Dortmund’s season is spiralling out of control after own goals on and off pitch | Andy Brassell Niko Kovac faces a tough task after BVB’s Waldemar Anton and Serhou Guirassy aided their former club Stuttgart.
The performance of Borussia Dortmund’s big summer purchase had already captured the defender’s time so far in Nord-Rhine Westphalia in microcosm, as his blind backpass led to former teammate Deniz Undav going one-on-one with Gregor Kobel Only a swift intervention from Emre Can preventing Anton’s error from leading to a Stuttgart goal.
Ten minutes later the ball dropped in Dortmund’s penalty area at the feet at Serhou Guirassy, who like Anton made a lucrative move from last season’s Bundesliga runners-up to BVB.
The striker had time to clear but took too long, was dispossessed and eventually Jamie Leweling found a pass for Jeff Chabot of all people – Anton’s replacement – to rattle in his first Stuttgart goal, which turned out to be the winner after Julian Brandt later pulled one back for the hosts.
If the move north had come with a hefty bump in pay and status for Anton, it has so far been far from a resounding success and in a game in which Stuttgart created little of substance, his next inadvertent intervention felt almost inevitable.
