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A close match, then added time. A solo toward the south stand, door. 2-0, three points for Borussia. It was a debut that Edin Terzić could have imagined with more glory, because the south stand was empty, as was the rest of the stadium. Still, Terzić was “completely satisfied”, as he later put it. Because the rest fit. Jadon Sancho rushed to the south stand in injury time and scored the 2-0 win over VfL Wolfsburg with his first goal of the season. It was a triumph against a team that also has the goal and what it takes to qualify for the Champions League.
Edin Terzić has been tasked with leading BVB as head coach in this elite league since mid-December. The start was regular, a 2: 1 at Werder Bremen was followed by a 1: 2 at Union Berlin. Since they had previously missed three home games with Lucien Favre, much depended on Terzić’s debut in his own stadium.
He wanted to see the team with more courage than under his former boss, who also had to hesitate because of his slope. For a long time, the only brave thing that could be done against Wolfsburg was to try to find a fun solution to the aggressive pressure. Most of the time, goalkeeper Roman Bürki hit the ball forward. The pressure itself was wavering as well, although with Erling Haaland he was again the type who can instill a bit of fear in the opponent with his gasping, weary steps. The other players held back, even as Edin Terzić happily stood on the edge, clapped his hands and yelled “pressure, pressure, pressure.”
The will of the coach and the will of the team have yet to come together. BVB’s game was a bit slow even against VfL Wolfsburg in longer phases.
In all post-Christmas training sessions, journalists were excluded with the notice that time was short and that Terzić wanted to work tactically. Surely it will have done it too, but the BVB in January 2021 was still December 2020 and many months before.
“It is still a lot of hard work at the moment. The lightness is not there yet, “Marco Reus said on Sunday night and hoped,” that we will be better at fluency for the next matches. “
Reus, 31, and his coach are only seven years old, and that too should have been the hope of those responsible when they appointed Terzić as their boss. The man who gets along better with the language of youth, his music and his clothing than Favre, who is imaged as knowing only football and occasionally drinking red wine as he continues his education.
Terzić has enough traits to distinguish him from his predecessor that he wanted or had to emphasize them. His appearance at press conferences is cautious, his work on the sidelines is limited.
It’s also about your own work
Edin Terzić won three points against Wolfsburg, but mostly on time. January, when the game at RB Leipzig and then the meetings in Leverkusen and Mönchengladbach await you next Saturday, it will be exciting enough. Gladbach with Marco Rose, considered the favorite to succeed Terzić. He had been a head coach for a few hours when the reports were posted online.
However, according to information from SPIEGEL, they are anything but crazy or even inventions; Marco Rose enjoys a very high reputation among the bosses of Westphalian Borussia. He would be a candidate, a very hot one, but only in case Terzić had modest or even less success.
A sovereign qualification for the Champions League with a significant increase in the attractiveness of football would give Terzić a good chance to remain a coach at BVB beyond the summer. And sometime to celebrate a victory in front of a crowded south stand.
