Thorgan Hazard came off the bench to strike twice and help Borussia Dortmund book their place in the last 16 of the DFB Cup in a 2-0 win over Bundesliga 2 side Ingolstadt on Tuesday.

Borussia Dortmund 2-0 Ingolstadt
Goals: 1-0 Hazard 72' (assist: Brandt), 2-0 Hazard 81' (assist: Brandt)

Marco Rose opted to make five changes from the side that defeated Arminia Bielefeld at the weekend, with Marco Reus, Hazard and Manuel Akanji all given a breather on the bench, while Erling Haaland remained absent through injury. The personnel changes made little difference to the cup holders’ superiority, however, and it was largely one-way traffic towards the Ingolstadt goal in the first half, with the hosts enjoying 76 per cent of possession and having seven shots to their guests’ three by the interval. Nevertheless, the teams were level at the break, with a Jude Bellingham effort that rattled the crossbar as close as they came, before Mats Hummels had a goal disallowed for a foul in the build-up by Emre Can.

There was more of the same in the second half, with Stefan Tigges hitting the crossbar with a diving header and Bellingham heading narrowly wide of the target as the home side’s pressure built to a crescendo. The introductions of Reus and Hazard off the bench for the final 20 minutes proved the tipping point, and the latter broke the deadlock within seconds of entering the pitch when he applied a close-range finish to Julian Brandt’s ball across the face of goal. The same duo combined to end the game as a contest less then 10 minutes later, with Brandt floating a cross from the right to the back post and Hazard ghosting into the six-yard box to volley home and rubberstamp Dortmund's place in the next round.

Match stats

• Haaland has scored 13 of Dortmund’s 34 competitive goals in 2021/22, including all three against Wiesbaden in the first round.
• Bellingham became the youngest goalscorer in DFB Cup history in last season’s first round, aged 17 years, two months and 16 days. It was his first of six goals in 60 competitive games for BVB. He beat Gio Reyna’s record by six days.
• BVB won their fifth DFB Cup last season. They have not been eliminated by lower-league opposition since losing a penalty shoot-out to Kickers Offenbach in the 2010/11 second round.
• Fabian Buntic has conceded a league-high 25 goals so far this Bundesliga 2 season, but ranks fourth for saves made (36).
• Filip Bilbija, Kaya and Stefan Kutschke have each scored a team-leading two goals so far this season in the league.
• Ingolstadt have never beaten Dortmund in competitive fare (D1, L4).

Line-ups:

Dortmund: Hitz - Meunier (Hazard 71'), Pongracic, Hummels (c) (Akanji 83'), Can - Bellingham, Witsel, Brandt (Passlack 87') - Wolf (Knauff 87'), Tigges (Reus 71'), Reinier
Unused subs: Unbehaun, Pherai, Maloney, Papadopoulos
Out: Dahoud (knee), Guerreiro (muscular), Haaland (hip), Kobel (thigh), Malen (ill), Morey (knee), Moukoko (muscular), Reyna (thigh), Schmelzer (knee)
Coach: Marco Rose

Ingolstadt: Buntic - Antonitsch, Röseler, Keller - Heinloth, Röhl, Preissinger, Linsmayer (Neuberger 81'), Gaus (c) - Stendera (Kutschke 81') - Kaya (Bilbija 71')
Unused subs: Jendrusch, Franke, Beister, Kotzke, Hawkins, Cavadias
Out: Ben Balla (hip), Boujellab (muscular), Eckert (collarbone), Elva (knee), Gebauer (muscular), Marx (ankle), Schmidt (wrist), Schröck (groin)
Coach: Andre Schubert

As it happened!

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