{"id":3368,"date":"2026-08-29T22:44:02","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T22:44:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3368"},"modified":"2026-08-29T22:44:02","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T22:44:02","slug":"dortmund-secure-easy-win-as-elversberg-make-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3368","title":{"rendered":"Dortmund secure easy win as Elversberg make history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:16px;line-height:1.6\">\n<p><strong>Goals from Serhou Guirassy and Giannis Konstantelias steered Borussia Dortmund to a 2-0 victory over Hamburg in their Bundesliga season-opener \u200bon Saturday, while there were also wins for RB \u200cLeipzig and promoted Elversberg.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Guirassy provided a clinical finish inside the opening nine minutes to settle Dortmund, before new signing Konstantelias fired in a shot that \u200btook a deflection off a defender and into the net.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund \u200bfinished the game with 10 men when Samuele Inacio \u2060received a straight red card three minutes after coming off the \u200bbench for a dangerous tackle, but were able to complete the \u200bwin.<\/p>\n<p>Elversberg, from a town of just 13,000 people, made a dream Bundesliga debut with a 3-2 victory over Bayer Leverkusen.<\/p>\n<p>They raced into an early 2-0 \u200blead after goals from Lukas Petkov and Cole Campbell, and then \u200badded a third in the 46th minute through David Mokwa.<\/p>\n<p>Leverkusen pulled a goal \u200cback \u206013 minutes from the end through Patrik Schick and Christian Kofane netted a second in added time.<\/p>\n<p>Leipzig defeated Borussia Moenchengladbach 3-0 with Ridle Baku, Antonio Nusa and Rocco Reitz all on target, the \u200blatter against his \u200bformer side.<\/p>\n<p>Mainz \u2060and Paderborn played to a 0-0 draw, while Tim Skarke scored a 92nd equaliser for Union Berlin \u200bin their 3-3 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt.<\/p>\n<p>The latter \u200bled 3-1 \u2060in the 67th minute thanks to Younes Ebnoutalib\u2019s hat-trick, but could not hold on for the away win.<\/p>\n<p>Thijs Dallinga scored twice in the \u2060final \u200b18 minutes to secure a 3-2 \u200bwin for Cologne over Hoffenheim.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern Munich started their league season on Friday with a thumping \u200b5-1 win over Stuttgart.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Goals from Serhou Guirassy and Giannis Konstantelias steered Borussia Dortmund to a 2-0 victory over Hamburg in their Bundesliga season-opener \u200bon Saturday, while there were also wins for RB \u200cLeipzig and promoted Elversberg. Guirassy provided a clinical finish inside the opening nine minutes to settle Dortmund, before new signing Konstantelias fired in a shot that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[3575,703,5471,238,576,195],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-dortmund","tag-easy","tag-elversberg","tag-history","tag-secure","tag-win"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}