In just 8 games with his former team, the German midfielder has five goals and five assists. There will be some apprehension among Foals fans when Dortmund face Gladbach on matchday 23, with Reus in contention for another start. to Hamburg.
It’s been a long road for the 28-year-old, who hadn’t played since tearing his cruciate ligaments in Dortmund’s DFB Cup final against Eintracht Frankfurt last May. However, he did not show any specific adverse effects on Saturday, creating four scoring opportunities. for his teammates and allowed Christian Pulisic to assist Michy Batshuayi for the first goal.
Watch: After 259 days of absence, Reus returns to face Hamburg
“Of course, I’m very happy to play again, to be back in the stadium and feel that feeling,” Reus told bundesliga. com, after BVB won 2-0 and claimed their 500th Bundesliga home win at HSV’s expense. “I’m satisfied that we were able to fix it all with a win. “
Reus and Dortmund have now set their sights on Gladbach, who will still bounce back from the 6-1 defeat at Signal Iduna Park in Borussia’s first match of the season on matchday six. Reus was absent that day, but the last time he faced his former Bundesliga club, in April 2017 he opened the scoring from a penalty in BVB’s 3-2 away win.
After spending a decade at Dortmund as a child, Reus rose to fame with second-tier side Rot Weiss Ahlen before joining Gladbach in 2009. Over the course of 3 seasons in the Bundesliga, he scored 36 goals and 26 assists for the Foals, earning him a high-profile return to his club in the summer of 2012.
See: The story of Marco Reus
He showed no mercy to his former team when they met at Signal Iduna Park in September, scoring his first brace for Dortmund in a 5-0 win. In total, Reus has been on the winning side of the Borussia war six times and in the last 4 Bundesliga meetings between both men, he has contributed to no less than 8 goals.
Reus has already shown in the afterlife that he is capable of giving the highest marks when he returns from injury. In November 2016, after a five-month absence with a groin problem, he scored a hat-trick and scored two more goals in BVB’s stunning 8-4 win over Legia Warsaw in the Nations League. Champions. However, the German star is keen to calm expectations, despite his impressive functionality against Hamburg.
“When you come back after 8 months away, you can’t expect to play your most productive match,” he said. “But in fact, I will remember the positive aspects of this one. We have to continue to stabilize as a team and take advantage of each of them. “every little step forward. “
After their clash with Atalanta in the UEFA Europa League, Dortmund’s next small hurdle will be the 100-kilometre trek to Borussia-Park on Sunday, where Reus will look to shine once back and claim seven wins out of nine against his former team. Gladbach is warned.
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