Post-match Reactions: Borussia Dortmund Tie Wolfsburg 1-1 in Boring Affair
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Two goals and hundreds of tennis balls. In their quest to maintain fourth place, Borussia Dortmund dropped two crucial points in a very disjointed affair against VFL Wolfsburg. Terzic?s men got an early lead through Niklas Fullkrug in the eighth minute, after a wonderful pass from Marcel Sabitzer found Marco Reus who played it into the box for Fullkrug to bobble it over the line. It was far from a beautiful goal and we will never be certain if Reus meant to pass the ball or if he shanked his shot on target. Regardless, Borussia Dortmund were up early and then the real fun began.
Within three minutes of the goal, protests against the DFL?s investor vote erupted amongst the Wolfsburg supporters with tennis balls, coins, and other objects thrown onto the field. Across the first half, there were four different delays due to protests, twelve minutes of stoppage time, probably ten minutes of actual soccer, and only about 25 seconds of good soccer. Both teams looked unable to find any rhythm due to the frequent delays and, of course, the lack of talented players. The second half featured much of the same with Dortmund fans taking their turn to protest with several pauses taking place as stadium staff removed tennis balls from the field. Wolfsburg responded to Dortmund?s awful first-half goal with an awful goal of their own to tie the game in the 64th minute. Lots of blame falls on Gregor Kobel and Nico Schlotterbeck whos...
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