2023-12-06 22:56:36
Published6. December 2023, 23:56
Football: Stuttgart knocks Dortmund out of the Cup
The duel at the top of the round of 16 returned to Stuttgart. Leverkusen also passed.
Gregor Kobel can only watch the ball pushed by Silas Katompa Mvumpa slip into his goal.
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Stuttgart, with Leonidas Stergiou from the 80th minute, qualified for the quarter-finals of the German Cup following their 2-0 victory once morest Gregor Kobel’s Borussia Dortmund on Wednesday in the clash between the 3rd and 5th in the Bundesliga .
After a rather closed first half, a goal from Guinean striker Serhou Guirassy (54th) and a success from Silas Katompa Mvumpa (77th) allowed VfB Stuttgart to gain the upper hand over the Ruhr club, five-time winners of the Cup and Paris SG’s next opponent in the Champions League.
Another feat from Saarbrücken
The surprise of the evening once once more came from 3rd division resident Saarbrücken, who defeated Bayern Munich in the previous round and who this time brought down 7th in the Bundesliga, Eintracht Frankfurt (2-0).
In the other matches played on Wednesday, the current Bundesliga leader, Bayer Leverkusen, with Granit Xhaka, easily won (3-1) once morest D2 club Paderborn.
In the last match of the evening, a duel between 2nd division clubs, Hertha Berlin eliminated Hamburg on penalties (3-3 ap, 5 tab to 3).
The other qualified for the quarters, who obtained their ticket on Tuesday are Mönchengladbach and three clubs playing in D2: Kaiserslautern, Sankt Pauli and Fortuna Düsseldorf.
The German Cup is played over a single match, on the field of the first draw.
(AFP/YDE)
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