{"id":428320,"date":"2023-03-03T18:46:17","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T23:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=428320"},"modified":"2023-03-04T06:00:15","modified_gmt":"2023-03-04T11:00:15","slug":"confident-dortmund-edge-past-leipzig-2-1-to-go-top-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/confident-dortmund-edge-past-leipzig-2-1-to-go-top-in-germany\/","title":{"rendered":"Confident Dortmund edge past Leipzig 2-1 to go top in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Reus and Emre Can scored in the first half as Borussia Dortmund beat RB Leipzig 2-1 on Friday to climb to the top of the Bundesliga and stretch their perfect run in 2023 to eighth straight league wins.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"tl\" dir=\"ltr\">Shalalalala \ud83c\udfb6 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BiAmvJ7Ij6\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/BiAmvJ7Ij6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Borussia Dortmund (@BlackYellow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BlackYellow\/status\/1631779165455228933?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Dortmund, who equal their club record of eight straight Bundesliga victories within a season during their 2011-12 championship season, are now on 49 points, three points clear of second-placed Bayern Munich.<\/p>\n<p>The Bavarians are in action against VfB Stuttgart on Saturday while Leipzig&#8217;s second defeat in four league games sees them stuck in fourth place on 42.<\/p>\n<p>A Reus penalty and a deflected shot from former Liverpool midfielder Can put the Ruhr valley club in the driving seat before Leipzig pulled a goal back through Emil Forsberg late in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>\u0422he home side were brutally efficient, scoring twice with just three shots on goal in the entire game.<\/p>\n<p>The Germans travel to Chelsea on Tuesday for their Champions League last 16 second leg leading 1-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marco Reus and Emre Can scored in the first half as Borussia Dortmund beat RB Leipzig 2-1 on Friday to climb to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":428321,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16746,16803,16774,17709,17941],"news_category":[139],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The Ruhr valley club stretch their perfect run in 2023 to eighth straight league wins","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428320"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/428320\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/428321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428320"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=428320"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=428320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}