Borussia Dortmund did not struggle to beat modest Duisburg at home in the first round of the Pokal. The team led by Lucien Favre endorsed a hand to the whole of the third division of the Bundesliga in a match where Erling Haaland made headlines: BVB's goal-scoring threat started in the black-yellow attack with Sancho, but The Norwegian star, despite the feast that his teammates scored, was left without scoring his first goal in season two wearing the 'borusser' outfit.
It had no consequences. Borussia's offensive section was in charge of making things clear from the start. It took him ten minutes to get into the Duisburg, but from there, he made him spend a very violent late night at home. Sancho opened the scoring from eleven meters, the brand new signing Bellingham and Thorgan Hazard extended the rent before the break. The fish was already sold, but the BVB wanted more. The locals had taken ten for an ugly entry from Volkmer on Haaland and Dortmund did not hesitate to give the finishing touch to Duisburg: Reyna and Reus, the latter after a total of 223 days off due to a serious muscle injury, closed the victorious debut of BVB at the Pokal.
Arminia Bielefeld, promoted this year to the Bundesliga and who fell in the field of modest RW Essen, could not progress, from the fourth German category, 1-0 with a solitary goal from Simon Engelmann at 33 minutes. A second team, Hannover, executioner of the Würzburger Kickers, also made it through the first round. by 2-3. While Hamburg, also from the Bundesliga-2, succumbed in the field of Dynamo Dresden, third, by a resounding 4-1.