Reyna-Haaland connection rocks Freiburg
Borussia Dortmund's Giovanni Reyna and Erling Haaland combined correctly to greatly help crush Freiburg 4-0 on Saturday because they bounced back style from a disappointing week.
Reyna, the 17-year-old American, served up three assists in the lack of their top provider Jadon Sancho, sidelined with an infection.
Norwegian forward Haaland scored two of these goals either side of Emre Can's 47th minute header, to take his tally to 17 goals from 18 Bundesliga games this season.
Haaland then set up Felix Passlack because of their fourth in stoppage time.
It had been the first win in three games for the Ruhr valley club after last week's shock loss to Augsburg and Wednesday's defeat to Bayern Munich in the German Super Cup.
It took Dortmund half an hour to get started and they scored with their first chance when Haaland slotted in after Reyna had combined well with Marco Reus in the 31st minute.
They missed several more chances to score prior to the break but Can quickly made amends, drilling in a robust header in the 47th from a Reyna corner.
The 20-year-old Haaland then latched onto a flawless Reyna through ball to beat the Freiburg keeper Florian Mueller once more in the 66th, and he could have bagged a hat-trick in stoppage time with only Mueller to beat.
Instead he thought we would lay it off for Passlack for an easy tap-in.
Dortmund have six points from their three league games, with RB Leipzig at the top on seven following their 4-0 demolition of Schalke 04, who've now gone 19 consecutive league games without a win.
New Schalke coach Manuel Baum, who replaced David Wagner this week, could do nothing to avoid his team equalling the club's record winless run with a sixth consecutive league loss.
In their three league games this season Schalke have finally conceded 15 goals and scored one.
Leipzig killed the overall game off in the first half with three goals in 14 minutes. Marcel Halstenberg added a fourth with an 80th minute penalty.
Champions League club Borussia Moenchengladbach scored their first victory of the growing season, winning 3-1 win at Cologne with newly-selected Germany international Jonas Hofmann establishing the first two goals.
Champions Bayern Munich, who also lost last week, are on three and undertake Hertha Berlin on Sunday.
