Marcus Thuram scored on his Bundesliga comeback from suspension to seal a 4-2 win for Borussia Monchengladbach over Borussia Dortmund on Friday.
Thuram, who missed 4 league video games and one cup match after spitting at an opponent in December, scored with a header from Florian Neuhaus’ nook within the 79th minute after approaching in its place.
Dortmund has just one level from its final three video games, growing the strain on coach Edin Terzic, who took over from the fired Lucien Favre on Dec. 13.
“They’re always the same mistakes that we make. Then it’s difficult to win a game. It really stinks,” mentioned Dortmund captain Marco Reus, whose staff beforehand misplaced to Bayer Leverkusen and drew with lowly Mainz.
League chief Bayern Munich can transfer 13 factors away from Dortmund on Sunday, whereas Terzic’s staff now faces a battle to safe the final place for Champions League qualification.
Gladbach changed Dortmund in fourth place forward of the remainder of the 18th spherical, when Dortmund might drop decrease with Wolfsburg, Union Berlin and Eintracht Frankfurt all nonetheless to play.
“There were too many setbacks,” Terzic mentioned. “When you concede four goals it’s hard to win a game.”
It was Dortmund’s first loss to Gladbach since April 11, 2015, when Favre as Gladbach coach oversaw a 3-1 win at house over Jurgen Klopp’s Dortmund staff.
Gladbach made a livid begin and had the ball within the web inside the primary minute. However, Neuhaus’ objective was dominated out by means of VAR for a foul by Jonas Hofmann on Jude Bellingham.
The house aspect didn’t have to attend lengthy earlier than Nico Elvedi opened the scoring with a header off Hofmann’s free kick within the eleventh.
Erling Haaland replied in high quality style within the twenty second. Raphael Guerreiro received the ball from Alassane Plea and performed it to Jadon Sancho, who despatched a wonderfully weighted cross for Haaland to chip over goalkeeper Yann Sommer contained in the far publish.
The Norwegian obtained his second six minutes later, once more arrange by Sancho after he mixed with Marco Reus to elude a bunch of Gladbach defenders. Haaland turned sharply and fired contained in the left publish.
But Elvedi scored his second 4 minutes later, scoring on the rebound after Roman Burki stopped Lars Stindl’s free kick.
Both sides missed good probabilities earlier than the break – Haaland failed to attach with the ball when he may need accomplished his hat trick – earlier than Neuhaus arrange Ramy Bensebaini for Gladbach’s third within the fiftieth.
Thuram changed Hofmann within the sixty fifth. Breel Embolo, who generated headlines for breaking coronavirus restrictions final week, got here on shortly afterward.
Thuram scored on his comeback whereas Burki denied Embolo a couple of minutes later.
