Dortmund win German Cup at 4th attempt
May 27, 2017 - 8:19 PM Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored a cheeky penalty for Borussia Dortmund on Saturday to win the German Cup final over Eintracht Frankfurt 2-1 in what could have been his last game for the club.Aubameyang, the Bundesliga top scorer this season with 31, chipped the ball straight down the middle as Frankfurt goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky dived, giving Dortmund the title at the fourth attempt after losing the previous three finals.
He has been the subject of transfer speculation linking him with a big-money move away from Dortmund in the summer.
Ousmane Dembele got Dortmund off to a great start in the eighth minute when he eluded Jesus Vallejo on the right and curled the ball inside the far post.
Police made an appeal to Dortmund fans not to celebrate with pyrotechnics after more were lit behind the west-end goal. The final had kicked off under a cloud of smoke after flares were lit among Dortmund fans.
Frankfurt gradually worked their way back into the game - Haris Seferovic and Ante Rebic both went close - before Rebic equalised in the 29th. Marco Fabian won the ball in midfield, played Mijat Gacinovic through, and Gacinovic squared the ball for Rebic to beat Roman Buerki in the Dortmund goal.
Backed by outstanding support behind the east-end goal, Frankfurt kept pushing. Seferovic hit the post after playing a one-two with Rebic.
Dortmund were forced into two changes at the break: Christian Pulisic came on for the injured Marco Reus (right knee) and Gonzalo Castro replaced Marcel Schmelzer (left thigh).
Fabian rescued Frankfurt with a goal-line clearance from Aubameyang's overhead kick off Dembele's dinked cross.
But Aubameyang, who'd had a quiet game, cheekily scored the winner midway through the second half after Hradecky brought down Pulisic to concede the spot kick.
Frankfurt brought on "football god" Alexander Meier for a defender in response but he was unable to get the side out of the jam.
Source: AAP
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