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Dortmund beats Mainz 4-2 in German Bundesliga

Xinhua, February 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Dortmund came from behind to overcome Mainz 4-2 with four second-half goals at the opener of the 21st round of Bundesliga on Friday.

Juergen Klopp's men earned their second straight victory to relieve their relegation worries for the moment. Mainz grabbed the lead but were unable to hold the pace with the "BVB" after the restart.

Both sides staged an offensively minded and fast paced encounter, in which Mainz shocked the hosts with the opener with less than a minute into the game. Dortmund's goalkeeper Roman Weidenfeller made a fisted clearance into the path of Elkin Soto, who lobbed the ball into the open goal from 18 meters.

Dortmund piled on the pressure but Mainz' well-positioned defense denied the equalizer within the first half. However, things changed after the break when Neven Subotic restored parity with a header following a corner by Marcel Schmelzer at the 50th minute.

Mainz were shocked and conceded another goal only five minutes later as Dortmund turned the tides through Marco Reus, who capitalized on a through ball by new arrival Kevin Kampl.

The visitors shook off the 2-1 deficit and equalized the scores with their next chance as Yunus Malli made it two all draw with a hammer at the 57th minute.

Nevertheless, Mainz were unable to hold the pace with Dortmund as the host turned up to grab the 3-2 lead at the 71st minute when Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang marked his 8th goal of the season following a pass into path by Reus.

The "BVB" rounded off their performance with the fourth goal of the second half. Nuri Sahin made use of Aubameyang's defused dead ball on target to poke home from very close range to make it 4-2 on the scoreboards.

With the second win in row Dortmund climbed from 16th to 14th position meanwhile Mainz stays on 13th place of the table.

The following fixtures are scheduled on Saturday: front-runners Bayern Munich host Hamburg, Leverkusen face runner up Wolfsburg, Monchengladbach meet Cologne, Hoffenheim see last placed Stuttgart, Bremen clash Augsburg and Frankfurt encounter third placed Schalke. Endi