October / Octubre
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I had promised the players a treat due to a brilliant start this season and we have come flying out of the blocks, I took us all to a famous hotel owned by 3-star Michelen chefs called La Magra. I told the team the bill was on me as a treat and a time for them to get some team-mates who they don't really speak to a little more as we are one big family at Dortmund and we win together and we lose together. Now we focus on our next match.
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Champions League Group Stage
Wednesday 3rd October 2018
Signal Iduna Park
Dortmund 4 - 0
Vaslui
Rausch, Subotic, Klein (2)
MOTM: Marco Rausch
YES! This is what we need to do, be more dominant in Europe and have teams to fear us instead of just rolling up tight affairs. Vaslui looks terrified from the first minute to the last. We played them off the pitch and most of them will be wish they didn't get off the coach.
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Bundesliga
Saturday 6th October 2018
Borussia-Park
Gladbach 0 - 4
Dortmund
Iglesias, Goretzka, Perrin(2)
MOTM: Flavien Perrin
Put our rivals to the sword and embarrassed them infront of their home crowd. Everyone in the league is worrying that we are going to give them a pasting as we have already scored 25 goals in only 7 games. We are working as a team and putting in brilliant performances.
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Bundesliga
Saturday 20th October 2018
Signal Iduna Park
Dortmund 1 - 0
Stuttgart
Iglesias
MOTM: Kurt Zouma
Stuttgart want to thank their keeper first and foremost for the best performance from a goalkeeper I have ever seen. His triple save from one of our plays was unbelievable. He just got up within a second of every shot and they ought to thank him for his efforts as the game could have been alot better for us if he wasn't on form
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Champions League Group Stages
Wednesday 24th October 2018
Signal Iduna Park
Dortmund 4 - 0
Celtic
Sohnlein (2), Perrin, Iglesias
MOTM: Harald Sohnlein
Yet another dominant performance in Europe, if we can keep these up this year we are in with a very very good chance of being up there this season. We absolutely destroyed Celtic and they are meant to be Champions of a country? Really?
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Bundesliga
Saturday 27th October 2018
Volkswagen Arena
Wolfsburg 0 - 1
Dortmund
Iglesias
MOTM: Flavien Perrin
A short and sweet win and we will take them. We struggled at Wolfsburg last year and so it proves as they gave us a well battled game again today. They are a well organised side which are hard to break down and with the right additions they could be up there challenging.
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German Cup Second Round
Wednesday 31st October 2018
Stadion An der Alten Forsterei
Union Berlin 0 - 4
Dortmund
Perrin, Gundogan, Vela, Sohnlein
MOTM: Flavien Perrin
We can never take the German Cup lightly as we know what can happen against lower opponents. We got knocked out by Union Berlin a few years back and it was a massive shock to everybody and I don't want a repeat process of it happening again. Carlos Vela was given his chance today and on his debut scored a wonderful freekick.
German Cup Third Round Draw:
Nurnberg v
Dortmund
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Player of the month
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Flavien Perrin
The regen has been a rock at the back and ensured we keep clean sheets.
League Table
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England
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Friendly
Friday 12th October 2018
Wembley
England 0 - 0
Brazil
MOTM: Chris Smalling
A good result against a tricky Brazil side. They are filled with skillful players with lots of flair and dribbling ability. What they seemed to lack was a leader in the team it was like they all had a free role in the game. A stable result again the 5 time winning World Cup team.
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European Championship Qualifying Group
Tuesday 16th October 2018
Wembley
England 1 - 1
Bulgaria
C.Dawson
MOTM: Craig Dawson
Terrible result for us. We should of nailed them and we was doing fine till an individual mistake by Theo Walcott trying to dribble past people inside his own half made Bulgaria shut up shop and play for the draw and subsequently they parked the bus and we couldn't get out of it.
Your time as Real Madrid manager will most certainly come in good time.
