lars Ricken refused to ensure the coach’s job after the sport, telling Amazon Prime: “You’ll not get an informal determination from me in Italy based mostly on emotion.”
“All of us need the perfect for Borussia Dortmund, we’ll talk about what’s finest for the membership and what the options are in order that we are able to get again on the highway to success,” Ricken added.
Bologna are twenty seventh on solely 5 factors however it will have been tough to inform judging by the celebrations of the gamers, coach Vincenzo Italiano and 30,000 followers at a leaping Stadio Renato Dall’Ara.
Bologna ‘dream’ realised
The seven-time Italian champions received a preliminary spherical match towards Anderlecht within the outdated European Cup in 1964, however had been eradicated by the Belgians and did not return to the highest stage of continental competitors till this season.
“We’re going out however for me right now it is as if we might received a quarter-final or semi-final, I am simply so happy,” stated Italiano to Sky.
“There’s a lot pleasure for our first win within the Champions League, it is a dream come true for me.”
Bologna had been livid with the spot-kick, for a delicate foul on Waldemar Anton, with which Guirassy gave Dortmund the lead.
The hosts had been even angrier when referee Serdar Gozubuyuk refused to provide them a penalty of their very own for the same shirt tug on Dan Ndoye simply because the Swiss regarded set to attain from a Riccardo Orsolini cross.
That incident, within the nineteenth minute, appeared to get up a beforehand timid Bologna who then dominated, with Orsolini, twice, and Santiago Castro going near netting their first Champions League targets.
However Italy worldwide Orsolini, who has scored eight occasions this season, left the sector along with his head in his shirt 10 minutes earlier than the break after being compelled off with what regarded like a hamstring harm and changed by Iling-Junior.
Orsolini’s departure did not deflate Bologna nonetheless, with the Italians persevering with to push for an equaliser which recreation within the 71st minute when, after being brilliantly despatched by means of by Charalampos Lykogiannis, Jens Odgaard offered an ideal low cross for Dallinga to faucet residence.
And seconds later Bologna had been forward by means of Iling-Junior, who pounced on the rebound after Dallinga was denied a second by Gregor Kobel and gave his crew a historic win.
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