Moukoko pulled Borussia Dortmund out of Ruhr derby depression

Youssoufa Moukoko, a 17-year-old boy who was just starting to really get to know the Bundesliga, brought joy to a Borussia Dortmund on the verge of falling into depression. The youngster could not have been more punctual, coming off the bench and popping on in the 78th minute to provide one of the most rousing wins for the ‘borussers’ as Rhur Basin Derby against Schalke 04. His early goal averted the threat of a crisis that had reached the top of the Signal Iduna Park.

If not Marco Reusstretched in the first half, Terzic’s team did not finish the week without victories after seeing it away from Leipzig (3-0) and see him leave in the last minute of the match City of Manchester (1-2) in a visit where Haaland was also cold in his ‘borusser’ feelings. A victory above with happy dreams: Dortmund are sleeping leaders.

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SCHALKE 04

1 – Borussia Dortmund: Alexander Mayer; Thomas Meunier, Mats Hummels, Nico Schlotterbeck, Marius Wolf; Jude Bellingham, Salih Ozcan, Julian Brandt (Emre Can, m.84), Marco Reus (Giovanni Reyna, m.32 (Thorgan Hazard, m.84)), Daniel Malen (Karim Adeyemi, m.64); and Anthony Modeste (Youssoufa Moukoko, m.64).

0 – Schalke: Alexander Schwow; Henning Matriciani, Sepp Van den Berg, Maya Yoshida, Tobias Mohr; Tom Krauss, Florian Flick; Marius Bulter (Alex Kral, m.76), Dominick Drexler, Jordan Larsson (Sebastian Polter, m.58); and Simon Terodde (Kenan Karaman, m.58).

The objectives: 1-0, m.79 Youssoufa Moukoko

Referee: Felix Brych. He showed yellow cards to Schalke’s Sepp Van den Berg and Simon Terodde and Borussia Dortmund’s Anthony Modeste, Adeyemi and Emre Can.

Incidents: The match on the seventh day of the Bundesliga was played at Signal Iduna Park in Dortmund in front of 81,365 spectators.

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The initial enthusiasm to drown Rhur Basin’s derby sorrows at the bustling Signal Iduna Park has melted away, lowering the local temperature of the uncompromising approach of Schalke 04, focused 100% on suppressing the offensives of Terzic’s men with their ultra-conservative approach and did not care about giving up the attack as happened in the first half with a header from the want. Bellingham as a sad occasion. And the monotony turned to pessimism when Marco Reus retired with an injury and on a stretcher half an hour later, Reyna took his place.

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Schalke wouldn’t change their plan one iota in the second half in their intention to take down Borussia Dortmund but they also didn’t leave their comfort zone and instead of taking a step forward to threaten the rival area, he returned the other to further protect himself. The match demanded recklessness and courage and Malen took it with a run down the left wing that ended with a great save by Schwolow.

Dortmund became academic, following the theory of repeated attacks on the wings to break down low blocks like Schalke. Malen and Brandt they were supported by their full-backs Meuner and Wolf, but the ‘borussers’ lacked the speed to change the ball on the flanks and above all, finisher in the lateral centers. Kramer’s team tried not to concede in three quarters Jude Bellinghamalthough the English, omnipresent, delayed its position or fell to the band to participate further.

In game contexts like this it is when Haaland misses the most, and Haller waits to recover, Anthony Modest, Despite his recognized prestige as a scorer -20 last year in Cologne-, he is still dry as a ‘borusser’ spear, only one goal in eight games. The solutions were in the bank and they provided them Adeyemi in its overflow and, above all, the audacity Moukoko, The German authored the long-awaited goal from Wolf’s center in the 78th minute. Who better than a waiter from the subsidiary to understand what the Schalke 04 rivalry means.

This is a perfect execution of the ‘borussers’, gathering play to one side, changing orientation to arrival of the wolf On the contrary, and with him the remote directing of an accurate center of the first class that the German finished in the small area. As the veterans get along, the kid is ready to mitigate any loss.

The Schalke-04 He was not attacked throughout the derby and was expected in the final stretch as necessity forced him. But nothing at all from those of Frank Kramer to the relief of Borussia Dortmund, built from depression to happiness by Moukoko.