Ilkay Gündogan opened the scoring for Dortmund against Johor Southern Tigers on Thursday
Ilkay Gündogan opened the scoring for Dortmund against Johor Southern Tigers on Thursday

Dortmund too good for Johor Southern Tigers

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Johor - Borussia Dortmund were comfortable 6-1 winners against Malaysian side Johor Southern Tigers in the second of their Bundesliga World Tour 2015 pre-season friendlies.

BVB procession

First-half goals from Ilkay Gündogan, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang and Kevin Kampl put BVB on the road to victory, with Shinji Kagawa and Jeremy Dudziak finishing the home side off after a consolation effort from former Dortmund trainee Gary Steven Robbat.

After dominating the opening exchanges at the Larkin Stadium, Ilkay Gündogan, fresh from signing a contract extension at the club, fired Borussia in front with a sweetly struck free-kick midway through the first half. Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, who bagged a brace in Monday’s friendly win against Kawasaki Frontale in Tokyo, then added a second from close range, before Kevin Kampl punished a goalkeeping error to make it 3-0.

The partisan home crowd had something to shout about just before half-time when Robbat, who trained with Dortmund's U-23 side back in the winter of 2014/15, calmly side-footed in to make it 3-1. Thomas Tuchel’s men reasserted themselves quickly, however, with Kagawa, Dudziak and Reus all finding the net to round off a successful pair of matches for the Schwarz-Gelben, who will wrap up their Asia tour on 11 July.