“I’m knackered,” Robin Gosens told Sky. “But very, very happy.” What started out looking like the most forgiving, gentle induction into life together for him and Union Berlin didn’t turn out quite like that. It was something far more satisfying instead.
Gosens had waited a long time for this, his full Bundesliga debut, just like Union have spent a long while working themselves into this position. No longer the underdogs but the ogres, they ruthlessly crushed the hopes of Darmstadt in the promoted club’s first game at their Böllenfalltor home since arriving back in the big time. Union did what they have often done in the past year or so. They found themselves in a tough spot and decisively chopped their way out of the woods, in a manner not dissimilar to vintage Bayern Munich.
