Dodi Lukebakio sends Fortuna into 'pure ecstasy' against brittle Bayern | Andy Brassell

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Struggling Düsseldorf side’s players and fans came together to celebrate an improbable point and an ‘unbelievable’ hat-trick

The 8,000 Fortuna Düsseldorf supporters had made the long, 620km trip south mostly not even in hope, let alone expectation. It was more a sense of “I was there”, as with the Granada fans who took over the Bernabéu in 2012 for their team’s first trip to Real Madrid since 1976. Bayern Munich may have had their challenges this season, but Bayern away is still Bayern away. With this being only Fortuna’s second top-flight season in the last 21 years - and they spent 10 of those campaigns below even the second tier – what other way was there of seeing it?

By 5.25pm seeing was one thing and believing was another for those travelling Fortuna fans. They had been loud all afternoon, in sharp contrast to the majority of a half-interested, 75,000-capacity-but-not-really-full Allianz Arena, the locals sleepwalking through routine as their side have done for much of the campaign so far.

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from Football | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/nov/26/dodi-lukebakio-sends-fortuna-into-pure-ecstasy-against-brittle-bayern

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