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Waldemar Anton opened the scoring for the Black and Yellows in the 44th minute, before Julian Niehues turned the match on its head with two quickfire goals (45+5′, 48′). But Dortmund responded immediately: Serhou Guirassy leveled from the penalty spot in the 68th minute, then netted the winner just a minute later (69′).<\/p>\n
After his missed Panenka, Guirassy announces a radical decision<\/p>\n
The major talking point of the match came in the closing minutes. Guirassy earned a second penalty and attempted a Panenka. The ball sailed over the crossbar, sparking surprise and controversy.<\/p>\n
At the final whistle, the Guinea international was clear at the media microphones: “I missed one. Penalties are over for me now.”<\/p>\n
For his part, coach Niko Kova\u010d made no secret of his frustration in the post-match press conference. He said the match context did not warrant such an attempt, implicitly reminding everyone that Emre Can is Borussia Dortmund’s first-choice penalty taker.<\/p>\n
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A few hours later, Guirassy posted an apology on X with the following message: “Alhamdulillah, we won. It wasn’t the right time to take that penalty like that and put the team under pressure. I’m sorry. Alhamdulillah, we won.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brace, missed Panenka and a bold decision: Guirassy’s wild night Guirassy \/ @x.com\/MediaBVB Borussia Dortmund claimed victory on…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":561730,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[45],"tags":[217,245296,8896,27128,245300,230209,245298,245294,245297,245295,221,62,67,132,68,245299],"class_list":["post-561729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-bayern-munich","tag-bold-decision","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-dortmund","tag-emre-can","tag-guirassy","tag-julian-niehues","tag-missed-panenka","tag-panenka","tag-radical-decision","tag-soccer","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-waldemar-anton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116003018071752453","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/561730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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