Captain has come of age since returning from knee injury and proved his worth again with a vital winner against Gladbach
The final goal scored in front of Borussia Dortmund’s “yellow wall” in 2018 was a vital and a fitting one. When Marco Reus slid in at the back post to knock in the winner against Borussia Mönchengladbach, it gave his team some valuable peace of mind at the end of a year that has finally given some to him.
It all came together quite beautifully on Friday night. With the visitors occupying second place and having closed the gap at the top to six points with their midweek victory over Nürnberg and BVB’s loss at lowly Fortuna Düsseldorf, the pressure was on even more than had been anticipated. Dortmund knocked on the door fairly insistently from the off, but it was the sudden withdrawal of their top scorer, Paco Alcácer, with a muscle injury just after the half-hour mark that really kickstarted things.
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