Hoffmann's goal immediately opened up the game for Borussia Dortmund's players, and in the eighty-sixth minute, Borussia Dortmund added another goal.

This time, Reus dribbled the ball into the penalty area and was tripped, and the referee awarded Borussia Brunswick a penalty.

Westfalenstadion erupted with cheers.

A penalty!

This ball will definitely go in, and if it does, the victory will be locked in! This game can be considered won, and Borussia Dortmund will top the league standings with this victory!

Subsequently, Reus personally took the penalty and, as expected, kicked the ball into Borussia Brunswick's goal, giving Borussia Dortmund a 2-0 lead at home.

Including the players, everyone's hearts that had been hanging for more than eighty minutes finally returned to their stomachs.

But God didn't seem to want Borussia Dortmund to win the game so easily.

In the eighty-ninth minute, Borussia Brunswick got a corner kick opportunity. This was Borussia Brunswick's third corner kick of the game.

The corner kick flew to the front of the goal, and Mark, who had returned to defend in front of the goal, jumped up and tried to clear the ball with a header, but he accidentally headed the ball into his own goal!

"Ah! Ah! Ah... Goal! Mark... Own goal! Mark Wagner scored an own goal! This is terrible!"

Goalkeeper Weidenfeller was caught off guard by Mark's header and could only watch helplessly as the ball flew into the goal from the near corner.

Borussia Brunswick's players were celebrating the goal.

Mark, however, held his head and looked very frustrated.

Originally, a two-goal lead was quite stable, but his own goal immediately put the team in a dangerous situation...

He felt very guilty and remorseful, and also a little scared.

Mark's fear was justified. This own goal immediately made the atmosphere at the scene tense again—counting stoppage time, there were only a few minutes left before the end of the game, and if the opponent scored another goal in these few minutes... the cooked duck could fly away!

After entering stoppage time, Klopp used his last substitution of the game. He replaced Mkhitaryan with Marvin Ducksch.

In this game, Mkhitaryan, who had injured his ankle before, got the chance to start, but perhaps because he had been injured before and hadn't had a good joint practice with the team, Mkhitaryan's performance in the game was not very good, only average.

Marvin Ducksch is a nineteen-year-old forward, produced by Borussia Dortmund's youth training camp. With Lewandowski gone, he may have more opportunities to play this season, but whether he can truly gain a foothold in the first team and become a useful addition to the squad will depend on whether he can seize the opportunity.

Klopp replaced Mkhitaryan with Ducksch not only to consume a little time with a substitution in the last few minutes of the game, but also hoped to use this substitution to put pressure on Borussia Brunswick, so that they could not launch a major counterattack against Borussia Dortmund's goal in the remaining time.

If they really wanted to do so, then Borussia Dortmund's counterattack was not to be trifled with.

He was just reminding Borussia Brunswick to think carefully about what was behind them when they wanted to equalize the score...

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This substitution still had some effect. In the last few minutes, Borussia Brunswick did not cause any trouble for Borussia Dortmund's goal. In fact, if it hadn't been for Mark's own goal, Borussia Brunswick would have had no chance to score.

In the end, at the end of the game, Borussia Dortmund defeated promoted team Borussia Brunswick 2-1 at home.

Although this game was a victory, it was not an easy win for Borussia Dortmund.

The new season of the Bundesliga will definitely not be smooth sailing. Even a promoted team can cause them so much trouble. If it were replaced by a slightly stronger mid-table team, they might really defeat Borussia Dortmund at Westfalenstadion.

After the game, Klopp admitted in the press conference that his team did not perform well enough, but he also believed that victory was more important than anything else for Borussia Dortmund.

With the victory in this game, Borussia Dortmund had two consecutive victories with six points, ranking first in the league standings.

However, there were as many as four teams with six points like them: Bayern Munich, Leverkusen, Mainz, and Werder Bremen, ranking second to fifth respectively.

Borussia Dortmund was only ranked first by virtue of the advantage in goal difference, and this first place was very unstable.

Of course, for football matches, the result is greater than everything. As long as you win the game, it doesn't matter how you win, no matter how difficult it is.

This ranking illustrates this point.

At the same time, Borussia Dortmund's 2-1 victory over Borussia Brunswick at home was also Borussia Dortmund's twentieth consecutive victory.

Last season, they surpassed Inter Milan's seventeen consecutive victories with eighteen consecutive victories and became the team with the longest winning streak in the top five European leagues.

This season, they continued their efforts and won two consecutive rounds, extending this new record to twenty games.

While winning the championship, Klopp's team is also creating a record that is difficult for future generations to reach.

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In the third round of the league, Borussia Dortmund welcomed Werder Bremen at home. After this game, there would be five or six days before the fourth round of the league, but Borussia Dortmund was different. On August 27, that is, three days after this league game, they would play the fourth round of the league in advance, because on August 30, they had a game in Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic—where they would compete against Chelsea, the champion of last season's Europa League, in the European Super Cup.

This season is indeed a brand new and severe test for Borussia Dortmund.

Because of the Brazil World Cup next summer, the league schedule is very dense, and the Champions League and domestic cup schedules will also be adjusted accordingly. The players' workload will be greater than in normal seasons. And in December, the entire Borussia Dortmund team will also go to Japan to participate in the Club World Cup. For this reason, they will miss several domestic league games, and the missed games will be arranged in the following time whenever possible. If they can reach the Champions League semi-finals again, this will lead to Borussia Dortmund's new season schedule being very dense and tight.

Such a dense schedule is a severe test of the players' physical fitness, and it is also a severe test of the team's injury control.

The league has only just begun, and the team has suffered injuries one after another. Gündoğan has a back injury, Mkhitaryan has an ankle injury, and Piszczek is also injured...

After winning the league championship for three consecutive years, this champion team of Borussia Dortmund seems to be at the end of its rope.

After creating a historical record of twenty consecutive victories, such crises are also hidden under the glorious surface of Borussia Dortmund.

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In the game against Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund continued to rotate, and Sven Bender and Aubameyang sat on the bench.

Because Piszczek's injury had not yet recovered, Grosskreutz once again showed his versatility and started in this game, playing as a right back.

In this game, Borussia Dortmund also played very hard at home. Neither side scored in the first half.

It was not until ten minutes after the start of the second half that Mark Wagner broke the deadlock for the team.

This goal came from Grosskreutz's cross assist.

But after taking a one-goal lead, Borussia Dortmund did not take advantage of the victory to pursue, not because they didn't want to, but because they were a little lacking in strength.

The two sides continuously adjusted their troops from the sixty-sixth minute. Werder Bremen was naturally unwilling to lose the game by just one goal. They also wanted to be able to equalize or defeat Borussia Dortmund away from home.

Commentator Marcel Reif constantly mentioned the winning streak record created by Borussia Dortmund. He believed that perhaps this record put a burden on Borussia Dortmund's players, and they didn't know how to play. They thought too much about things in the game.

Fortunately, Borussia Dortmund withstood Werder Bremen's frantic counterattack in the final moments and narrowly won another victory at home 1-0.

"The game is over! Borussia Dortmund has won again! No matter what the scene is like, no matter what the process is, Borussia Dortmund has always won the victory of the game. The twenty-first consecutive league victory! While they are breaking records, they are also constantly accumulating the weight of the burden on their bodies... Look at the tired expressions of Borussia Dortmund's players. The league has just begun, and they have also won three consecutive victories, but the players' expressions are not relaxed..."

The broadcast screen showed close-up shots of some Borussia Dortmund players. Indeed, there was no excitement after the twenty-first consecutive victory. On the contrary, many people had a face... how should I put it? To put it nicely, they were calm and unfazed by honor or disgrace. To put it bluntly, they were confused, as if they had no idea whether they could continue to win like this in the future.

At the post-match press conference, Klopp did not admit that the twenty-one-game winning streak put pressure on the team.

"No, no one will嫌 (xián - dislike) having too many victories. We are pursuing victory in every game, so it is the same whether there is a record or not. It will not be because there are too many victories or consecutive victories that the pressure will increase. The players are just a little tired..."

Immediately a reporter asked: "But the season has just begun, and it is not even a week with two games recently. Does this mean that Borussia Dortmund's pre-season training in China for commercial tour games led to the team's physical reserve work not being done well?"

Klopp refused to answer this question.