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BVB shut down Freiburg for one of the club?s most convincing wins of the season. With multiple key players returning, and playing in front of a home crowd, Borussia Dortmund looked much improved as they ran away with a 3-0 win against Freiburg on Friday night.
Donyell Malen opened the scoring early in the game, firing a shot perfectly into the top corner from just inside the penalty area, and he doubled Dortmund?s lead just before halftime, perfectly placing Niclas Füllkrug?s through ball, his second assist of the night, into the far corner. BVB were dominant throughout the game and easily could have scored a couple more in the second half, with multiple great opportunities not quite finding their way into the net. It took a phenomenal in-swinging cross from Ian Maatsen, which was headed home by Füllkrug for Dortmund?s third, to put the game to bed. Dortmund are now level on points with Stuttgart, trailing them only by goal difference, but the three points ensure that BVB will stay in fourth place for another week, with RB Leipzig behind them by four points.
Here are our ratings from BVB?s 3-0 win against Freiburg.
Starting XI
Gregor Kobel
Paul: 6
Zac: 6
A quiet return to the squad after being out sick. Kobel had little to do, but fielded a few long efforts with ease.
Sean: 6
Ian Maatsen
Paul: 7
Maatsen wasn?t BVB?s best player against Freiburg, which makes this a relative decline for the Dutch f...