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Gelsenkirchen (dpa) - Borussia Dortmund is back on track after a week-long descent and has further increased relegation concerns at arch-rivals FC Schalke 04.
Thanks to the 4-0 (2-0) in a largely dreary Revierderby, BVB remains within striking distance of the Champions League places and stopped the downward trend with three Bundesliga away defeats in a row.
In the empty Veltins-Arena on Saturday evening, Jadon Sancho (42nd minute), Erling Haaland (45th / 79th) and Raphael Guerreiro (60th) ensured the well-deserved victory of Borussia, just three days after the highly acclaimed appearance celebrated an important success in Seville (3-2) even without shine.
In contrast, the bottom of the table in the Bundesliga from Gelsenkirchen had to accept his ninth home defeat and is still nine points behind the relegation place.
Even the action of a fan club to hang around 7,000 blue and white T-shirts over the seat shells in the arena could not change that.
Unlike in Seville, BVB, handicapped by the short-term failure of central defender Manuel Akanji (fiber tear), started the game more cautiously.
Nevertheless, he earned his first chance to score when Sancho failed with a low shot from 14 meters to Schalke keeper Ralf Fährmann.
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But Schalke, who had to do without new signing Shkodran Mustafi for a short time, rarely wavered on the defensive at first.
Although BVB determined the game, it was too unimaginative.
Therefore, the bottom group had good opportunities for counterattacks, which were not played consistently to the end.
Even the injury-related replacement of their keeper Ralf Fährmann (abdominal muscle problems), who was replaced by Michael Langer in the 32nd minute, didn't seem to bother Schalke - until Benjamin Stambouli's bad mistake.
The midfielder threw the ball in front of his own penalty area and thus initiated the deficit for his team.
Because Sancho took advantage of the dropout and scored his 5th goal of the season with a placed shot from 14 meters.
Only three minutes later, the Englishman initiated the 2-0 for BVB.
Haaland carried the flank of his strike partner with a remarkable volley in goal.
This one-two punch just before the break did not take the opponent's hope away.
It was only thanks to two brilliant acts by BVB keeper Marwin Hitz that the Schalke team did not score the next goal shortly after the break.
In the 51st minute, the Bürki representative deflected a shot from Suat Serdar against the post, only two minutes later he ironed out a mistake by defense chief Mats Hummels.
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Only the 3-0 through Guerreiro, who met after a pass from BVB captain Marco Reus from 14 meters, removed all doubts about Dortmund's victory.
Schalke continued to strive to correct the result, but remained harmless as usual.
Instead, Haaland increased to 4-0 after a cross from Jude Bellingham and scored two goals this season (17) more than the entire Schalke team.
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