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Dortmund (dpa) - More bite, more speed, more creativity - Borussia Dortmund has found back on the road to success.
After the last three games without a win and falling to seventh place in the table, the team of soccer teacher Edin Terzic prevailed 3-1 (1-1) against FC Augsburg.
In the empty Signal Iduna Park Thomas Delaney (26th minute) and Jadon Sancho (63rd) and on Saturday for the well-deserved success of the Revierclub, plus an own goal by Felix Uduokhai (75th / own goal).
The hand penalty missed by Erling Haaland was no longer significant (21st).
For Augsburg, who had been in the lead due to André Hahn's goal (10th), it was the fourth defeat in the last five games.
The question of whether the recently criticized BVB goalkeeper Roman Bürki would lose his regular place answered itself. Due to a shoulder injury sustained during training, the Swiss had to pass and was replaced by Marwin Hitz.
The Bürki compatriot had to grab his goal behind him with the first shot.
After a cross from Amaral Iago, Hahn used the freedom granted by the BVB defense and shot the ball from ten meters into the net - unsustainable for Hitz.
The fact that Borussia was actually the clearly better team up until then and missed two good chances to take the lead thanks to Julian Brandt (8th), who was placed in the central midfield this time, and Haaland (9th), fit into the picture of the past weeks.
Just like Haaland's missed penalty.
The Norwegian had deftly delayed the shot, but only hit the crossbar.
It was the third penalty awarded by Dortmund in a row.
No league team has made more misses from the point.
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Once again, the star ensemble seemed to be on the right track not to capitalize on their superiority.
After all, the well-deserved compensation was achieved before the break.
Midfielder Delaney headed a free kick from BVB captain Marco Reus into the Augsburg goal.
It speaks for the superiority of BVB that the guests only approached the opposing goal once until half-time.
But Marco Richter's shot (44th) missed.
Even after the restart, the Dortmund dictated the event.
But despite all the pressure, the Augsburg cover initially remained stable.
Uduokhai (54th) clarified in dire need against BVB attacker Giovanni Reyna.
Only a remarkable pass from Raphael Guerreiro to Sancho gave the hosts the overdue lead.
The Englishman kept his nerve and pushed the ball past FC keeper Rafal Gikiewicz into the far corner.
That broke the spell.
When Uduokhai steered a Haaland cross into his own goal at the end of a BVB counterattack, the game was decided.
© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210130-99-236098 / 2
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