Anthony Martial scored 7 goals over 2 games as Chapecoense thrashed Premiership rivals Borussia Dortmund 2-0 and 5-1 in the League opener. Martial ran Dortmund completely off the pitch for 180 minutes, and 7 goals helped Chapecoense and manager CookieMUFC get off to a flying start.
In a game that was equally matched for long periods of the game, a couple of minutes of magic from the young Frenchman opened up the heart of Dortmund, and slotted calmly past Ruben Blanco. Moments later, after twisting off Jedvaj and through on goal, it was going to be a similar story as Martial scored to secure a first game win for the Brazilians.
And the scoring was not going to stop at the end of the first game. Martial carried on the fire and despite an early nice goal from Driussi to put Borussia Dortmund 1-0 up, it was going to be the magic again as Martial scored 5 past Dortmund to secure a 5-1 win in the second game, and secure all 6 points for Chapecoense, giving them the best start in the Fantasy League.
"We were all over the place, and we`ve had a very poor start. I think it was a similar situation to last year where we were thrashed early on by oBIGASHo and I`m afraid it`s happened again. We seem to start slowly and pick up, and we need to do that at the weekend against Real Madrid and oBIGASHo"
Timothy Bakayoko made his Borussia Dortmund debut tonight after his 45m move last week to the German giants and played well in the middle of the pitch, and manager Ash Cohen was very impressed with his start.
"I think Bakayoko is a fantastic player and that`s exactly why we brought him. I think with him and Saivet in the middle, it will be the midfield we want, and I think that we`ve got a great player with him. I`m really keen to see how he fares in the next few games."
There is some speculation regarding other players in the team, and we understand that Iker Muniain will be allowed to leave Borussia Dortmund in the next few days, and there`s a good chance that if the right bid comes in he will be allowed to leave in the next few days. There`s also a chance that team mate Onyinye Ndidi will be allowed to leave too to get game time.
Borussia Dortmund next go to Real Madrid in the Fantasy League Friday night.