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Credit where credit is due. What a performance. Football is so strange sometimes. One week you show up with a half-assed effort in Heidenheim, and the next you dominate one of the most solid and well-disciplined squads in the Bundesliga. Everything basically went right for Terzic and co. on Friday night, as Christian Streich and his men seemed helpless and out of ideas for basically the entire match. There is no doubt that this was one of Dortmund?s best league performances this season, and while Freiburg are not in the best run of form, they are still a very good team that can trouble even the biggest teams, both domestically and internationally. The Black and Yellows played with a lot of patience and precision today, and you really get the sense of what this team can do when (almost) everyone is healthy. Here are my observations from Friday?s convincing win against Freiburg.
A Deadly Partnership in the Making"
We gotta talk about it, don?t we" Niclas Füllkrug and Donyell Malen respectively had probably their best games in a black and yellow shirt, period. I will not get too ahead of myself, but the performance from those two tonight was very reminiscent of performances we?ve from duos such as Harry Kane and Son Heung-min at Tottenham or Sané and Kane at Bayern Munich. Malen demonstrated his innate finishing for the first two goals, while Füllkrug showed that he?s more than capable of acting a...