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. Goals 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 trendy model of Europe’s elite membership competitors and handed Dortmund their fourth straight defeat in all competitions.
Last season’s finalists Dortmund, who opened the scoring within the fifteenth minute via Serhou Guirassy‘s stylish 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 stress on under-fire coach Nuri Sahin regardless that his gamers confirmed their help by becoming a member of him in a bunch hug after Guirassy netted his seventh objective in as many Champions league matches this season.
“I think we will sit down together tonight or tomorrow in Dortmund. Right now the game is too fresh,” mentioned Sahin.
Dortmund sporting director Lars Ricken refused to ensure the coach’s job after the sport, telling Amazon Prime: “You will not get an off-the-cuff decision from me in Italy based on emotion.”
“We all want the best for Borussia Dortmund, we will discuss what is best for the club and what the solutions are so that we can get back on the road to success,” Ricken added.
Bologna are twenty seventh on solely 5 factors however it might have been troublesome 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The seven-time Italian champions gained a preliminary spherical match towards Anderlecht within the outdated European Cup in 1964, however have been eradicated by the Belgians and did not return to the highest degree of continental competitors till this season.
“We’re going out but for me today it’s as if we’d won a quarter-final or semi-final, I’m just so pleased,” mentioned Italiano to Sky.
“There’s so much joy for our first win in the Champions League, it’s a dream come true for me.”
Bologna have been livid with the spot-kick, for a tender foul on Waldemar Anton, with which Guirassy gave Dortmund the lead.
The hosts have been even angrier when referee Serdar Gozubuyuk refused to offer 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.
But Italy worldwide Orsolini, who has scored eight instances this season, left the sphere along with his head in his shirt 10 minutes earlier than the break after being pressured off with what regarded like a hamstring harm and changed by Iling-Junior.
Orsolini’s departure did not deflate Bologna nevertheless, with the Italians persevering with to push for an equaliser which sport within the 71st minute when, after being brilliantly despatched via by Charalampos Lykogiannis, Jens Odgaard offered an ideal low cross for Dallinga to faucet residence.
And seconds later Bologna have been forward via Iling-Junior, who pounced on the rebound after Dallinga was denied a second by Gregor Kobel and gave his workforce a historic win.
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