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Bayer Leverkusen have knocked Borussia Dortmund out in the last 16 of the German Cup, Ibrahim Maza scoring the only goal in a 1-0 away win on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maza’s 34th-minute strike put the 2024 cup winners on track for victory<\/strong> and take out instant revenge on Dortmund<\/a>, who beat them 2-1<\/strong> in their own backyard in the Bundesliga three days ago. Leverkusen will be joined in the quarter-finals by RB Leipzig, who beat Magdeburg 3-1 at home, along with Hertha Berlin and St Pauli, who won earlier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bundesliga heavyweights Dortmund and Leverkusen had met 109 times in all competitions dating back to the early 1950s but had never faced off in the German Cup<\/strong>. Dortmund had an early penalty shout waved away when former Liverpool defender Jarell Quansah felled Carney Chukwuemeka inside the box.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A goalscorer in Leverkusen’s shock 2-0 Champions League win at Manchester City, the 20-year-old Maza danced through some sleepy Dortmund defence<\/strong> to blast his side in front. Leverkusen<\/a> scored again on the hour mark through Martin Terrier in a move started by Maza, but the goal was chalked off for a narrow offside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dortmund’s Karim Adeyemi had a chance to level deep into stoppage time, but he headed inches wide of the post. Elsewhere, Christoph Baumgartner scored twice <\/strong>as RB Leipzig came from a goal down to beat lowly Magdeburg. Magdeburg, sitting dead last in the second division, took an early lead through a Silas Gnaka penalty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leipzig hit back with a long-range rocket from Antonio Nusa and led 2-1 at halftime after Baumgartner scored. Assisted by Nusa, Baumgartner scored again<\/strong> early in the second-half to see the two-time cup winners through. Earlier on Tuesday, St Pauli broke out of their recent Bundesliga funk to win 2-1 at three-time winners Borussia Moenchengladbach.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pauli had lost their last nine league matches but goals from Martijn Kaars and Louis Oppie either side of a header from Gladbach’s Haris Tabakovic had the Hamburg-based side marching into the final eight. In the German capital, Hertha Berlin thumped 2024 finalists Kaiserslautern 6-1<\/strong>, with 16-year-old Kennet Eichhorn becoming the youngest goalscorer in the competition’s history. Bayern Munich, winners a record 20 times, play at Union Berlin on Wednesday while holders Stuttgart are away at Bochum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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