Full time: Paderborn 1-6 Dortmund
Peep peep! Dortmund consolidate second place with an ultimately crushing victory over the bottom club Paderborn. It was 0-0 at half-time, but Dortmund upped their game to devastating effect after the break. Jadon Sancho scored a hat-trick on his return to the starting XI, and was booked for revealing a ‘Justice for George Floyd’ T-shirt when he scored his first goal. He was ever so impressive, as were Dortmund once they got into their stride. Thanks for your company, goodnight!
GOAL! Paderborn 1-6 Dortmund (Sancho 90+1)
A hat-trick for Jadon Sancho on his return to the side! Dortmund broke two on one, with Snacho on the ball. He could have given the goal to Hazard but decided, as you would, to take the hat-trick himself with a cool finish. He is seriously good, you know.
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GOAL! Paderborn 1-5 Dortmund (Schmelzer 89)
It’s 5-1 now! Witsel’s low cross from the right is bundled into the net from six yards by Marcel Schmelzer, who has had a whale of a time since coming on as substitute.
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88 min Paderborn look shattered. Zingerle keeps the score vaguely respectable with a quite brilliant fingertip save to divert Reyna’s low drive past the post.
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86 min Dortmund make their last substitutions. Leonardo Balerdi and Mateu Morey replace Can and Hakimi.
GOAL! Paderborn 1-4 Dortmund (Hakimi 85)
Hakimi gets the fourth with a fine finish. It was set up by the other wing-back Schmelzer, who picked up a loose ball and ran across the edge of the area before finding Hakimi. He did the rest with an emphatic low drive into the far corner.
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83 min More changes for Paderborn. Abdelhamid Sabiri and Dennis Jastrzembski replace Vasiliadis and Antwi-Adjei.
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82 min Drager is booked for a late tackle on Reyna.
80 min The match is petering out. Two more changes for Dortmund, with the teenager Gio Reyna and the not-so-teenage Marcel Schmelzer replacing Brandt and Guerreiro.
76 min A third change for Padernborn, with Kai Proger replacing the impressive Holtmann. His first contribution is a volley on the run that is blocked on the edge of the area by a Dortmund defender.
76 min Hummels is booked for a foul on Zolinski.
GOAL! Paderborn 1-3 Dortmund (Sancho 74)
Sancho restores Dortmund’s two-goal lead straight away. Hazard’s cutback evaded the wrongfooted Strohdiek, and Sancho shifted the ball onto his left foot before thrashing a rising drive through the left hand of the diving Zingerle. That was a really good finish from Sancho. No T-shirt celebration this time.
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GOAL! Paderborn 1-2 Dortmund (Hunemeier 72 pen)
Hunemeier smacks the penalty into the net, high to his left. Burki went the right way, and I think he got a slight touch, but it was high enough that he couldn’t properly reach it. Excellent penalty.
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70 min: PENALTY TO PADERBORN! Can has been penalised for handball after throwing himself in front of Drager’s shot. It hit him on the elbow, which was tight to his body. Under the new laws it was probably a penalty. Can is also booked, either for the handball or dissent.
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69 min Lovely play from Dortmund. Hakimi, Hazard and Brandt combine to tee up Can, whose sidefooted shot from 20 yards is saved by the tumbling Zingerle.
69 min A change for Dortmund: Axel Witsel replaces Thomas Delaney.
68 min After a frustrating first half, Dortmund are cruising to victory. Their next match is a cracker at home to in-form Hertha Berlin on Saturday.
65 min A double change for Paderborn: Ben Zolinski and Sven Michel replace Srbeny and Mamba.
62 min: Srbeny has a goal disallowed for offside. No complaints from Paderborn; he was well past the last defender.
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61 min Can’s cutback flashes across the face of goal. Dortmund have been terrific since half-time.
58 min Sancho was booked for his celebration. I’m not sure whether that’s because he took his top off or because he had a political message on his T-shirt.
After Marcus Thuram took a knee earlier, Jadon Sancho celebrates scoring against Paderborn. pic.twitter.com/zQxfqg8Kg8
— Barry Glendenning (@bglendenning) May 31, 2020
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GOAL! Paderborn 0-2 Dortmund (Sancho 57)
Jadon Sancho scores the second. It was made majestically by Brandt, whose excellent first touch allowed him to surge into the area and slide the ball across to give Sancho an open goal. Sancho celebrated by taking off his shirt to reveal a T-shirt that says ‘Justice for George Floyd’.
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56 min “How’s it going, Rob?” says Liz White. “What are your thoughts on Bayern’s goal celebration music yesterday?”
Oh, I didn’t notice it. Was it Perfume Genius?
GOAL! Paderborn 0-1 Dortmund (Hazard 54)
It’s been coming since half-time. It was a decent move from Dortmund, starting with a raking crossfield pass finds Guerreiro on the left. He played in the underlapping Can, who surged past his man and crossed towards the near post. Zingerle fumbled it straight at the feet of Hazard, who scored from five yards.
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52 min: Another chance for Dortmund! Brandt finds the overlapping (and possibly offside) Sancho on the right, and his excellent low cross is flicked wide from eight yards by Hazard. He should have scored.
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49 min: Fine save from Zingerle! Now a big chance at the other end. Guerreiro’s low cross is miscontrolled by Sancho and then dummied superbly by Can. It runs across the area to Hakimi, whose low shot is diverted wide by the outstretched leg of Ziegler. Brilliant save, that. The resulting corner is headed onto the roof of the net by Hummels.
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48 min: So close for Paderborn! Holtmann drags a dangerous low cross from the left that just evades both Mamba and Antwi-Adjei, waiting in front of an open goal.
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47 min Apparently there was only one foul in the first half, which is kind of astonishing.
46 min Peep peep! Dortmund begin the second half, oh yes they do.
Half-time reading
Half time: Paderborn 0-0 Dortmund
A job well done by the bottom club Paderborn, whose diligent defending has restricted Dortmund to unclear chances. See you in 10 minutes for the second half.
45 min: Good chance for Brandt! Hakimi surges into space down the right and slides the ball towards Sancho on the edge of the area. He lets it run beautifully to Brandt, who whacks it miles over the bar. Decent chance, that.
44 min Can screams with frustration after blootering the ball into orbit from the edge of the area. Dortmund look increasingly irritated with Paderborn’s refusal to roll over.
43 min “Hey Rob,” says JR in Illinois. “Is there any word on whether or not the upcoming Premier League games will be broadcast with fake crowd noise? Although we have much, much, much. much, much, much bigger problems in the world I really am opposed to the fake noise. Aside from the fact that I prefer real things to not be purposefully misrepresented it’s very distracting because all I can think while I’m watching now is ‘That crowd noise isn’t really happening.’”
I think the Premier League are planning to use the same ambient backdrop as before lockdown.
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41 min Another good break from Paderborn. Holtmann plays the ball out to the overlapping Antwi-Adjei, who cracks over from a tight angle. Burki had it covered, though it was a decent strike.
39 min Dortmund work the ball from left to right before Hakimi’s low cross flashes across the face of goal.
36 min The stretching Strohdiek shanks a clearance behind for another Dortmund. Hazard swings it deep towards Can, who heads wide under pressure.
34 min Dortmund are looking increasingly dangerous. Paderborn have defended excellently so far, but it’ll be hard to do this for 90 minutes.
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30 min: Chance for Hazard! Strohdiek’s backheader falls short of the keeper Zingerle. Hazard gets to it first and tries to cushion it past Zingerle, who dives to his right to make a vital block.
29 min Holtmann’s long-range shot ends up somewhere near Amsterdam. Told you he was a good player.
26 min: Just wide from Guerreiro! A rare opportunity to counter-attack allows Dortmund to finally find some space. Sancho and Brandt combined nicely to set up Guerreiro, whose fierce low shot beats the keeper Zingerle before hitting Collins on the line and deflecting just wide of the far post! I don’t know how much Collins knew about it, but it was a goalsaving touch.
22 min Gerrit Holtmann, on the left of midfield for Paderborn, looks a decent player - fast, aggressive and with good awareness of the available passing options.
20 min Dortmund are starting to dominate possession, with Sancho increasingly influential. Paderborn look a real threat on the break, though.
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17 min: Good save from Zingerle! Dortmund’s first chance falls to Hazard, who runs onto a long pass down the inside-right channel from Piszczeck and spanks a half-volley that is blocked at the near post by Zingerle.
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15 min You’d expect Dortmund’s class to tell eventually, but at the moment Paderborn are the better - and the hungrier - team.
13 min Another crisp, economical counter-attack from Paderborn ends with Antwi-Adjei whacking over the bar from the edge of the box. It was a reasonable opportunity, if not as good as his first a couple of minutes ago.
11 min: Chance for Paderborn! That was a terrific counter-attack. Holtmann won the ball on the edge of the area before surging into space and eventually over the halfway line. Holtmann, Mamby and Srbeny then moved the ball across the field to find Antwi-Adjei in space on the right side of the box, but his low drive went well wide of the far post.
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10 min Nothing much to report. I’m not sure Sancho has touched the ball yet.
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7 min Paderborn have had plenty of the ball in the early minutes.
4 min Can’s low cross from the right is screwed behind for a corner by Drager, who looked on nervously as the ball whistled past the far post.
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3 min It’s been a lively start from Paderborn, who are in reasonable form: they’ve drawn all three games since the restart.
1 min Peep peep! Paderborn kick off from right to left. They are in blue; Dortmund are wearing yellow.
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The return match, in November, was bizarro entertainment: Paderborn led 3-0 at half-time before Dortmund came back to draw.
Pre-match reading
Gladbach 4-1 Union Berlin is the final score in the early game. They move up to third, and the race for Champions League places is hella tight.
Team news
Jadon Sancho starts for Dortmund for the first time since spring break. It looks as if, in the absence of Erling Haaland, Thorgan Hazard will play as a duplicitious nine.
SC Paderborn 07 (4-1-4-1) Zingerle; Drager, Strohdiek, Hunemeier, Collins; Schonlau; Antwi-Adjei, Vasiliadis, Srbeny, Holtmann; Mamba.
Substitutes: Huth, Jans, Ritter, Proger, Sabiri, Evans, Michel, Zolinski, Jastrzembski.
Borussia Dortmund (3-4-2-1) Burki; Piszczek, Hummels, Akanji; Hakimi, Delaney, Can, Guerreiro; Sancho, Brandt; Hazard.
Substitutes: Hitz, Balerdi, Morey, Schmelzer, Gotze, Witsel, Reyna, Fuhrich, Raschl.
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Preamble
Hello. That low squeak you’ve been hearing since Tuesday night is the air coming out of Borussia Dortmund’s season. The 1-0 defeat to Bayern Munich ended their title hopes at a stroke, and now all they have to play for is the usual Champions League place. It’s quite a comedown for a team that has spent much of the the season dreaming of a first Championship since 2012. If they hadn’t seen such riches, they could live with being poor.
The fight for those Champions League places is seriously tight. If Gladbach beat Union Berlin in the early game - they lead 3-1 after 70 minutes - there will be only two points separating Dortmund in second and Leipzig in fifth. Dortmund have a pretty good run-in, though, with three of their last six games against teams in the bottom four.
That starts with today’s match away to the bottom club Paderborn, a game Dortmund will expect to win even without the injured Erling Haaland. The match should tell us how badly they have been affected by that Bayern defeat. If it does impact upon their morale and focus, they might not even make the top four.
Kick off 5pm BST, 6pm CEST.
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