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Patience is one of Lucien Favre’s favorite words. The Borussia Dortmund coach encourages his players time and time again to use the full 90 minutes with an unimpressed game. They like to do that too. They only scored 18 of the 21 goals this season in the second half, including Saturday’s against 1. FC Köln. But this time it was not enough. Increasing patience is goal panic, and it took hold of BVB as their 1. FC Köln opponent, who had been winless in 18 Bundesliga games in Dortmund, took a 2-0 lead in the 60th minute. In the end, Borussia broke in for almost half an hour with all their child prodigies Erling Haaland, Jadon Sancho, Giovanni Reyna and Youssoufa Moukoko, but apart from Thorgan Hazard’s connecting goal (74th) they failed to do so. After this 1: 2 (0: 1) loss to the Basement Children’s Cologne, a new debate will begin in Dortmund about mindset, title preparation and coach Favre. However, they had just returned to the right path. “I am deeply disappointed,” Favre said.
The Cologne team, on the other hand, experienced relief at the final whistle after a harrowing five minutes of injury time that should have felt like a pressure wave at Dortmund. Coach Markus Gisdol, out of sheer joy, didn’t know what to do with his energy and simply pushed the Kingsley Ehizibue in front of him with enthusiasm. However, the latter did not reproach him at all. Interestingly, the two goals with which the Rhineland outsiders defeated the Westphalian favorites were completely identical: Corner: Ondrej Duda, header extension at the first post: Marius Wolf, on loan from BVB Cologne, goal at the far post by Ellyes Skhiri – once in the 9th and then in the 60th minute.
For the second time free at the far post: Ellyes Skhiri makes it 2-0.
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The Cologne team made a convincing and playful plea for the thesis that no statistics, however bad, should dissuade you from doing your best. After eight and a half months without winning the Bundesliga and knowing that 1. FC Köln had not won in Dortmund since 1991, they went ahead 2-0 in an hour. The Cologne team showed very good pressure and repeatedly came dangerously close to goal when they had possession. For Dortmund, Jadon Sancho hit the crossbar once, Haaland missed his only two chances and a header from Mats Hummels was denied for offside, Cologne didn’t have to worry. “Winning in our seemingly overwhelming situation against Dortmunders is a sensation,” said goalkeeper Timo Horn. With a brilliant parade against Mats Hummels (87th), he had contributed to the surprise.
In center forward Sebastian Andersson and central defender Jorge Meré, two regular players were injured in Cologne on short notice. The 19-year-old Sava-Arangel Cestic thus celebrated their Bundesliga debut on the five-man chain and were not fooled by either Haaland (23 goals in 23 Bundesliga games) or Moukoko. “It was good,” said his coach Gisdol with a smile at the press conference and asked reporters not to charge Cestic with “superlatives.” “But when a Swabian like me says ‘good’ it sometimes means a little more,” joked Gisdol.
Gisdol is happy: “A start has been made.”
The Cologne coach seemed thrilled when he reported that he had thanked each member of his team individually “for their selfless work in difficult weeks.” The end of the series of failures is “important to the mind.” With this victory “a departure has been made, the team will continue to stabilize.” And then he looked back briefly: We got a tremendous amount of support from the fans, from the true fans who love the club, love the team and have supported it. We’re always sorry, it’s also a small thank you. “
Favre, however, appeared dejected at the press conference. “Two goals conceded in this way, it is difficult to accept.” However, he defended his team in terms of his attitude: “They respected Colonia, they didn’t take it lightly, but they played too slow, with very little movement, they just didn’t play well today.” However, Favre did not think that this time they might have overstated their often touted patience. “We have lost patience a bit,” said the Swiss even about the phase after conceding the goal to make it 2-0. “We played too hastily.”
