In the early morning of January 19, Beijing time, this season's German Cup began a 1/8 final competition, the defending champion Borussia Dortmund visited to challenge the Bundesliga team St. Pauli, but the Hornets performed sluggishly and in a very bad state, and finally lost 1:2 unexpectedly and was eliminated, without the opportunity to defend the title in the competition, and the team also continued the poor away record this season. Dortmund, which has collapsed on multiple lines this season, is also likely to suffer a season in which all four are empty.
In this campaign, Dortmund is still the main player, except for the recent absence of Dahoud, who is in good form due to minor injuries, the rest of the players are all in the big list. However, the opponent St. Pauli is currently at the top of the Bundesliga table, so the strength should not be underestimated, and the game just started 3 minutes, the home team completed the blitz, made a dream start, in the 39th minute, a cross of the St. Pauli team was shoveled into its own door by Witsel, Dortmund fell behind by two goals, in the second half of the game, the handball in the opponent's penalty area gave Dort a penalty opportunity, Haaland took a kick to narrow the point difference, but after that, the Hornets did not complete the effective attack, and finally despite the advantage of all aspects, it still lost the game.
The state of the Dortmund players in this game is extremely worrying, which is the root cause of their final loss, especially Witsel, the Belgian midfielder's state this season has continued to be sluggish, captain Reus and center-back Akanji also scored low after the game, as for Haaland, who is currently caught in the transfer rumors, although he scored a goal in this campaign, the overall performance also made the fans very dissatisfied, and most Dortmund fans believe that this is Haaland's attitude problem, because he has not been sure of his future, There is also discord between the team and the team, and it is certain that if Haaland continues like this, he is doomed to not be treated by Hornets fans again.
After the loss, Borussia Dortmund set a number of records, because Bayern had already defeated Borussia Borussia Monchengand in the last round, so this is the first time since the 06/07 season that Bayern and Dortmund have missed the finals of the German Cup at the same time; and this is also the first time since 2011 that there will be no Bayern or Dortmund in the final of the German Cup; in addition, Dortmund has lost to St. Pauli for the first time in 33 years, the last time was in 1989. With the promotion of Germany's established teams Hamburg and St. Pauli in this round, this is the third time in history that two teams from Hamburg have reached the quarterfinals of the German Cup at the same time.
With Borussia Dortmund's surprise exit, there are still a few teams with the ability to win the title in the German Cup this season, such as Leipzig, Borussia Moncheng and Hoffenheim. While the Hornets missed the defending domestic cup, it is also possible to suffer another blow in the league, the team will continue to play against strong opponents such as Homura and Bayer Leverkusen, and in the strong Europa League arena, Dort has a lot of difficulties to win, so the next few games will directly determine whether Dortmund can suffer the fate of the four major voids this season.