News summary
An ambulance was waiting in the tunnel for Ramy Bensebaini. Waldemar Anton's knee had caught him in the chest earlier in the second half.
Dortmund sent Bensebaini to the Knappschaftskrankenhaus for checks as soon as the whistle went. No diagnosis yet.
Niko Kovac was out of substitutions. Bensebaini stayed on, then lunged at Ismael Saibari in the 90th and Daniel Schlager showed the Algerian a red card.
The DFB sports court has yet to fix how many games the automatic Pokal ban covers.
Bensebaini could now miss the Hamburg opener, whether through the ban or the chest injury. Filippo Mane or Luca Reggiani would most probably deputise.
Nico Schlotterbeck has been missing from that back three all summer and Emre Can is not fit yet.
"Then I believe it won't take much longer," Schlotterbeck said of his comeback in an update on Sunday. His ankle ligaments went out at the World Cup in June.
Anton was back in the XI after two preseason games off for workload management. "In the first half, we made mistakes that were far too easy to avoid," he said after the game.
Bensebaini's loose clearance fell to Nathaniel Brown, who slotted it home for Bayern's opener after 28 minutes.
Then Jobe Bellingham misplaced a pass just before the break; Michael Olise took it off him and rolled the second past Gregor Kobel.
Fabio Silva pulled one back with fifteen minutes of the match left, firing emphatically past Manuel Neuer.
Anton found Maximilian Beier in stoppage time, six yards out, and Beier skied it with Neur beaten in the Bayern goal.
Kobel watched Beier's miss from the far end. "We'll keep getting stronger," the Dortmund keeper said on Sunday.
Much of this squad has barely played together, and Giannis Konstantelias has barely trained with them at all. Kovac sent him on anyway and the second half changed shape.
He carried into the left half-space, dragged two defenders across and slipped Daniel Svensson in for the cross, which Silva turned home. The Sudtribune showed their appreciation for Konstantelias' opening touches.
Joey Veerman got his first competitive minutes too, on for Felix Nmecha in the 63rd.
"It's special to play for Dortmund," Veerman told reporters afterwards. He signed from PSV last Tuesday.
Carsten Cramer spent part of Sunday selling the idea of a Dortmund trip to India.
"You didn't invite me yet. If you would send me an invitation, I would seriously consider to come to India," Cramer joked to Indian media.
Transfer news
Dortmund have sent negotiators to Barcelona to get the Hector Fort deal finished.
Fort has turned down other clubs to force this one through.
Barcelona want €15m to €20m, though the structure under discussion starts around €10m.
A second version on the table gives Barcelona a slice of any resale plus a buyback that could climb towards fifty million.
Fort would land straight in a fight with Julian Ryerson for the right-back shirt. Behind Ryerson, BVB have next to nothing.
Fabio Silva scored and would not promise to stay.
"That is now not the most important. I don't know what will happen," Silva said in the mixed zone.
Silva turned 24 last month.
He managed two goals and six assists in last season's Bundesliga.
Lars Ricken and Ole Book would listen if someone bid near 20 million euros for Silva.
Betis Sevilla are supposed to have met with Silva. Then they went and signed Troy Parrott.
"I want to play more games from the start and help the team. I want to be more important," Silva said.
BVB Buzz opinion
One training session. That was all Giannis Konstantelias had before a cup final against Bayern Munich.
Fan reaction on X was not restrained. "We got 17 minutes of Konstantelias and Karetsas on the field today. It's hard to put into words HOW promising this looks," one supporter wrote.
Neither Konstantelias nor Konstantinos Karetsas has had a proper week at Brackel. Karetsas is 18.
Kovac's back three is already without Schlotterbeck and Emre Can, and Bensebaini's hospital trip could make it three missing for Hamburg.
That would leave two teenagers as cover on Saturday.
Fort would not fix the middle of that defence, but signing him stops the full-back positions turning into the next hole.
Five years have passed without a trophy. Saturday's second half was still better evidence that things could change soon.
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