Chapter 37: Honor or Pressure?

Hofmann's goal opened the door for Dortmund's players and Dortmund added another in the 86th minute. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

This time it was Reuss who tripped the ball into the box and fell to the ground, and the referee sentenced Braunschweig to death.

The West** Stadium was thunderous.

Penalty!

This goal will definitely be scored, and if you score, you will seal the win! This game is won, and Dortmund will top the league standings with the victory of this game!

Reus then took the penalty himself and scored the spot-kick into the Brunswick net, giving Dortmund a 2-0 lead at home.

Including the players, everyone's hearts that had been hanging for more than 80 minutes finally fell back into their stomachs.

But God doesn't seem to want Dortmund to win the game so easily.

In the 89th minute, Braunschweig won a corner kick. It was Braunschweig's third corner of the game.

The corner kick flew to the goal, and Mark, who returned to the front of the goal, jumped up to clear the ball with a header, but he accidentally put the football into his own goal!

"Ahh......h The ball is in! Mark ...... Mark Wagner scored an own goal!

Goalkeeper Weidenfeller was caught off guard by Mark's header and could only watch the ball fly into the near corner and could do nothing.

Braunschweig players celebrate a goal.

Mark held his head and looked frustrated.

Originally, the two-goal lead was quite stable, but his own goal suddenly put the team in a dangerous situation......

He blamed himself, felt guilty, and was a little scared.

Mark's fears were justified, and the own goal immediately re-energized the atmosphere - counting stoppage time, there were still a few minutes left before the game was over, and those few minutes were needed to score another ...... Cooked ducks can fly!

After going into stoppage time, Jurgen Klopp used up his last substitution of the game. He replaced Mkhitaryan with Marvin Duksch.

In this game, Mkhitaryan, who had an ankle injury before, got the opportunity to start, but perhaps because he had been injured before and had not practiced well with the team, in the game, Mkhitaryan's performance was not very good, and it can only be said that it was average.

Marvin Dukesch, on the other hand, is a 19-year-old striker from the Borussia Dortmund Academy. With Lewandowski gone, he may have more opportunities to play this season, but whether he can really establish himself in the first team and be a useful addition to the squad will depend on whether he can seize his chances.

Jurgen Klopp replaced Mkhitaryan with Dukesch, not only to kill a little time with a substitution in the final minutes of the game, but also to put pressure on Braunschweig to fight back against Borussia Dortmund for the remainder of the game.

If they do, then then Borussia Dortmund's counter-attack is not vegetarian.

He's just giving Braunschweig a wake-up call to think behind them when they want to equalize......

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The substitution was a bit effective, and in the last few minutes, Braunschweig didn't cause any problems for Dortmund's goal, in fact, if it wasn't for Mark's own own goal, Braunschweig would not have had a chance to score.

In the end, at the end of the game, Dortmund beat promoted Mabraunschweig 2-1 at home.

Although the game was won, it was not an easy win for Dortmund.

The new season of the Bundesliga will definitely not be smooth sailing, even the promoted horses can cause them such a big problem, if they are replaced by a slightly stronger team in the middle of the table, it is not good to really beat Dortmund at the West** Stadium.

Jurgen Klopp admitted in a press conference after the game that his side were not playing well enough, but he also felt that the win was more important to Dortmund than anything else.

With the victory in this game, Dortmund has accumulated six points from two consecutive wins and is at the top of the league standings.

However, there are as many as four teams with six points like them, with Bayern Munich, Bayer Leverkusen, Mainz, and Werder Bremen all accumulating six points, ranking second to fifth.

Borussia Dortmund are also only in first place on goal difference, which is very shaky.

Of course, when it comes to football, the result is more important than anything else, as long as you win the game, it doesn't matter how you win it or how hard it is.

This ranking speaks for itself.

At the same time, Dortmund's 2-1 home win over Braunschweig was Dortmund's 20th consecutive victory.

Last season, they surpassed Inter Milan's 17 in a row with 18 consecutive wins, making them the team with the longest winning streak in Europe's top five leagues.

This season, however, they continued to work hard and won two more games in a row, extending that new record to 20 games.

Jurgen Klopp's side have won the title while also setting a record that will be difficult for future generations to achieve.

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Borussia Dortmund hosted Werder Bremen at home, but Dortmund will have to wait five or six days for the fourth round of the league, but Dortmund will play the fourth round of the league on August 27, three days after the league game, because on August 30, they have another game in Prague, the Czech capital, where they will face last season's Europa League winners Chelsea.

This season has indeed been a new and tough test for Borussia Dortmund.

Because next summer's World Cup in Brazil, the league schedule is very dense, and the Champions League and domestic cup schedules will also be adjusted accordingly, and the load on the players will be greater than usual season. In December, the whole Dortmund team will go to Japan to participate in the Club World Cup, for which they will miss several domestic league games, and the missed games will be arranged in the following time, if they can still reach the Champions League semi-finals, this will lead to a very dense and compact schedule for Dortmund's new season.

Such a dense schedule is a severe test of the players' physical fitness, as well as a serious test of the team's injury control.

Now the league has just started, and the team has suffered injuries one after another. Gundogan suffered a back injury, Mkhitaryan suffered an ankle injury and Piszczek also suffered an injury......

After winning the league for three consecutive years, Dortmund's championship division seems to be a bit of a strong end.

After a record-breaking twenty consecutive wins, Dortmund's sparkling surface hides such a crisis.

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Against Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund continued to rotate, with Sven Bender and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang on the bench.

With Piszczek still out of condition, Grosskreutz once again showed his panacea, starting the game at right-back.

Borussia Dortmund also struggled hard at home stadium, with neither side scoring in the first half.

It was only ten minutes into the second half that Mark Wagner broke the deadlock.

The goal came from Grosskreutz's cross assist.

But after taking a one-goal lead, Dortmund did not take advantage of the victory to chase, not because they didn't want to, but because they were a little inadequate.

From the 66th minute, the two sides continued to deploy troops and commanders. Naturally, Werder Bremen were not reconciled to lose the game by one goal, and they were still thinking that they could draw or beat Borussia Dortmund away from home.

Commentator Marcel Leif kept mentioning Dortmund's winning streak, and he thought that perhaps it was this record that made the Dortmund players carry a burden, some of them didn't know how to play, and they thought too much about the game.

Fortunately, in the end, Dortmund withstood Werder Bremen's crazy counterattack at the last moment, and won another victory 1-0 at home.

"The game is over! Dortmund won again! No matter what the situation was or what the process was, Dortmund won the game after all. Twenty-one league win in a row! They are setting new records while also accumulating the weight of their baggage...... Look at the tired looks of the Borussia Dortmund players, the league has just started, and they have won three in a row, but the expressions of the players are not relaxed......

There were some close-ups of the Dortmund players in the broadcast screen, and it was true, not the excitement after the 21-game winning streak, on the contrary, many people looked ...... How can I say it? If you say it nicely, you will be calm, and you will not be shocked by honor and disgrace. To say that it is difficult to say that it is at a loss, it seems that I don't know whether I can continue to win like this in the future.

In the post-match press conference, Jurgen Klopp did not admit that the 21-game winning streak had put pressure on the team.

"No, no one is too victorious. We're looking for a win every game, so it's the same with or without a record. It's not like too many victories and consecutive wins will put a lot of pressure on you. The players are just a little tired......"

A reporter immediately asked: "But the season has just begun, and it has not been a double game a week recently, does this mean that Dortmund's pre-season training camp to China to play a commercial tour has caused the team's physical reserves to not do a good job?"

Klopp refused to answer the question.