Dortmund has strolled to a routine victory to start their Champions League campaign with a win.
However, The Germans were too good for Copenhagen, who never recovered from conceding to Reus and Guerreiro in the first half.
Later, Bellingham struck late to put a gloss on an impressive performance by him and his team.
Starting lineup:
BORUSSIA DORTMUND (4-2-3-1): Alexander Meyer;
Thomas Meunier, Niklas Sule, Nico Schlotterbeck, Raphael Guerreiro;
Salih Ozcan, Jude Bellingham; Julian Brandt, Marco Reus (c), Thorgan Hazard;
Anthony Modeste.
SUBS: Soumaula Coulibaly, Tom Rothe, Emre Can, Marius Wolf, Felix Passlack, Giovanni Reyna, Antonios Papadopoulos, Luca Unbehaun, Mats Hummels, Youssoufa Moukoko.
COPENHAGEN (4-2-3-1): Mat Ryan;
Kevin Diks, Davit Khocholava, Denis Vavro, Victor Bernth Kristansen;
Rasmus Falk Jensen, Lukas Lerager;
Mohammed Daramy, Zeca (c), Viktor Claesson; Andreas Cornelius.
SUBS: Nicolai Boilesen, Valdemar Lund Jensen, Ísak Bergmann Johannesson, Andreas Dithmer, Christian Sorensen, Mamoudou Karamoko, Paul Omo Mukairu, Hakon Arnar Haraldsson, Karl-Johan Johnsson, Roony Bardghji, Marko Stamenic, Elias Jelert Kristensen.
Goals:
GOAL! BORUSSIA DORTMUND 1-0 COPENHAGEN! It’s a beautiful goal by Reus! Sule drives forward with the ball and finds Brandt to his right. However, Brandt passes inside to Reus who takes a touch, drags the ball back inside, and fires into the bottom right corner.
GOAL! BORUSSIA DORTMUND 2-0 COPENHAGEN! Dortmund has cruised into a two-goal lead! Reus nods the ball forward for Guerreiro, who evades a challenge and finds Reyna to his left, luring Ryan off his line. Reyna returns it to the left-back, who slots it into the empty net.
GOAL! BORUSSIA DORTMUND 3-0 COPENHAGEN! Bellingham caps an outstanding performance by sealing the win for Dortmund! Reyna finds Bellingham’s burst into the box by squaring the ball for him, and the teenager side-foots it confidently into the net.
So, what’s next?
In conclusion, Dortmund gets off to a great start in this season’s Champions League.
If they play like this against City and Sevilla, there’s no reason they can’t make it into the last 16.
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