DORTMUND, Germany (Reuters) -Borussia Dortmund’s Erling Haaland scored as soon as in both half to steer his workforce to a 3-0 victory over backside membership Greuther Fuerth on Wednesday and reduce the hole to leaders Bayern Munich to six factors.
The Norwegian opened his account within the thirty third minute after which grabbed his 53rd league purpose in 53 Bundesliga matches within the 82nd with a strong header.
Dutchman Donyell Malen added a 3rd with a sensible end on the far submit within the 89th for his fifth purpose in six video games in all competitions.
Dortmund are in second place on 34 factors, with Bayern prime on 40 following their 5-0 demolition of VfB Stuttgart on Tuesday.
“The efficiency was loads of onerous work. We had possibilities however we had been a bit sloppy, not contemporary sufficient,” Dortmund coach Marco Rose stated after his workforce’s first win within the final three league video games.
“We made too many errors, had some good phases and in addition had good possibilities. But general it was not the efficiency we needed. Everyone felt it.”
“It was not a superb sport from us and expectations from us are excessive. But I hope the result’s some comfort,” Rose stated.
Fuerth, who received their first win of the season final week, saved the hosts at bay for about 25 minutes earlier than an excellent Haaland no-look cross discovered Thorgan Hazard whose one-touch end went in however was dominated offside.
Haaland scored a bit later along with his well-struck penalty following a hand ball and will have added one other purpose minutes later however couldn’t direct the ball into the online from eight metres.
Fuerth virtually scored with a sucker punch within the thirty eighth however Cedric Itten’s shot sailed simply large.
Haaland made certain of the three factors, powering in a header from a Julian Brand free kick eight minutes from the top for his thirteenth league purpose of the marketing campaign earlier than Malen’s last-minute purpose.
(Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; enhancing by Clare Fallon)
