Borussia Mönchengladbach gave coach Gerardo Seoane a perfect competitive debut in the DFB Cup thanks to the newcomers.
On Friday evening (August 11th, 2023), the three-time cup winner lived up to his role as favorites in an easy 7-0 (4-0) win against the fifth division team TuS Bersenbrück. Seoane experienced a relaxed evening on the sidelines in the Osnabrück football stadium.
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Birthday boy Franck Honorat (21st minute, 56th), Nathan Ngoumou (26th), Tomas Cvancara (32nd, 35th), Robin Hack (78th) and Grant-Leon Ranos (90th) scored the visitors’ goals the Bremen Bridge. The Gladbacher continued a series, they had failed ten years ago in the first round of the cup.
Bersenbrück cheeky, Gladbach tries to get into the game
However, it was a cheeky start for the fifth-rate TuS Bersenbrück. The hosts went full throttle, took risks and put Gladbach under pressure surprisingly effectively. The new Borussia captain, goalkeeper Jonas Omlin, had to provide proof of work early on after recovering from shoulder problems. Patrick Papachristodolou’s shot from the penalty area was parried at the feet of Saikouba Manneh, who then shot Omlin (2′).
The “foals” seemed taken by surprise and revealed blatant deficiencies in the defensive allocation, struggled only slowly in front of the approximately 10,000 fans who traveled to Osnabrück.
TuS resistance dwindles: Cvancara strikes twice
But Borussia then mercilessly played off their own quality despite the weak start. First of all, summer signing Honorat scored his first goal for Gladbach after submitting the also new striker Cvancara, who later put together a brace in just four minutes before the half-time whistle. N’Goumou had also previously entered the scorer list.
With all goals conceded, Bersenbrück finally revealed major assignment problems after the intense start. The fifth division team could no longer keep up with Borussia’s pace, but continued to run.
The half-time lead of the guests from the Lower Rhine could have been even higher: Both Maximilian Wöber (26th) and the conspicuous midfielder N’Goumou (39th) had hit the woodwork, Cvancara made a slapstick miss from close range (39th minute). .).
Mönchengladbach’s jokers also sting
The course of the game brought no more surprises in the second half. Honorat turned up the heat again, continued to confuse the Bersenbrücker defense and created many good chances. He also used one of them to score his second goal.
After that, Bersenbrück was able to take a breather, Gladbach coach Seoane took down Honorat as the most conspicuous man of the game in the 72nd minute, as did midfield talent N’Goumou. Hack, brought in from Arminia Bielefeld before the season, also came into play. Just a few minutes later, the striker thanked him with a fine lob goal. And in Ranos another Borussia joker scored to make it 7-0.
Bundesliga start in Augsburg
Borussia Mönchengladbach has an away game on Matchday 1 of the Bundesliga. Then the “foals” travel to FC Augsburg (Saturday, August 19, 2023, 3:30 p.m.).
