Jadon Sancho scored twice as Borussia Dortmund bounced back from their 5-0 defeat to Bayern Munich with a slender win over Mainz.
2018/2019 Bundesliga
2-1
Match Events
6' Almost an own goal!
Sancho plays a short corner to Götze and he turns and crosses to the near post. The ball bounces off Latza and onto the far post before bouncing clear.
Dortmund starting well here. Delaney then sees his header go into the hands of Müller from the corner.
14' CHANCE! Bruun Larsen's shot saved
The Dane volleys the ball at goal, but Müller's reflexes save the day as he tips the ball away from goal.
17' GOAL! Dortmund 1-0 Mainz (Sancho)
Wolf's long ball to Götze down the right flank is brilliant, and so is his touch on his chest to bring it down.
He then looks up and crosses to Sancho at the back post and he smashes the ball through Müller, and into the back of the net.
24' GOAL! Dortmund 2-0 Mainz (Sancho)
Lovely movement from Dortmund as Götze, Reus and Delaney all combine to send the Danish midfielder down the left wing.
He cuts the ball back into the box where Sancho has pulled away from his marker. He hits the ball on his left foot, it deflects off Niakhate, and beyond Müller.
43' Mainz's Onisiwo hits the post!
Mateta is played in down the left wing with space to run into the box. He looks up and finds Onisiwo in the box, and plays him the ball, which Onisiwo flicks towards goal with a nice spin but the ball clips the outside of Bürki's post.
54' NICE SHOT! Boetius' free kick saved
The Dutchman's free-kick from all of 30 yards out travels low towards the goal, but Bürki is down well to make sure he's behind it and he gathers the ball at the second time of asking.
57' SHOT! Wolf's shot saved
A powerful low shot towards goal is sent by Marius Wolf from just outside the box, and forces Müller into a solid save at his near post. Both sides doing plenty of attacking and plenty of shooting so far.
83' GOAL! Dortmund 2-1 Mainz (Quaison)
A scramble in the box after Bürki made an outstanding save to his right from Onisiwo's header.
The ball bounced out only as far as Hack, who smashed it low towards goal, and it was poked home by Quaison at the back post.
87' Great saves from Burki!
What an insane situation there as Bürki looked to make three or four scrambling saves on his line.
The first from Ujah's header, the rebound from the substitute but the ball bounced back out and Ujah had a third go but the ball was stuck on the line with Bürki holding onto it.
Match Report
Borussia Dortmund moved back to the Bundesliga summit after two goals from Jadon Sancho secured a 2-1 win over Mainz on Saturday.
Bayern Munich took control of the title race with a thumping 5-0 win over Lucien Favre's side last weekend, but Dortmund returned to winning ways to leapfrog Niko Kovac's men ahead of their game with Fortuna Dusseldorf on Sunday.
England international Sancho was in scintillating form from the outset, scoring twice from close range inside the opening 24 minutes.
Mainz responded well to those early setbacks, twice hitting the post through Karim Onisiwo, and set up a tense finale when Robin Quaison prodded home seven minutes from time. Dortmund held on, though, to crank up the pressure on Bayern.
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