Guirassy strikes in routine Dortmund win
Borussia Dortmund continued its unbeaten start to the Bundesliga season with a comfortable 2-0 win over 10-man Heidenheim.
Serhou Guirassy and Maximilian Beier both scored goals in the first half, sending Dortmund to the top of the early standings.
Dortmund started brightly, with Karim Adeyemi seeing a low strike parried by Diant Ramaj just 35 seconds in, before the goalkeeper smothered Guirassy's close-range poke.
Just moments after that 21st-minute attempt, Budu Zivzivadze was shown a straight red card for a very late tackle on Felix Nmecha.
Twelve minutes later, Guirassy found the breakthrough, planting a powerful header past Ramaj from Julian Ryerson's pinpoint cross.
On the stroke of half-time, Beier doubled the lead, guiding an easy tap-in into the net from Adeyemi's low lay-off under no pressure inside the box.
Heidenheim pushed after the break, with Arijon Ibrahimovic forcing Gregor Kobel into a stretching save from his curler, but there were no more goals in the game, with Guirassy twice thwarted by Ramaj at his near post late on.
