Sportfreunde Lotte were held goal-less for the first time in this season’s DFB-Pokal and failed to progress past Dortmund in the quarter-final. Despite a strong and even first-half, it was not meant to be for the third-tier team. BVB now face the competition’s most successful team in the form of Bayern München, and should they triumph in Munich, then they will have achieved their fourth consecutive appearance in the DFB-Pokal final. Such a feat has never before been achieved. DFB.de has the facts following BVB’s 3-0 win against Lotte in Osnabrück.
Record hunters: Borussia Dortmund are in the semi-final for the fourth time in a row – a new club record. With that comes the chance to go further and play for a fourth consecutive time in the final, which would be a DFB-Pokal record.
Young players: Christian Pulisic (18 and a half years of age) became Dortmund’s second-youngest DFB-Pokal goalscorer in the club’s history after scoring to make it 1-0. Only Ralf Augustin (18-years-old) who scored against Borussia Neunkirchen in 1978 was younger. 17-year-old Alexander Isak sat on the bench to begin with, and with his substitution became the youngest Dortmund player to appear in a Pokal match for 80 years. Friedrich Ihbel was 16 years old when he played in 1937, in what was then known as the Tschammer-Pokal. With an average age of 25 years and 239 days, manager Thomas Tuchel deployed BVB’s youngest DFB-Pokal starting eleven in almost three-and-a-half years. The 2013 team that beat TSV 1860 München 2-0 had an average age of 24 years and 299 days old.
Playmaker: Ousmane Dembele set up Christian Pulisic for the go-ahead goal and notched his 15th assist for BVB.
Sure-scorers: Dortmund have only failed to score in one of their last 16 DFB-Pokal games, with the anomaly coming against Bayern in the 2016 Final (4-3 loss on penalties). André Schürrle has also been successful: The World Champion has scored more in 2017 (three times) than he has in all games prior to the winter-break (twice).
No slip-ups: In the last 18 Pokal duels with lower-ranked teams, Dortmund have always progressed. The last upset came in the 2010/11 season in the second round against Offenbach Kickers (4-2 on penalties).
No gifts from the guests: Dortmund have only failed to progress once in their last 21 DFB-Pokal games on the road: The exception came in a 1-0 loss to Bayern München in the quarter-finals of the 2012/13 season. Now BVB play guest at the Allianz Arena again.
Early goals: Lotte had already conceded five goals in the opening 13 minutes of their games, whilst Dortmund have allowed none, but there was a threat of conceding early against Lotte, were it not for Roman Bürki’s parry in the 11th minute against Lotte’s Tim Wendel. In the remainders of their games past the 13th minute, Lotte conceded five more times in total, meaning that their total goals for and against statistic stood at 22:10.
A worthy farewell: Lotte left the competition on a high, despite the loss. With 10 goals against and 22 goals for, and coming away with the ball in 50% of their one-on-one duels, and one great final first-half (7 shots), they fought well throughout the tournament and went down doing so, in what was the greatest game in the club’s history.
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Sportfreunde Lotte were held goal-less for the first time in this season’s DFB-Pokal and failed to progress past Dortmund in the quarter-final. Despite a strong and even first-half, it was not meant to be for the third-tier team. BVB now face the competition’s most successful team in the form of Bayern München, and should they triumph in Munich, then they will have achieved their fourth consecutive appearance in the DFB-Pokal final. Such a feat has never before been achieved. DFB.de has the facts following BVB’s 3-0 win against Lotte in Osnabrück.
Record hunters: Borussia Dortmund are in the semi-final for the fourth time in a row – a new club record. With that comes the chance to go further and play for a fourth consecutive time in the final, which would be a DFB-Pokal record.
Young players: Christian Pulisic (18 and a half years of age) became Dortmund’s second-youngest DFB-Pokal goalscorer in the club’s history after scoring to make it 1-0. Only Ralf Augustin (18-years-old) who scored against Borussia Neunkirchen in 1978 was younger. 17-year-old Alexander Isak sat on the bench to begin with, and with his substitution became the youngest Dortmund player to appear in a Pokal match for 80 years. Friedrich Ihbel was 16 years old when he played in 1937, in what was then known as the Tschammer-Pokal. With an average age of 25 years and 239 days, manager Thomas Tuchel deployed BVB’s youngest DFB-Pokal starting eleven in almost three-and-a-half years. The 2013 team that beat TSV 1860 München 2-0 had an average age of 24 years and 299 days old.
Playmaker: Ousmane Dembele set up Christian Pulisic for the go-ahead goal and notched his 15th assist for BVB.
Sure-scorers: Dortmund have only failed to score in one of their last 16 DFB-Pokal games, with the anomaly coming against Bayern in the 2016 Final (4-3 loss on penalties). André Schürrle has also been successful: The World Champion has scored more in 2017 (three times) than he has in all games prior to the winter-break (twice).
No slip-ups: In the last 18 Pokal duels with lower-ranked teams, Dortmund have always progressed. The last upset came in the 2010/11 season in the second round against Offenbach Kickers (4-2 on penalties).
No gifts from the guests: Dortmund have only failed to progress once in their last 21 DFB-Pokal games on the road: The exception came in a 1-0 loss to Bayern München in the quarter-finals of the 2012/13 season. Now BVB play guest at the Allianz Arena again.
Early goals: Lotte had already conceded five goals in the opening 13 minutes of their games, whilst Dortmund have allowed none, but there was a threat of conceding early against Lotte, were it not for Roman Bürki’s parry in the 11th minute against Lotte’s Tim Wendel. In the remainders of their games past the 13th minute, Lotte conceded five more times in total, meaning that their total goals for and against statistic stood at 22:10.
A worthy farewell: Lotte left the competition on a high, despite the loss. With 10 goals against and 22 goals for, and coming away with the ball in 50% of their one-on-one duels, and one great final first-half (7 shots), they fought well throughout the tournament and went down doing so, in what was the greatest game in the club’s history.
