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Mario Götze demonstrated his outstanding shooting technique against former club Dortmund

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In Europe, Borussia Dortmund is in the top eight, and in the Bundesliga BVB has moved back into the top four: In the home game against Eintracht Frankfurt, Edin Terzić's team turned around an early deficit and won 2-1 (1-1). .

Former BVB star Mario Götze made himself a little less popular with his youth club with his opening goal for the SGE (13th minute), Karim Adeyemi (33rd) equalized.

In the final phase, Mats Hummels flew through the penalty area and headed Dortmund's lead (81'), which Emre Can extended with a penalty kick (90'+3).

The victory means that Dortmund moves back past RB Leipzig into fourth place in the table.

Leipzig had clearly beaten Cologne on Friday.

Frankfurt is in sixth place, a long way behind at the top and five points ahead at the bottom.

The first leg was 3-3, and the second meeting between the two European Cup candidates also started with an open mind.

A direct free kick from Marco Reus landed next to Kevin Trapp's goal (7th), but BVB continued to play forward - and was punished: Frankfurt's defense stopped Dortmund's Marius Wolf in their own penalty area, and Willian Pacho's break-away shot flew through past Nico Schlotterbeck, who defended recklessly.

Omar Marmoush had free rein, but was denied by BVB keeper Alexander Meyer.

A moment later, the representative of the injured Gregor Kobel still had to reach behind himself: the rebound landed at Götze, who placed a volley into the goal from almost 20 meters (13th).

Dortmund didn't let the deficit unsettle them and continued to play forward.

Pancho was once again in the spotlight, this time because Frankfurt's central defender cleared a header from Niclas Füllkrug just in front of the line (18th).

Then Donyell Malen showed why his name had recently appeared in transfer rumors surrounding top English clubs: The Dutchman asserted himself strongly on the right wing and passed the ball inside, where Karim Adeyemi was able to equalize at the second post (33').

The equalizer corresponded to the proportions of the game, Frankfurt only became dangerous when Marmoush or Ansgar Knauff, also a former Dortmund player, were able to run towards the BVB defense at speed.

This happened not infrequently; referee Tobias Stieler's extremely generous management allowed both teams to win the ball through tough duels.

After one such, Marmoush forced Meyer to make his strongest save to date (68').

Can almost leave the pitch, then scores

It was the first promising opportunity to end what was initially a much quieter second half of the game, in which Dortmund couldn't come up with much despite having the advantage in possession.

It's good for BVB that there are standards: Hummels sank a free-kick cross from Julian Brandt with a flying header (81').

At the end, Emre Can was worried about his whereabouts on the field: Stieler had already shown red for a risky tackle, but after looking at the video monitor he corrected to yellow because Can had also played the ball (85th).

In stoppage time, Robin Koch stepped on Jamie Bynoe-Gittens' foot and Can converted the penalty (90+3).

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