Thanks To Erling Haaland, Dortmund Win Dramatically Over Hoffenheim

Erling Haaland (Photo: Twitter/@Bundesliga_EN)

JAKARTA - Erling Haaland scored a late goal to bring Borussia Dortmund to a dramatic 3-2 victory over TSG Hoffenheim in the third week of the German League match at Signal Iduna Park Stadium, Friday local time (Saturday western Indonesia time).

The player who was just named 2020/21 Champions League Best Forward, scored his goal in the first minute of injury time, just moments after the visitors had equalized right at the end of normal time through the National Conference of Dabbur.

Quoted from ANTARA, Dortmund picked up their second victory this season and temporarily climbed to the top of the standings with six points, while waiting for the other eight third-week matches to be played until Sunday (29/8) local time.

Meanwhile, Hoffenheim (4), who suffered their first defeat of the season, has slipped to fourth place, according to the German League's official website.

The match was a stalemate for almost the first half-hour with the only chance on target coming from Haaland's weak header from Raphael Guerreiro's cross.

In the 39th minute, Hoffenheim threatened through Jacob Bruun Larsen's through ball which Christoph Baumgartner tried to finish, but goalkeeper Gregor Kobel was still swiftly guarding the home goal.

A minute later at the opposite end of the field, it was goalkeeper Oliver Baumann's turn to save on Donyell Malen's shot which ended a stab from the left side of the penalty box.

The deadlock was broken just four minutes into the second half when Giovanni Reyna was able to use Bellingham's cross to beat Baumann and give Dortmund the lead.

The lead was lost in the 61st minute when Baumgartner fired home an accurate shot from a tight angle after chasing a through ball from Dennis Geiger to make it 1-1.

However, eight minutes later Bellingham managed to restore Dortmund's advantage with a shot that darted through the crowd of players inside the Hoffenheim penalty box.

The three points that were in front of Dortmund's eyes suddenly seemed to disappear because in the 90th minute Hoffenheim managed to convert a corner kick situation which ended with Dabbur's close-range shot to make the score 2-2.

But Haaland came to the rescue as he capitalized on the chaos in front of Hoffenheim's goal to put Dortmund ahead again in the first minute of injury time.

Baumann actually appeared relatively quick to deny two successive shots from Youssoufa Moukoko and Marius Wolf, but his teammates failed to immediately clear a wild ball which was later grabbed by Haaland to score Dortmund's winner.

The two teams will only meet again on Saturday 11 September, after the international break, when Dortmund travels to BayArena to face Bayer Leverkusen and Hoffenheim hosts FSV Mainz at PreZero Arena.