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mes is the Bundesliga hammer of the weekend. Borussia Dortmund parted ways with Lucien Favre less than 24 hours after the 1: 5 debacle against newly promoted Stuttgart. The team was informed of this during training this afternoon.
“I think it is a shame that we part here. We have had two very successful years and we have a team that would also have played a successful season this year. I’m still convinced of that, ”he said. Favre.
The Swiss (contract until 2021) had been in office for two years, now he has to go after 896 days and two runner-up championships (2019, 2020). His BVB record: 110 games, 68 wins, 17 draws, 25 losses. The last three home games (Bayern, Cologne, Stuttgart) were lost. Due to the bankruptcy against VfB, BVB has slipped to fifth place in the league.
“We are all grateful to Lucien Favre for his excellent work during the last two and a half years, in which he and his team won two runner-up championships. As a professional and as a person, Lucien Favre is beyond question, ”said Hans-Joachim Watzke, head of BVB.
Favre’s former assistant coach, Edin Terzic, will take care of the team against Werder Bremen next Tuesday (8:30 p.m., on the WELT sports ticker). The club also announced that the 38-year-old will take office until the end of the season.
“It is difficult for us to take this step. However, we are of the opinion that achieving our goals for the season is at great risk due to the recent negative developments in the current constellation and that we must therefore act, ”says sporting director Michael Zorc.
The processing of the disaster had already started immediately after the final whistle on Saturday night. Watzke, Zorc and consultant Matthias Sammer spoke in a box in the “Stammtisch” at Signal Iduna Park. When they left the stadium one after another at 7:31 pm, they didn’t want to say anything not one bit.
“If you lose 5-1 at home, it’s a black day. I thought about the last time I was this high, ”Watzke explained. It really wasn’t that clear-cut defeat at home long ago: On June 27, BVB lost 4-0 at home to Hoffenheim. In any case, according to the managing director, “it doesn’t feel right.”
It hasn’t been going well at BVB for a long time
When asked if the team’s shameful behavior would have consequences, for example regarding Favre, Watzke replied: “We have to analyze it.” He could also have said: We have to reconsider whether the plan we had can continue to apply in this way as well. The club’s management would have loved to continue working with Favre at least until the end of the contract in the summer to buy more time and find a successor.
But the game, which should have been decided in favor of the furious, but by no means unexpectedly strong, Stuttgart team at halftime, had raised questions: How could that happen? Did this embarrassing lack of acting have anything to do with the coach? And above all: what conclusions should be drawn from this? The bosses have now come to the conclusion that the rope must be pulled.
The fact is, the runner-up hasn’t been doing so well for a long time. It was the fourth loss of the season, the third at home. In recent weeks, Favre’s team did not completely convince even in games that ended in a draw or were even won. But on Saturday the team disbanded: between the sometimes uninspired and carefree young players like Jadon Sancho or Jude Bellingham, who showed disastrous performance, and the seasoned older players who felt exposed, in part due to the hair-raising mistakes of the players. young boys. .
It was the carelessness of many teammates that hit Mats Hummels in the stomach. There is a lack of “concentration”, he said: “We always try to work our way in tight spaces and we have a great loss of ball speed. If it works, it looks good. But it rarely works. There is too much ‘skill’, we have too little depth in the game. “
The defense chief demanded “meaningful football”, taking risks only “when appropriate and generating profit.” The BVB is far from that, says Hummels: “Unfortunately, we play risk in rooms where the return is low, but the defensive consequence is very high.”
Indeed, due to their negligence, Dortmund conceded half of the goals they conceded in a single match that they had previously suffered in ten Bundesliga matches. The total neglect of defensive work became apparent in the first half and continued smoothly after the change. “The 1: 2 loss of the ball. The 1: 4 loss of the ball. 1: 5 – group of balls,” said Hummels. “We present the doors to the Stuttgarters in rows.”
Why is this so? “We are not a team that can defend well,” captain Marco Reus said. A tough, but brutally honest assessment.
Because there have been hints of this for weeks, even if they haven’t always been proven by results. This has to do with injuries, with a lack of experience, with the weaknesses of individual players. And in one case or another with a lack of professionalism.
However, the team remained reasonably on course, at least in close contact with the top of the table, qualified for the knockout stages of the Champions League. But it was fermenting. With the fans and in the club. Watzke and Zorc had long wondered why the team rarely uses its full potential. They just didn’t want to fix this for the coach until Sunday afternoon, unlike the fans, who never liked Favre.
But that had apparently changed with the embarrassing appearance. The question Watzke, Zorc and Sammer probably asked themselves on Saturday night was: Is Favre still a stabilizing factor, as previously assumed? The club’s management has always given him credit for it despite his known deficits, weaknesses in the areas of communication and motivation. Favre, who led BVB to runner-up twice, was considered a good developer of many young talents. Like an expert, a little introverted, a little stubborn, but always respected by players for his competence.
But on Saturday trenches were opened. It seemed a bit as if the young players, of all people, whom Favre had always defended on the outside, disappointed the coach.
The next few weeks should be used to probe the market. It’s no secret that Julian Nagelsmann and Marco Rose are being considered successors. However, it would be difficult to depart in Leipzig or Mönchengladbach. Another name that is marketed is that of American Jesse Marsch of Red Bull Salzburg. In any case, he must be a coach who defends aggressive football with a focus on pressure and counter pressure.
In any case, you have to try in some way that does not jeopardize the minimum objective of qualifying for the Champions League. That would set the club back in its quest to remain number two in Germany.
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