Athletic achieves a prestigious victory against Dortmund

Athletic has today achieved a prestigious victory against Borussia Dortmund, one of the colossi of European football, although it must also be said that the German team, third in the last Bundesliga, has appeared on the Kybunpark pitch without any of the ten internationals who participated in the last European Championship. The one who did play the first half was the Norwegian giant Erling
Haaland, who distributed innumerable greetings at halftime, but some of his figures such as Emre
Dog, Hummels, Thorgan
Harzard, Meunier, Axel
Witsel, Bellingham, Raphael
Guerreiro, Manuel
Akanji Y Delaney.

In any case, this is the second victory in the Sankt Gallen concentration after the defeat in the premiere against the local team and the 1-0 achieved last Tuesday against Dynamo Kiev in Winterthur.

Marcelino opted for an eleven formed by Ezkieta, Ander
Cap, Nuñez, Yeray, Lekue, Nico
Williams, Dani
Garcia, Zarraga, Black pudding, Sancet and Iñaki
Williams. Dortmund began dominating the game, but little by little Athletic was regaining control of the ball to hit the rival field. Unai
Nuñez He controlled the edge of the small area after a long pass, but could not finish. Shortly afterwards, the Portuguese central defender also headed a good corner kick from Jon
Black pudding, who has played his first game this preseason after joining the concentration last Wednesday after beating Covid-19.

They were Athletic's best minutes in the first half. Nico
Williams he finished off in the 9th minute after a good combination with his brother Iñaki, but the best play of the lions in these first forty-five minutes was played by Oihan
Sancet with one of its characteristics torn from the center of the field that Black pudding it cannot culminate.

From there, the game has taken on another face for Athletic. Marcelino has relieved Nico
Williams for the other Nico, Highlander, and after a few minutes he had to do the same with Yeray, who had to leave the pitch after taking a ball from the same goal mouth on the Germans' best chance before half-time. Iñigo
Martinez has entered its place.

The first half ended with a shot from Dortmund that went high and a shot from Papadopoulos That almost got her into her own goal. In the final stretch of this period also came the anecdote of the match. A child who was behind the goal took advantage of a corner kick to get closer to Haaland with the game at stake.

As usual, Marcelino he has modified almost his entire eleven in the second half. The team after the break was formed by Julen
Agirrezabala, Petxarroman, They lived, Iñigo
Martinez, Balenziaga, Berenguer, Victor, Vesga, Muniain, Raul
Garcia Y Villalibre.

Athletic has advanced on the scoreboard with a penalty goal scored by Raul
Garcia after a lack of Burki about Villalibre. The Navarrese took the maximum penalty very calmly and the ball entered the center of the German goal. Shortly after, the lions extended the advantage with a shot of They lived at the far post after a foul well dribbled by Alex
Berenguer from the right wing. Precisely, the Navarrese has been able to put land in the middle on the scoreboard but has not been successful despite the fact that he has planted only before the goal Burki. Dortmund have had a chance at the edge of regulation time that has derailed Julen
Agirrezabala. There was no more time. The second victory of the preseason of the roiblancos falls.

BORUSSIA DORTMUND, 0

Kobel (Bürki, min. 46), Passlack, Maloney, Papadopoulos, Schulz, Dahoud (Lüthe-Frie), Brandt, Knauff, Gürpüz (Wolf, min. 46; Bynce-Gittens, min. 62), Reus, Haaland (Tigges , min. 46).

ATHLETIC, 2

Eleven first half: Ezkieta, Ander Capa, Nuñez, Yeray (Iñigo Martínez, min. 33), Lekue, Nico Williams (Nico Serrano, min. 24), Dani García, Zarraga, Morcillo, Sancet, Iñaki Williams.

Eleven second time: Agirrezabala, Petxarroman, Vivian, Iñigo Martínez, Balenziaga, Berenguer, Vencedor, Vesga, Muniain, Raúl García, Villalibre.

Goals:

0-1: Raúl García, from a penalty (min. 50)

0-2: Vivian (min. 57)

Referee:

Sven Wolfensberger.

He admonished Bürki (min. 49), Petxarroman (min. 59), Vesga (min. 74).

Spectators: 4,000