VfL Bochum remains victorious in its third competitive game of the U19 season. The team won against Dynamo Dresden in the cup ahead of next week’s top match.

VfL Bochum’s U19 team has advanced to the second round of the DFB Cup. Bochum won 4-0 against SG Dynamo Dresden on their home turf at the talent factory on Hiltroper Straße.

It was the third competitive game of the current season for VfL. David Siebers’ team won their opening game in the DFB Youth League 5-0 in the derby against Rot-Weiss Essen, before securing their first home win against Schott Mainz last week (3-0).

In the cup match against the Saxons, the young Bochum team started the game at a decent pace. Alessandro Crimaldi, who also scored the opening goal (5th minute), was particularly impressive. “We did exactly what we set out to do: put our foot on the gas from the start. And we got off to another good start with an early lead thanks to a great solo dribble by Alessandro Crimaldi, who was solid in two tackles and then finished superbly,” said VfL coach David Siebers.

Dresden couldn’t get out of their own half for a long time. Siebers nevertheless identified ten careless minutes from his team: “After that, I saw a team that continued at the same pace until around the 30th minute – unfortunately without increasing the score. I felt that it would have been necessary to calm the game down a bit. And then we had a slight lapse in concentration between the 30th and 40th minutes, during which we didn’t let the game slip away, but you could already tell that Dresden could have developed more.”

Similar to the game against Mainz, VfL led 2-0 at halftime and had a man advantage at the restart. “Luckily, we scored the second goal right at that stage. With the red card, it supposedly becomes easier. But we already know that from last week, when we were leading 2-0 at half-time and thought it would be even easier against ten men. That’s why it was important for us today to score again, even with an extra man. It took us a lot of attempts, but we didn’t just score one more, we scored a second,” explained Siebers. The Bochum U19s are back in league action next Sunday (August 24, 11 a.m.). Borussia Dortmund are waiting with the same number of points and goal difference (six points, 8-0 goals).