Dortmund Permalukan Arsenal dengan Skor 2-0
Immobile and Aubameyang Fire Host to Victory for Dortmund
Editor : Ismail Gani
Translator : Novita Cahyadi
Dortmund (B2B) - Arsenal harus pulang dengan kepala tertunduk, ketika dikalahkan Dortmund 2-0 di Signal-Iduana-Park, kandang Dortmund, Rabu dini hari WIB. Dua gol Dortmund dicetak oleh Immobile menit 45 dan Aubameyang menit 48.
Ini merupakan ketiga kalinya Arsenal dan Dortmund melawan satu sama lain di fase grup.
Dortmund menerima tendangan pojok berkat Aubamayeng, tetapi Mertesacker mampu membersihkannya.
Menit 34, Alexis tak bisa mempertahankan bola, kemudian Kehl merebutnya. Kehl lalu memberikannya ke Aubameyang, tetapi kiper Arsenal, Szczesny mampu menghalaunya.
Arsenal mencoba menyerang lewat Ramsey dan Welbeck, tetapi tendangannya terlalu lemah, seperti dilansir Yahoo Sports.
Kemudian Ciro Immobile membuat Dortmund memimpin menit 45. Pemain baru Dortmund ini berlari melewati Koscienly dan tendangannya yang mengarah ke pojok bawah, tak bisa dihalau Szczesny.
Babak kedua dimulai dengan pergantian pemain oleh Dortmund. Matthias Ginter masuk menggantikan Sebastian Kehl.
Dua menit berselang Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang menggandakan kedudukan. Gol itu berawal ketika Kevin Grosskreutz mengirim umpan ke Aubameyang di ujung kotak pinalti. Szczesny mencoba untuk memotongnya itu, tetapi penyerang itu berhasil lewat dan mencari ruang kosong untuk mencetak gol.
Tertinggal dua gol Wenger memutuskan mengganti Ramsey dengan Cazorla dan Ozil dengan Chamberlain. Kemudian Arteta digantikan Podolski, tetapi skor tidak berubah.
Arsenal menguasai pertandingan sebanyak 56 persen, sementara Dortmund 44 persen. Namun, soal tendangan ke arah gawang, Dortmund melakukan tujuh kali percobaan, sementara Arsenal hanya satu kali.
Hingga babak kedua usai, skor tidak berubah untuk keunggulan Dortmund 2-0 Arsenal.
Dortmund - Borussia Dortmund comfortably beat Arsenal 2-0 to launch their Champions League Group D campaign with a dominant performance that saw them overwhelm their error-prone opponents on Tuesday.
Dortmund, losing finalists in 2013, took control of Group D on three points with Galatasaray and Anderlecht drawing 1-1 in Turkey in the other game in the section.
Italian forward Ciro Immobile, who until Tuesday had yet to score for Dortmund since joining in an 18 million euros ($23.33 million) move from Torino, gave the hosts a deserved lead on the stroke of halftime with a superb solo effort as they controlled possession and set the pace for much of the first half.
Winger Pierre Emerick Aubameyang, who terrorised the Arsenal defence with his speed and also hit the post, added another goal after the break as the Germans, missing several players through injury, avenged last season´s home loss to the English side.
Klopp said before the game that his team would try to keep possession of the ball and that is exactly what they did in a stormy start that left the English side boxed in their own half.
Defender Sokratis Papastathopoulos and last season´s Serie A top scorer Immobile had a couple of efforts that sailed wide before Arsenal goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny denied Gabon international Aubameyang from close range.
Arsenal were running low on defenders, with the injured Mathieu Debuchy and left back Nacho Monreal staying behind and Calum Chambers on the bench but being treated for tonsilitis, so coach Arsene Wenger drafted in 19-year-old debutant Hector Bellerin to help stem the flow of Dortmund attacks.
Bellerin was, however, picked out by Dortmund players who charge down their left wing, leaving the Spaniard, on his first ever start for Arsenal, overworked.
