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The completely unexpected defeat against 1. FC Köln without a win so far left BVB coach Lucien Favre speechless.
“Of course I am deeply disappointed. You lose at home to Cologne, but yes …” said Favre Sky and left the sentence unfinished with a shrug of the shoulders.
His team slid through the embarrassing 1: 2 (0: 1) loss against Cologne to third place in the table and, at times, fell into old patterns that were believed to have been overcome. Despite the oppressive superiority, the guests were satisfied with a corner variant that was almost exactly the same twice so as not to hijack three undeserved points. (Bundesliga match calendar)
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Cologne corners reveal BVB defensive problems
“That was a rehearsed standard situation that we actually looked at beforehand, but for some reason we couldn’t defend today,” goalkeeper Roman Bürki said at the ARD.
First, in the 9th minute, former Dortmund Marius Wolf extended a corner from Ondrej Duda on the short post to Ellyes Skhiri, who had stolen from behind Thomas Meunier and Emre Can and pushed easily from three meters. (The game to read on the ticker)
The copy was made in the 60th minute, with the only difference being that this time Skhiri escaped from Mats Hummels and Marco Reus and had time to catch the ball just before the goal line.
“Basically, of course, we play men’s tagging, and you have to be with your man,” explained Felix Passlack.
Favre, BVB coach: goals “naturally difficult to accept”
And Favre? “Of course we have to analyze that,” said the Swiss. Two of those goals are “of course difficult to accept.”
Dortmund’s susceptibility to standards is by no means new: Five of the season’s nine goals fell after the ball was idle.
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But even in the recently praised offense, things did not go well against Colonia. Like a week ago at 5: 2 against Hertha BSC, BVB was also 0: 1 behind Cologne at halftime. While the Erling Haaland scoring machine started the engine in the second 45 minutes in Berlin, the Norwegian didn’t really get going against Cologne.
Goalkeeper Haaland with no luck
Just seven ball contacts and just one shot on goal was his manageable record before the break. Although he improved in the second round like the whole team, his big missed opportunity to equalize in injury time when he failed to fully hit the ball within yards of the empty goal was a symbol of a failed afternoon in Dortmund.
“We lost our patience a little, sometimes we played in a hurry,” complained Favre, denouncing the lack of speed in the passing game. “We had very few concrete chances to score, sometimes we played too slow. There was no movement.”
The Cologne team ran almost nine kilometers more than the Dortmund team and was more toxic, especially in the final phase of the duels, even if BVB were just ahead of the game with 51 per cent of duels won.
The conclusion that with 65 percent possession and double shots on goal (14: 7) just a connecting goal by Thorgan Hazard is not enough for Dortmund’s claims.
Sancho discreet – Brandt and Reus seek form
The last convincing Jadon Sancho could not, save for a shot off the crossbar within minutes, not confirm his uptrend and squirmed far too often. Captain Marco Reus and Julian Brandt are also currently in their best form.
“He has great talent,” Favre said of Brandt, who gave way to the convincing Youssoufa Moukoko in the 67th minute. “He’s looking for his right position in the system. I think it wasn’t bad. It was my decision to switch. It wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad either. “
Favre did not want to put aside the fact that overall, the opponent was supposedly taken lightly after the last sovereign appearances against Hertha and in the Champions League against Club Brugge.
“We had respect,” said the BVB coach. “They just played well and we didn’t play that well. Just like that!”
Against Lazio Roma in the Champions League on Wednesday (Champions League: Borussia Dortmund v Lazio Roma, Wednesday 9pm on LIVETICKER) and at Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, BVB needs better performances again to score goals in the premier class and in the Bundesliga. so as not to endanger.
