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Budapest (dpa) - That was a size too big for Borussia Mönchengladbach.
The negative series of the Bundesliga eight also continued in the Champions League.
The sense of achievement, which was urgently needed after the announced departure from coach Marco Rose, failed to materialize in the first leg of the first leg against the clearly superior top favorites Manchester City with a 0: 2 (0: 1) defeat.
This means that the chances of reaching the next round in the second leg on March 16 should have decreased considerably.
The Gladbachers are now facing the difficult tasks ahead in the league and in the DFB Cup under a lot of pressure to calm the mood in the area because of the coach's departure.
In the Puskas Arena, where the Gladbachers had to play their home game due to the entry ban for English teams in Germany, Bernardo Silva (29th minute) and Gabriel Jesus (65th) scored the goals for the six-time English champions.
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Four days after the bitter 1: 2 defeat against relegation candidate FSV Mainz 05, Gladbach's coach demanded courage and passion from his team.
Against a team that has not been defeated for 25 competitive games and recently celebrated 18 wins in a row, no easy undertaking.
With a formation changed in one position, in which Denis Zakaria moved for Valentino Lazaro, Rose tried to form a compact headquarters.
“Zakaria fits in well,” said the Gladbach coach, explaining the change.
The English, led by their best goalscorer with eleven goals this season, Ilkay Gündogan and initially without the long-injured former Wolfsburg Kevin De Bruyne, demanded hard work from Borussia from the start.
With his run-intensive and passable game, the Premier League leaders kept the hosts in the foreign stadium permanently busy.
After just under half an hour, the Gladbach resistance was broken.
The attack on the left side of Joao Cancelo landed at Bernardo Silva, who scored 1-0 with a header into the far corner and scored for the first time in this Champions League season.
Previously, Christoph Kramer had unintentionally initiated the scene with a bad pass to the flank giver.
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There were hardly any relief attacks for the eleven from the Lower Rhine.
Stefan Lainer, who came up with some good scenes on the right side, tried to pass Alassane Plea in the 19th minute, but Gladbach's best goalscorer with five goals came too late.
The English defensive without conceding a goal for 616 minutes in this premier class season was also quite unemployment against the Gladbachers.
The Rose-Elf was only able to break free in the second section, but was lucky in the 54th minute that Jesus did not use the first big chance to make it 2-0.
Plea (63rd) missed the first big goal opportunity for Borussia after a pass from Zakaria artistically and tightly.
Almost in return, the decision was made for the team of former Bayern coach Pep Guardiola.
After a presentation by Silva, Jesus then scored 2-0.
In the final phase, Jonas Hofmann also had to leave the field injured.
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