DÜSSELDORF – The raucous home support was silent and the Yellow Wall was invisible, all because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Despite the vastly different atmosphere in the stands, the result on the field followed a familiar pattern. Borussia Dortmund, which has finished in second place for the last three years, played its quietest ever Bundesliga game against seven-time defending champion Bayern Munich on Tuesday and lost 1-0 in an empty stadium.
The Bavarian club, which won after a perfectly weighted lob from Joshua Kimmich, now leads Dortmund by seven points. “Seven points, six games.
It’s brutally hard,” Dortmund coach Lucien Favre said. Dortmund last won the Bundesliga title in 2012 and on Tuesday failed to score against Bayern for the