Isak stars as BVB bounces back
Alexander Isak helped Borussia Dortmund forget its DFL-Supercup heartbreak by hitting four eye-catching goals in a 5-2 friendly win over Rot-Weiss Erfurt.
The Swedish 17 year-old enhanced his growing reputation with a fine display that began by cancelling out Erfurt's shock early opener, before bagging a second-half hat-trick to sew up a hard-earned victory.
The friendly came less than 24 hours after Dortmund's penalty shootout defeat to Bayern Munich and Peter Bosz started only three players - Mahmoud Dahoud, Felix Passlack and Maximilian Philipp - from that match.
Dortmund's disappointment deepened when Lion Lauberbach handed the third-tier host a 12th-minute lead, but Isak and Jan-Niklas Beste quickly overturned the deficit.
Isak - who has been dubbed the 'new Zlatan Ibrahimovic' - added two more classy finishes after Elias Huth's equaliser and capped his haul with a fourth just before full-time.
The Bundesliga side now looks ahead to its opening fixture away to Wolfsburg on 19 August as it aims to improve on last season's third-place finish.