Dortmund beat Augsburg on Haller’s return from most cancers

Borussia Dortmund clinched a 4-3 thriller at house towards Augsburg on Sunday as Sebastien Haller returned to the staff after battling testicular most cancers.

Dortmund took the lead 3 times, just for Augsburg to equalise, exploiting the house facet’s disorganised defence.

Dortmund supervisor Edin Terzic introduced on Jamie Bynoe-Gittens and Gio Reyna within the seventieth minute, with each wingers scoring targets to assist carry their staff to victory.

The house facet had the higher of the early proceedings earlier than Jude Bellingham broke by within the twenty ninth minute.

The 19-year-old Englishman collected the ball on the sting of the field and despatched the Augsburg defenders the incorrect method, earlier than drilling a low shot into the underside proper nook of the online.

Regardless of Dortmund’s dominance of possession, Augsburg hit again within the fortieth minute, when Dion Beljo dispossessed a sloppy Nico Schlotterbeck earlier than passing to Arne Maier, who hammered house.

Schlotterbeck redeemed himself instantly, nonetheless, heading in a Julian Brandt free-kick to place Dortmund up 2-1.

Augsburg equalised in stoppage time, Ermedin Demirovic chipping over Dortmund ‘keeper Gregor Kobel for his sixth aim of the marketing campaign.

Haller got here off the bench within the 61st minute to rapturous applause from the house and away followers, his first aggressive look since Could 2022.

With the sport drifting in direction of extra dropped factors for the house facet, Bynoe-Gittens and Reyna had been introduced on within the seventieth minute.

The house facet reclaimed the lead nearly instantly, with the 18-year-old Englishman Bynoe-Gittens beautifully curling the ball in from outdoors the field.

Augsburg’s David Colina hit again lower than a minute later however Dortmund reclaimed the lead two minutes after that, when US ahead Reyna lifted the ball over Rafal Gikiewicz and into the again of the online.

Dortmund held on in a nervous last couple of minutes for the three factors which moved them into sixth place within the desk.

In Sunday’s late recreation, Borussia Moenchengladbach host Bayer Leverkusen.

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