Gladbach Beat Stuttgart 3-2 for First Win of the Season
Borussia Monchengladbach ended a run of six straight league defeats with a 3-2 win at the MHP Arena on Friday, as 17 year old Wael Mohya set up one goal and scored another.
Key points
- Borussia Monchengladbach beat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 at the MHP Arena on Friday night.
- Stuttgart scored first and scored last, and still lost.
- Shuto Machino put Gladbach ahead in the 51st minute.
Borussia Monchengladbach beat VfB Stuttgart 3-2 at the MHP Arena on Friday night. It was their first win and their first points of the Bundesliga season, on Matchday 7, after six defeats in a row.
Stuttgart scored first and scored last, and still lost. Ermedin Demirovic put the home side ahead in the fifth minute. Joe Scally levelled for Gladbach in the 38th minute, and the teams went in at half time at 1-1.
A 17 year old turns the match
Shuto Machino put Gladbach ahead in the 51st minute. The goal was made by Wael Mohya, who is 17. Mohya beat two defenders and cut the ball back for Machino to finish.
Mohya then scored himself in the 66th minute to make it 3-1 to Gladbach. Get German Football News rated him player of the match. A teenager who creates one goal and then scores the next one, in a match his team needed to win, had done the main work of the night for Gladbach.
Stuttgart push back too late
Demirovic scored his second goal of the night in the 83rd minute to make it 3-2 and set up a close finish. Gladbach held on for the win. Stuttgart had held 70 percent of possession in the match, according to the match data reported by Bundesliga.com, but that possession did not turn into points.
Stuttgart coach Sebastian Hoeness had made six changes to his side after the midweek 1-1 draw with Atletico Madrid in the Champions League. The changes did not bring a league win. This was Stuttgart's fifth league defeat of the season.
What the result means
Gladbach move to three points, but they stay bottom of the Bundesliga table. The value of this result is not their position. It is that the losing run has stopped.
Had they lost again, Gladbach would have become the first team to lose seven straight games at the start of a Bundesliga campaign. That record now stays unclaimed, and the club can point to a win at last.
Stuttgart stay on six points in 14th place. For Gladbach, three points from seven games is still a poor start, and one win does not repair it. It does give them a result to build on, and it gives Mohya a night that supporters will remember for a long time.