It sounds unbelievable, but it’s completely true: Mainz tripped Borussia again! After they snatched the championship title from Dortmund’s hands in the middle of Westphalia in the last round of last season, they continued the trend of shocking 80,000 plus fans of the popular club. This draw certainly doesn’t hurt as much as it did seven months ago, but another two points dropped against Mainz (1:1) is having huge repercussions on their Champions League spot. The Bundesliga title was lost way before the Mainz draw.The situation is not at all naive. This is the fourth league match in a row in which Dortmund have failed to win, with the consequence of dropping to the fifth position. RB Leipzig is now six points further up, and Stuttgart, if they beat Augsburg today, will spend the winter at plus-seven compared to Borussia. Bearing in mind how much Edin Terzic’s company is prone to mistakes this season, this is a serious situation for the Millionaires, the one in which they haven’t been in a long time. Statistically speaking, Dortmund was not even particularly better than Mainz. Apart from far less possession of the ball, the visitors generally played well in other segments.Borussia Dortmund this season pic.twitter.com/yiQHE1J5rh— Troll Football (@TrollFootball) December 19, 2023 Borussia took the lead thanks to a great goal from their best player this year – Julian Brandt. It was the 29th minute when the German representative fired an ‘arrow’ directly from a free kick. But instead of using the lead as a motive to score another one and close the game early, they seemed to fall asleep. After Marko Richter’s corner, the ball went straight to the other end of the field, Philip Mwene crossed, Sepp van den Berg jumped the highest in the box and equalized. Borussia had the entire second half to take a new lead and win – they failed. Terzić tried to shake up his guys with changes, replaced Fulkrug with Haller, and gave a chance to the somewhat forgotten Gio Reyna, but it wasn’t worth it. And now the coach in on the hot spot also…##NAJAVA_MECA_7753540##BUNDESLIGA – MATCHDAY 16TuesdayBorussia D. – Mainz 1-1 (1-1)/Brandt 29 – Van den Berg 43/Bremen – Leipzig 1-1 (0-0)/Njinmah 75 – Openda 47/Hoffenheim – Darmstadt 3-3 (2-1)/Kramaric 14(p), Bebou 28, 66 – Pfeiffer 23, Skarke 57, 85/
