First half goals from Donyell Malen, Jude Bellingham and Karim Adeyemi helped Borussia Dortmund begin their DFB Cup challenge with a comfortable first-round victory against 1860 Munich.

1860 Munich 0-3 Borussia Dortmund
Goals: 0-1 Malen 8', 0-2 Bellingham 31' (assist: Reus), 0-3 Adeyemi 35' (assist: Malen)

A little over a week away from their big Bundesliga kick-off against Bayer Leverkusen, Dortmund were hungry to hit the right notes at third-tier 1860 and they began life under returning coach Edin Terzic with three players making their competitive debuts in Black-and-Yellow. Niklas Süle and Nico Schlotterbeck formed a new central defensive pairing while Karim Adeyemi settled in in attack. It was schemer Malen who would prove tormenter in chief in an opening half which the visitors dominated, however. The Dutch trickster - a constant danger down the left - fired a fine opener that hit both posts before going in while he would later start the move that put BVB two goals up. With Malen freeing Marco Reus, the Dortmund captain slid the ball across the face of goal for Bellingham who tapped in. Soon afterwards, 1860 goalkeeper Marco Hiller allowed Adeyemi's speculative shot to slip underneath his body and Terzic's team were cruising.

Trailing by such a deficit, Michael Köllner's men had little chance of turning the tide and, a Yannick Deichmann volley wide of the upright, the hosts rarely threatened after the restart. The lively Youssoufa Moukoko hounded Hiller's goal before Raphael Guerreiro drew a superb two-handed stop from the under-siege custodian. Reus then almost took full advantage of a lapse in the home defence as BVB probed but his failure to increase his side's lead would ultimately matter little to a Dortmund side that took their place in the hat for the second round with relative ease. Next up, the Bundesliga, with Leverkusen set to visit Signal Iduna Park next weekend.

Match stats

• Bellingham has registered 11 goals and 18 assists in 91 appearances as a Dortmund player.
• After Haaland, Reus was Dortmund's top scorer in 2021/22 (13 goals). He also weighed in with a team-leading 19 assists.
• Dortmund knocked 1860 out of the DFB Cup in 1962/63, 1980/81 and 2013/14. They've now won 24 of their 47 competitive meetings to date (D9, L14).

Teams

1860: Hiller - Lannert (Lang 20'), Morgalla, Verlaat, Steinhart - Rieder, Tallig, Deichmann (Kobylanski 81'), Lex (c.) - Bär (Vrenezi 20'), Lakenmacher (Skenderovic 81')
Unused subs: Kretzschmar, Freitag, Glück, Moll, Wein
Out: Boyamba (abductor)
Coach: Michael Köllner

Dortmund: Kobel - Meunier (Wolf 76'), Süle (Hummels 46'), Schlotterbeck, Guerreiro - Bellingham, Dahoud (Can 83'), Reus (c.) - Malen (Bynoe-Gittens 66'), Moukoko, Adeyemi (Hazard 76')
Unused subs: Meyer, Coulibaly, Brandt, Kamara
Out: Haller (testicular tumour)
Coach: Edin Terzic

As it happened ...

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