The Borussia Dortmund Chronicle
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Maximilian Beier runs at them all day
Successful dribbles: 34. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.
Match15 Feb 2027
Borussia Dortmund are in among the leaders
Position 2 and 59 points on the board. Nobody at the ground will say the word out loud yet, and everybody at the ground is thinking it.
Player ratings15 Feb 2027
Both of them Deniz Undav's — 9.34
2 goals, and the second was the one that settled it. Marked 9.34, and he could have had a third with better luck at the near post.
Match13 Feb 2027
Nobody wins at Borussia Dortmund
13 home matches unbeaten. Visiting sides arrive already talking about the atmosphere, which is usually the sign that they have half-lost before kickoff.
Market15 Feb 2027
Felix Nmecha raises the bar for Borussia Dortmund
“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Borussia Dortmund heard it as anything else.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words exchanged at Borussia Dortmund
Nico Schlotterbeck and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Words at Borussia Dortmund training over how hard people work
Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Deniz Undav is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.
Match13 Feb 2027
Deniz Undav sends Borussia Dortmund past Borussia Mönchengladbach
It finished 2‑1, and it was Deniz Undav’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to Borussia Dortmund.
Squad15 Feb 2027
Borussia Dortmund lose Mussa Kaba
42 days, the medical staff say, and medical staff are optimists by profession. The team sheet will look wrong without him.
In brief
- Market One of our own: Ralf Krüger joins the Borussia Dortmund first team
- Market Borussia Dortmund promote David Böhm from within
- Market Sven Lorenz steps up from the Borussia Dortmund academy