Even if Dortmund being pegged back by Hoffenheim was a bolt from the blue, their uneven performance was not
For most of the season, Jadon Sancho has befuddled all comers in the Bundesliga, catching opponents on the hop much as his Borussia Dortmund team has done. As evening drew into Nord-Rhine Westphalia on Saturday, he was left scratching his head at the end of an extraordinary afternoon, the majority of which he had spent looking as if he was walking on water.
The English teenager had been outstanding, again (albeit after a few fairly quiet weeks, by his now lofty standards), and Hoffenheim hadn’t got near handling him. In the first half he sizzled down both flanks, scoring the opener from an absurd angle and seeing another shot palmed out by Oliver Baumann for Mario Götze to follow in and net a second. Perhaps the moment which best underlined his majesty was when the visitors’ Kerem Demirbay snapped, cleaning him out with a sliding lunge and earning a yellow card for the privilege, after Sancho ran a series of rings around Stefan Posch.
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He just had one of the best games of his career against Hoffenheim...
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Bayern Munich 3-1 Schalke, Borussia Dortmund 3-3 Hoffenheim, Fortuna Düsseldorf 3-0 Stuttgart, Hannover 2-0 Nurnberg, Mainz 1-5 Bayer Leverkusen, Borussia Mönchengladbach 0-3 Hertha Berlin, RB Leipzig 0-0 Eintracht Frankfurt, SC Freiburg 3-3 Wolfsburg, Werder Bremen 4-0 Augsburg
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