Gregor Kobel waved past the ball and deprived Borussia of the leadership in the Bundesliga.
Borussia Dortmund have a real chance of breaking Bayern’s hegemony in the Bundesliga for the first time in ten seasons. In case of victory in a head-to-head confrontation, the “black-and-yellows” could break away from their main rivals by as much as five points. However, from the very first minutes of the match in Munich, it became clear that it would not be possible to maintain leadership in the championship race. The trouble came from where they did not expect.
Borussia wisely took advantage of Bayern’s latest misfires in the championship. Before the head-to-head match within the 26th round, Edin Terzic’s team was in the lead in the Bundesliga table. True, the advantage over Munich was only one point.
The recent successes of the team from Dortmund are largely due to the brilliant play of goalkeeper Gregor Kobel. This season, the goalkeeper of the “black-and-yellows” left the field eight times without conceding goals. The Swiss also ranks third in the championship in terms of the average number of saves per game – 3.6.
This winter, Bayern even wanted to buy Kobel to replace the injured Manuel Neuer. It even came to substantive negotiations, but in the end the Munich club preferred another Swiss – Jan Sommer.
In the game with Bayern, high hopes were pinned on Gregor: both from the fans and from the coaching staff of Borussia. But, unfortunately, it was the goalkeeper who became not only the culprit, but also the author of the first missed goal!
In the 13th minute, the goalkeeper decided to play ahead to stop Leroy Sane going one on one after the failure of the defense. The situation seems to be absolutely ordinary, but Male, who shone all season, made a mistake at the most inopportune moment for the team.
The goalkeeper ran out of the gate to make a clearance, but waved past the ball, barely touching it, after which he calmly rolled into the goal. Everyone was shocked by what was happening. It is difficult to imagine what Kobel himself was thinking at that moment. After a gross mistake, he grabbed his head.
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“I have no idea how the ball slipped in there. It was incredible shit, to be honest. There are just shitty days, today was one of them. Of course, the goal is definitely mine, and it hurts a lot, ”Kobel said on Sky Sports after the match.
The goal was credited to Kobel, but in this situation one can also mark Dayo Upamecano, who made a fatal cutting pass. In fact, the goal could have been given to the defender of Bavarim: in the end, the ball flew into the target. If it weren’t for the goalkeeper’s kicks, we would have discussed the crazy ball scored from our own half of the field.
After the stupidest importation, the team naturally fell down. In ten minutes Dortmund missed two more times. In total, there were four goals in Kobel’s goal. Only after that, Borussia was able to print the opponent’s goal, scoring twice. But it was already too late. Sad result: the “black-and-yellows” are inferior in the main match of the season.
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Former coach of the Ukrainian national team Jozsef Szabo Meta.ua has exclusively chosen the version of the three best Ukrainian football players of this season for its website.
“In the first row, Ilya Zabarny is almost out of the competition,” Sabo said. – As far as I remember, there has been no regression in the game yet. Yes, the defender had unimpressive tackles, but these were isolated cases. But he’s only 23 years old. The contract with Paris Saint-Germain shows that this football player is currently one of the best in Europe. And do not forget that at that age he played 55 matches for the Ukrainian national team.
I will give second place to Ruslan Malinovsky, who seems to have found a second youth after being injured. This guy’s head is clear, making great passes is not difficult for a midfielder. Largely thanks to Malinovsky’s effective play, the Ukrainian national team managed to qualify for the play-offs in the 2026 World Cup qualifying tournament.
The third will be Everton’s left back Vitaly Mikolenko. He is a consistent starter for his team. And no matter what position the team is in, the English league is still the strongest league in Europe. He is an irreplaceable football player in the national team.
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Forward from Togliatti “Akron” Artem Dzyuba he wants to play as a goalkeeper for the rest of his career.
“I would be interested in trying to play in goal at least once. I would like to do it in the match,” Dzyuba said.
Dzyuba is the best scorer in the history of Russian football.
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Leonid Slutsky last year he performed well as coach of the Shanghai Shenhua football team. This opinion was expressed by the striker of Togliatti “Akron” Artem Dzyuba.
Last season, Slutsky took second place in the Chinese league with Shanghai Shenhua and led the club to the Asian Champions League playoffs for the first time. The team also won the Chinese Super Cup.
“He’s doing well in China, the only thing he was missing was a championship, everything was leading to that,” Dziuba said. “But it’s tough for a team that’s been in fifth place all their life, they don’t have that winning mentality.”
Slutsky is 54 years old and has been at the helm of the Chinese club since December 2023. In his career he has coached Rubin Kazan, Uralan Elista, Mosca, Krylya Sovetov Samara, CSKAEnglish “Hull” and Dutch “Vitesse”. Together with CSKA the specialist became champion of Russia three times, won the Russian Cup and the Super Cup twice.
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