Borussia Mönchengladbach scores against Wolfsburg after being 2-0 down – winning goal disallowed in added time

Point saved but liberation missed: Borussia Mönchengladbach is still on the spot in the Bundesliga relegation battle after a hard-earned draw against VfL Wolfsburg. The two basement children separated in a fast-paced and turbulent encounter 2:2 (1:2) and continue to feel the direct competition in the neck.

Marcus Thuram (42nd) and substitute Breel Embolo (82nd) ​​gave Borussia at least one point a week after the 0: 6 debacle in Dortmund, the equalizer came after the red card against Maxence Lacroix (70th) in excess.

Jonas Wind (6th) and Sebastiaan Bornauw (33rd) gave the Wolves a 2-0 lead. Lower Saxony and coach Florian Kohfeldt were able to live better with the point in the end, as they are further up the table from coach Adi Hütter’s ailing Borussia.

After two minutes of silence – one for Gladbach’s young professional Jordi Bongard, who died in an accident, another as a reaction to the war in Ukraine – the 10,000 spectators saw an extremely fast-paced basement duel. Borussia could have taken the lead after 35 seconds through Thuram, but instead fell behind with the visitors’ first chance.

The ball landed at Ridle Baku via Max Kruse, who had scored twice for his former employer Union Berlin just five weeks earlier in Borussia Park. When he crossed in, world champion Matthias Ginter was far too far away from Wind, who scored his second goal in his fourth game for Wolfsburg.

After the early goal, the encounter continued to offer high entertainment value, which was also due to the numerous mistakes made by both teams. The ice-cold Wolfsburg also used their second chance: Bornauw was allowed to head in after a corner in the six-yard box, again Ginter looked bad. Ex-Cologne Bornauw then cheered exuberantly in front of the Gladbach curve, which annoyed goalkeeper Yann Sommer immensely and earned him a yellow card.

Thuram headed in just before the break – it was the Frenchman’s first goal of the season. After the change of sides, Borussia pushed for an equalizer in an open exchange of blows, Ginter failed at goalkeeper Koen Casteels (63rd).

Kruse called for a penalty on the other side, but ran a few steps further after hitting his ankle – that’s probably why he couldn’t whistle. “There’s no discussion at all, that’s a clear penalty,” coach Kohfeldt later complained.

Lacroix was the last man to see red after video evidence because of a handball, Gladbach threw everything forward and was rewarded with Embolo. In injury time, Ginter scored for the supposed 3-2 home win, but referee Reichel did not give the goal due to Patrick Herrmann’s previous foul play (90+1).

The votes for the game:

Max Kruse (VfL Wolfsburg): “We set out to win here. We led 2-0 and conceded two stupid goals. Then we get a stupid red card and in the end we’re lucky that it’s only 2-2. I wonder what’s going on in the basement do it. It can’t be the fair play idea that I fall straight down. Then I always have to fall straight down and there are penalties. Clearly he can’t hit me. I don’t know how many people are sitting in the basement, but they were very competent not.”

Jonas Hofmann (Borussia Monchengladbach): “We’ve had to score a few goals in the last few weeks to win games. Our approach has to be to go 1-0 with our quality and not always have to score three or four goals. We have to keep working and be better defensively , so that we can win games on defence. We have good attacking qualities, but the approach has to be to concede fewer goals.”

Marcel Schäfer (Sports Director VfL Wolfsburg): “It was a very turbulent and emotional game. Unfortunately, despite a few chances, we couldn’t bring the 2-0 lead home. In principle, we were perhaps not strong enough in the decisive moments. There were one or two things worth discussing Decision, that was also part of this game.”

Koen Casteels (VfL Wolfsburg): “Gladbach are a good team that isn’t where it belongs. On the other hand, we also had chances to decide the game. But we didn’t take advantage of them, we’re still missing that a bit at the moment.”

The tweet about the game:

Borussia Mönchengladbach come back from a two-goal deficit and almost turned the game around completely.

That was noticeable: Lacroix of all people

Lacroix of all people, who had recorded the fastest sprint to date in the game, was too slow in the decisive running duel with Gladbach’s Thuram, so that he didn’t know what to do other than clear the ball with his hand. The following dismissal heralded the strong final phase of the hosts, in which Gladbach almost even managed to turn the game around completely.

The stats: 559

Gladbach’s star striker Marcus Thuram, who was one of Gladbach’s top scorers in the past two seasons, scored his first Bundesliga goal of the current season after 559 goalless minutes.

(with SID)