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Three games, three wins - Borussia Dortmund have continued their recent comeback and can continue to hope for a return to the Champions League.

With the 2-0 (1-0) victory over Union Berlin, the team of coach Edin Terzic kept the four-point deficit in fourth place.

In the empty Signal Iduna Park, Marco Reus (27th minute) and Raphael Guerreiro (88th) scored their deserved success on Wednesday.

As in the previous two games against Stuttgart (3: 2) and Bremen (4: 1), BVB was not naked.

Despite the seventh defeat of the season, the guests also remain in the race for a European competition.

If BVB wants to continue their chase against direct rivals VfL Wolfsburg on Saturday, they will have to do without defense chief Mats Hummels.

The 2014 world champion saw the fifth yellow card.

“We played a good game and had good opportunities.

Max Kruse's free kick to the post was a key scene.

The second goal came at the right time, ”said Dortmund goalkeeper Marwin Hitz.

His opposite number, Andreas Luthe, was disappointed: “We played a decent game.

There was more in it.

Dortmund punished us coldly. "

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The Dortmund starting line-up, which was changed to three positions due to coach Terzic's persistent scheduling, initially had obvious orientation problems.

Only with a lot of luck was she spared a deficit after just twelve seconds when Berlin's Marcus Ingvartsen hit the lower edge of the crossbar with a long-range shot after a bad pass from Emre Can.

This faux pas right at the start of the game was like a wake-up call for Borussia.

With greater concentration, she now took over the direction.

So this time Reus, who was ordered into the central offensive midfield, missed the great opportunity to lead after nice preparatory work by Thorgan Hazard.

A little later Giovanni Reyna (14th) and Hazard (16th) checked guest keeper Luthe with long shots.

A debatable penalty whistle from referee Daniel Schlager after Luthe fouled Reus brought BVB 1-0.

Although Erling Haaland failed from the point on Luthe, he was lucky that Reus was able to push the rebound over the line from a short distance.

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“You have to be clear.

Reus seeks contact and takes off.

That could be corrected from the cellar.

The goalkeeper must take the action that leads to the penalty kick.

Here you can see that Reus is putting his foot out.

I can't say it's a crystal clear wrong decision, but it is controversial, ”complained Berlin's manager Oliver Ruhnert at the TV broadcaster Sky.

Union goalkeeper saw it similarly.

“Marco takes off extremely early.

He wants the penalty.

I think if you look at it, you can also decide against it.

It was close, but such situations are always close.

But I knew immediately that there was no clear contact with whom I would somehow bring him down, ”said Luthe.

BVB coach Terzic also admitted that you can "give the penalty, but you don't have to".

Haaland then showed an unusual weakness at the end of the game, and not only when he missed a penalty.

In the 35th minute, the BVB striker failed free-standing by Luthe and thus deprived his team of the reassuring 2-0 lead at halftime.

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But after the restart, the Berliners increased their willingness to take risks and sought an open exchange of blows.

That made them more prone to counterattacks.

But BVB striker Reyna (50th) aimed with a lob over goalkeeper Luthe from an acute angle past the gate.

The substitution of Jadon Sancho (59th), who celebrated his comeback after a seven-week break, should revive BVB's weaker attacking game.

Initially, however, this only succeeded moderately.

Because the guests were closer to equalizing a free kick from Max Kruse (66th) on the post than BVB 2-0.

When Berlin threw everything forward, rooms arose for BVB.

First Sancho (84th) and Haaland (86th) failed, then Guerreiro (88th) met Sancho after a strong ball win.

Werder Bremen - FSV Mainz 0: 1 (0: 1)

After the sixth defeat in a row, it will be really tight again for Werder Bremen in the relegation battle of the Bundesliga.

The green-whites lost the basement duel against FSV Mainz 05 with 0: 1 (0: 1) and thus set a negative record in their club history.

His mood was "pretty shitty," said Werder managing director Frank Baumann on Sky.

Mainz, on the other hand, remained unbeaten for the sixth time in a row and overtook Bremen in the table.

"That is a bitter defeat for us," said Baumann and admitted that it "will be very, very difficult and that we now have to score".

Werder now only has four points ahead of Hertha BSC on the relegation place, but the Berliners also have two catch-up games to contest. After the North Germans were only able to save themselves in the relegation last season, they are now threatened with trembling again until the end of the season. Thanks to Adam Szalai's winning goal (16th minute), Mainz are well on their way to staying up. An impressive performance by the new coach Bo Svensson.

Shortly before the break, Werder apparently managed to equalize.

After a corner, Zentner parried a filling pitcher header, but then did not have the ball completely under control.

While trying to clear the ball, Barreiro shot the Bremer Sargent, from where the game device bounced into the goal.

But after referee Marco Fritz had looked at the scene again on the screen, he decided to foul against Zentner.

A highly controversial decision that made Kohfeldt freak out on the sidelines.

“It was a tie.

We actually made the goal.

The ball is free, the goalkeeper has no hand on it.

So no foul, ”said Kohfeldt after the game.

1899 Hoffenheim - Borussia Mönchengladbach 3: 2 (0: 2)

Borussia Mönchengladbach made a big mistake in catching up on the Europa League places.

After a 2-0 break lead, coach Marco Rose's team lost 3-2 at TSG 1899 Hoffenheim.

Alassane Plea (25th minute) and Valentino Lazaro (45th + 1) first met for the guests in the empty Sinsheim stadium.

Andrej Kramaric (48th / 65th) with his 15th and 16th goals of the season and Ihlas Bebou (60th) turned the game for TSG after the break.

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This means that the Gladbachers, who were previously unbeaten in four games, missed the chance to move up to one point on Bayer Leverkusen sixth before the fourth last matchday.

The troubled people from Hoffenheim eliminated the last doubts about staying in the class and won for the first time after five games without a win.

VfB Stuttgart - VfL Wolfsburg 1: 3 (0: 2)

VfB Stuttgart, which has been so enthusiastic for a long time, loses its momentum in the last few meters. The Swabians were defeated by VfL Wolfsburg 1: 3 (0: 2) and suffered their third defeat in the Bundesliga in a row. Xaver Schlager (13th minute), striker Wout Weghorst (29th) and Yannick Gerhardt (65th) scored for the guests, who are well on their way to the Champions League. The Stuttgarters, plagued by numerous personnel problems, on the other hand, can probably put their remaining mini hopes on the European Cup aside for good.

In a game characterized by numerous top chances, coach Pellegrino Matarazzo's team lacked two things in particular: defensive stability and offensive efficiency.

Fittingly, Philipp Förster (26th) missed a hand penalty, and the midfielder even put the margin over the goal.

Only Gonzalo Castro scored in stoppage time.

After the first win after two defeats before, the table third Wolfsburg can make the premier class as good as perfect in a direct duel with the fifth Borussia Dortmund on Saturday (3.30 p.m., in the sports ticker of the WELT).

"We shouldn't leave the field as a loser," said Wolfsburg's Maximilian Arnold on Sky TV with a view to the game against BVB. “We are five points ahead of Borussia Dortmund. The banned players come back, the ailing players come back. I think we are ready. "