Bottom-placed Borussia Mönchengladbach roared back from behind to beat Stuttgart 3-2 and finally open their Bundesliga account at the seventh try.
The wait is over at Borussia Mönchengladbach. The Bundesliga's bottom side came from behind to beat Stuttgart 3-2 in a five-goal thriller, finally getting their first league win of the season at the seventh attempt.
Gladbach had to show real resolve to get there. Trailing in a game they could not afford to lose, they refused to let another disappointing night play out and turned the contest around on the road. For a club that had started the campaign so poorly, the comeback mattered as much as the three points.
Stuttgart, for their part, played their role in a lively contest. The two sides traded blows, and the game stayed open and unpredictable until the end. The hosts will be frustrated to have let a game like this slip, but the result belongs to a Gladbach team that kept pushing.
The win will not erase a difficult start, and the Foals are still in the basement. But after six games without a victory, this was the kind of performance that can change the mood around a squad. The next step is proving it was the start of a turnaround and not a one-off.
