The goal to give VfL an interim 1-0 lead was a special one for the scorer. It did not change the continuation of his club’s negative streak.
This story was told by Marco Rose, in the fresh feeling of the 3:1 victory, in a manner of speaking “loosely from the stool”. The game at VfL Wolfsburg was barely two minutes old when his Dortmund side were already trailing 0:1. “Basically, I was actually very composed after conceding the goal “, said the BVB coach. “However, one thing immediately popped into my head…”
Sporting director Michael Zorc had told him shortly before the game that Wolfsburg had not been able to land a success against Dortmund for years and that Wout Weghorst had never scored a goal against the Black and Yellows. In fact, the last competitive match win for the Lower Saxons was more than six years ago – they had won the cup final against Dortmund 3-1 in Berlin on 30 May 2015 and then scored just once, in a 0-0 draw at Dortmund on matchday 18 in 2017/18.
Weghorst has now scored against every current Bundesliga club – except one
No Wolfsburg win, no goal, certainly not by Weghorst – “those were the things where I thought: all right, then we can put a tick on that as well “, Rose said. “At least we were able to shape the result for ourselves.”
And that despite the fact that Weghorst has now scored his first Bundesliga goal against Dortmund. It is the completion of a great record for the Dutchman, who is in his fourth year in the green and white. He has now scored at least once against all current Bundesliga teams, with the exception of his own club, of course. 58 goals in 111 first division games is now his total.
This story was told by Marco Rose, in the fresh feeling of the 3:1 victory, in a manner of speaking “off the cuff”. The game at VfL Wolfsburg had been barely two minutes old when his Dortmund side were already trailing 0:1. “Basically, I was actually very composed after conceding the goal,” said the BVB coach. “However, one thing immediately popped into my head… “
An exceptionally black series against Dortmund
And: with his early goal against Borussia, the 29-year-old has now scored for the 15th time in a game for the “Wolves” to make it 1:0for VfL. New here: For the first time, Wolfsburg subsequently walked off the pitch as losers, having previously had 13 wins and one draw.
Meanwhile, VfL’s extraordinary black streak against the current runners-up in the table continues. It is now 13 games without a “three-pointer” against the Westphalians. Never in the club’s history has Wolfsburg waited so long for a win against a Bundesliga rival – now once again at least until the second leg in April next year.
