Borussia Dortmund: The journey of Die Borussen

Craborum takes the reigns at Dortmund

Borussia Dortmund have appointed Craborum (me) as manager for the forthcoming bundesliga season. I am going to do a story so I'll keep you updated with my progress.

The First Friendly of the season was an away encounter against Yverdon. We put together an outstanding performance and destroyed them 4-0.

Borussia Dortmund

Sebastien Kehl (pen 12)
Neven Subotic (34)
Kevin Grobkreutz (62,65)

Yverdon

Theo Aubry booked (37)

Dortmund ease past youthful Q.P.R

In Dortmund's first home friendly of the season the had a bit of a walkover against a very young and in-experienced Q.P.R side. Kevin Grobkreutz tucked Kagawa's delightful through ball into the bottom left hand corner with a clinical finish. Grobkreutz added his second just shy of 25 minutes with an easy tap in from Mario Gotze's low cross. Rock solid cb Mats Hummels completed the scoring with a near post header from Gotz'es corner.

Dortmund

Grobkreutz (4,23)
Hummels (70)

Subotic - Booked (28)

Q.P.R

Cisse - Booked (31)
Jameson - Booked (84)

Die Burrusens miss out on penalties against Schalke

Dortmund definitely showed they need to work on penalty taking as Kevin Grobkreutz was the only Borussian to find the net from 12 yards. Our 1st half performance was poor and we deservedly trailed going into the break. It really looked like we missed injured duo Lucas Barrios and Mats Hummels. However, after having a massive go at my side in the team talk (agressive) seemed to motivate them and we were the better side after the break and deserved to at least get a goal. We did after 88 minutes with Mario Gotze firing Kringe's pull back into the roof of the net. However it wasn't to be as Schalke scored all their penalties to lift the German Super cup at the VELTINS Arena.

Dortmund

Gotze (88)

Khel - Booked (4)

Schalke

Raul (40)

Papadopolus - Booked - (56)

Dortmund fly into German Cup second round

A brilliant team performance saw Borussia Dortmund advance to the 2nd round of the German cup after seeing off Rostock. We dominated the early stages but we just could't seem to apply the finish with Kagawa and man of the match missing 1 on 1s with the keeper; however on half an hour we took the lead through Club Captain and Serbian Powerhouse Neven Subotic as he nodded in Moritz Leitner's corner. It was 1-0 all the way through to 77 minutes when Kevin Grobkreutz scored a simple tap in to round off a great counter attack. Grobkreutz doubled his tally to make if 3-0 in stoppage time to tuck in Kagawa's outstanding through ball.

Dortmund

Subotic (30)
Grobkreutz (77,90+3)

Grobkreutz - Booked - (43)
Leitner- (66)

Rostock

No bookings.

Man of the Match: Kevin Grobkreutz (Dortmund) - 8.8

Levekusen 4-3 Dortmund

Well Well Welll, what a game but a diabolical defensive show cost us. Having been 2-0 down to make it 3-2 was amazing thanks to 2 Grobkreutz goals and the funniest own goal I have ever see.; Grobkreutz was bearing down on goal and got tackled, it came to thier keeper and he fumbled it and hoofed it into the roof of his own net.
LOL!!!. However 2 late goals from Kiebling won it for leverkusen. SO FRUSTRATING.

Dortmund

Leno og (43)
Grobkreutz (55,62)

Chris Lowe booked (47)
Neven Subotic booked (12)

Leverkusen

Kiebling (9,83,87)
Ballck (pen,20)

Renato Agosto- Booked (54)

Dortmund 0-1 Stuttgart

Well, what else can I say really. A very poor performance, the teaam needs to sort things out now.

SC Frieburg 0-1 Dortmund

At las, our first win and what a performance. I'm sure if we had a recognised striker we would have won by way more. Subotic was outstanding and scored the only goal of the match nodding in Kagawa's free kick. Hopefully the team can string together some results now,

Dortmund

Subotic (4)

Shmelzer booked (32)

Man of the match: Neven Subotic (Dortmund)- 8.5

Dortmund drawn in Group C of the champions league

Lyon
Dortmund
Ajax
Real Madrid

Dortmund Destroy Koln with an outstanding display

Dortmund 4-0 Koln

What a fantastic performance from the team with Kagawa leading our attack to great effect.

Dortmund

Kagawa (4,55)
Grobkreutz (12)
Hummels (76)

Subotic

Kagawa (Dortmund)-9.1

Dortmund extend their winning run at the Allianz Arena

FC Bayern 1-3 Dortmund

A fabulous team performance produces a brilliant result for the team against a Bayern team packed full of stars. Gotze's creativity proved to be lethal as he had a part in all 3 of our goals. Kevin Grobkreutz turns out to be possessing a "Golden Boot" as he bagged a brace to add his tally up to 8 goals so far.

Dortmund

Grobkreutz (25,45)
Gotze (83)

Bayern

Gomez (56)

[img]Toni Kroos

Mario Gotze (Dortmund)- 9.0[/img]

Dortmund draw SC Freiburg in German Cup 2nd round

Gritty performance seals draw at the Bernabeu

An outstanding defensive effort ensures a hard fought draw against Real Madrid in our first group game in our champions league campaign. Subotic was a rock at the back and Robert Leandowski (back from injury) gave us a lethal touch in front of goal as he turned our first clear cut chance into a goal with a clinical finish to draw things level on 79 minutes.

Dortmund

Leandowkowski (79)

Hummels
Khel

Real Madrid

Benzema (21)

Neven Subotic (Dortmund) - 8.7

really enjoying this thread mate, what formation do you use ?

I use a 4-2-3-1 with 2 cm's 2 wingers and an amc.