Borussia Dortmund 1-5 VfB Stuttgart: Lucien Favre’s side suffer shock thrashing

Borussia Dortmund embarrassingly lost 5-1 to an excellent VfB Stuttgart in their Bundesliga match at the Signal Iduna Park on Saturday afternoon.

The visitors’ strong start earned them a 26th-minute penalty when Emre Can felled Mateo Klimowicz and Silas Wamangituka sent keeper Roman Burki the wrong way with his spot kick. 

With Stuttgart pushing for a second goal, the hosts – without top striker Erling Haaland through injury – struck against the run of play.

Stuttgart forward Silas Wamangituka opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the first half

Borussia Dortmund’s 18-year-old midfielder Gio Reyna equalised six minutes before half time

But Congolese Wamagituka fired home from close range to give the visitors the lead again

Giovanni Reyna – son of former Manchester City midfielder Claudio – latched on to a pinpoint Raphael Guerreiro cross to chip the ball over the Stuttgart goalkeeper.

But a mistake by Guerreiro on the edge of the box in the 52nd minute sent forward Wamangituka, booked after walking the ball into the net against Werder Bremen last Sunday, through for his seventh goal of the campaign. 

Philipp Forster, in his second start for Stuttgart, made it 3-1 on the hour before teenager Tanguy Coulibaly added another goal three minutes later with Dortmund’s defence in complete disarray. 

Nicolas Gonzalez’ stoppage-time goal put the gloss on the victory for Pellegrino Matarazzo’s side.

Dortmund, who had been unbeaten in their last 11 home games against Stuttgart (W6, D5), have now lost three home matches in a row for the first time since 2013-14, under now-Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp’s tenure.

The result leaves Die Borussen in fifth, five points off leaders RB Leipzig and four off fierce title rivals Bayern Munich.

Stuttgart, meanwhile, whose head of sport is former Aston Villa and Germany midfielder Thomas…