After a difficult week, the English teenager scored the winner against Schalke as Borussia Dortmund continue their charge
It was dark when Borussia Dortmund’s bus arrived back at the club’s training ground in Brackel but it couldn’t get in. It was blocked by several hundred supporters, chanting and lighting the winter night with pyro. A couple of the players, Axel Witsel and Achraf Hakimi, got off the coach and joined them.
This may already be shaping up to be a special season for Dortmund but if you wondered what this dream start – unbeaten in the Bundesliga, soaring above champions Bayern Munich having beaten them in Der Klassiker last month, through to the Champions League last 16 – was missing, then here was the answer. They had entered Saturday afternoon’s match already 19 points clear of rivals Schalke but winning the Revierderby, whenever, however, always means so much.
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"The Dortmund fans will love him forever for that goal!
JADON SANCHO
The young Englishman delivers AGAIN with a winner in the Revierderby!
What a player! pic.twitter.com/at8wcnEdpa
Borussia Mönchengladbach 3-0 Stuttgart, Mainz 1-1 Hannover, Hertha Berlin 1-0 Eintracht Frankfurt, Bayern Munich 3-0 Nürnberg, Freiburg 3-0 RB Leipzig, Bayer Leverkusen 1-0 Augsburg, Schalke 1-2 Dortmund, Wolfsburg 2-2 Hoffenheim, Werder Bremen 3-1 Fortuna Dusseldorf