Successful start in Wuppertal as U23s beat Duisburg

Borussia Dortmund's U23s have won the first of their three 3. Liga home games at the Stadion am Zoo in Wuppertal, beating MSV Duisburg 2-0 (1-0) in front of a crowd of 2,542 spectators. The win lifts the Black & Yellows out of the relegation zone.

Personnel matters: Head coach Christian Preusser made three changes to the starting XI that had drawn 0-0 in Halle six days earlier, bringing in Soumaila Coulibaly, Abdoulaye Kamara and Moritz Broschinski in place of Kolbeinn Finnsson, Bjarne Pudel and Ole Pohlmann. Preusser made adjustments to the back three too, with Franz Pfanne dropping back out of midfield into the right centre-back position - alongside Niklas Dams in the middle and Coulibaly over on the left.

The scenario: BVB II won both of their clashes with MSV last season. The Black & Yellows ultimately ran out clear 4-1 victors in the reverse fixture at Stadion Rote Erde, before winning 3-1 in Duisburg. MSV went into this latest meeting with 14 points on the board. Dortmund had nine points and sat second from bottom in the table, despite their recent three-game unbeaten run.

The match & analysis: Abdoulaye Kamara imposed himself on the game in the opening stages. The 17-year-old first made a goal-line intervention with goalkeeper Marcel Lotka beaten (8), then won the ball in midfield a short while later and threaded a pass through to Njinmah, who went clean through on goal but was denied by Duisburg shot-stopper Vincent Müller (18).

The MSV custodian also won the next battle with Dortmund's Njinmah: Guillermo Bueno played the ball to the striker, who surged into the penalty area and saw his placed effort from a tight angle kept out by Müller (26). The Black & Yellows then had a stroke of fortune: Franz Pfanne blocked a Duisburg cross with his right elbow, but the referee opted against awarding a penalty (32). BVB finally made the breakthrough on the stroke of half-time: Njinmah's header was initially blocked, however the striker followed up and squared the ball into the path of Moritz Broschinski, who fired home from 11 metres out to make it 1-0. It was the first time that Broschinski has found the net in a Black & Yellow jersey.

MSV had a great chance to level after the interval, but Aziz Bouhaddouz seemed to be taken by surprise when the ball landed at his feet after a corner. Lotka saved the shot from close range (56). BVB, meanwhile, fared better: Marco Pasalic played himself into the box via a one-two with Bueno and fired a sturdy shot into the roof of the net to all-but finish off the game at 2-0 (67).

BVB then comfortably saw their lead through against the harmless Zebras. Bueno even almost added a third, but his shot from the edge of the box narrowly flew over the crossbar (85). Another long-range shot from the Spaniard sailed wide of the upright (90).

First-time goalscorer Moritz Broschinski said: "That was a very hard-fought game. I'm very happy that I scored my first goal after two difficult years. It's a big weight off my shoulders. I've been working towards this for two years. It's indescribable."

U23s: Lotka - Coulibaly, Dams, Pfanne (Pudel, 46) - Bueno, Kamara (Suver, 84), Özkan, Pasalic (Pohlmann, 71) - Michel (Hober, 62) - Broschinski (Tattermusch, 71), Njinmah
Daniel Mertens