Earlier, vfb stuttgart had also beaten borussia monchengladbach 2-0 and gained plenty of confidence for wednesday’s cup semifinal against SC freiburg. Accompanied by curious defensive blunders of the guests stuttgart finally deserved to win and gave his opponent a steamer in the race for a place in the europa league. A goal by alvaro dominguez (28). Minute) and the goal by christian gentner (34.) gave vfb only its fourth home win of the season in the fubball bundesliga in front of 53,430 spectators.
Stuttgart has after the first home success in 2013 as twelfth with 36 points hardly realistic chances to reach the internationals via the league, but would be in a cup final in europe for sure, if the opponent there bayern munchen hiebe. "You could see from the first minute how committed we were," vfb coach bruno labbadia told the TV station sky. "The game is definitely good for us," he stressed.
Gladbach’s coach lucien favre was able to make up his mind after his 150. Game as bundesliga coach not at all happy. With 41 points, last year’s fourth-placed team remains in seventh place, just behind the european cup ranks. "We didn’t play badly. We get goals, they break a lot," said favre. "There’s nothing you can do about it."
In dream weather gladbach tried to determine the game at first. But then it became painful for borussia in some respects. Havard nordtveit (9.) clashed with stuttgart’s georg niedermeier in a header and got a bloody nose. Shortly afterwards he had to come off for granit xhaka.
Goalkeeper marc-andre ter stegen reacts to a header by martin harnik (11.) still sensational. Then the borussia goalkeeper falls in love with luck and skill. A sharp free kick cross from
alexandru maxim was tripped up by luuk de jong, himself and finally dominguez and ended up in his own goal. A little later gentner outwitted the visitors. Ter stegen fell in love with herrmann. Herrmann fell in love with ter stegen. Gentner lofted the ball from an acute angle into the goal for 2:0.
In a turbulent home match in front of 30,660 spectators in augsburg, dong-won ji, the strong-bearded south korean, scored both goals with his first brace (27)./55.). "That made a lot of fun today," said FCA manager stefan reuter. "It is important that the team has the belief that it can do it. You played a great game and deserved to win."
FCA is now only three points behind fortuna dusseldorf in the relegation play-off places with 27 payers. "Of course we can do it, we still have five games left and we’re a strong team," ji told sky tv after the match.
Eintracht coach armin veh, on the other hand, failed to take a major step toward international success in his hometown of augsburg with promoted frankfurt. Despite a weak performance, the hessians remain in sixth place in the european league. "That was an absolutely deserved victory for augsburg. They invested more than we did and were more present on the pitch. After the performance, we don’t need to talk about europe, we’re quite a bit away from that now," said veh.
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