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Edin Terzic has already played ten competitive matches as Borussia Dortmund coach: two in the DFB-Pokal, eight in the Bundesliga. One thing is remarkable: the 38-year-old rarely exhausts the quota.
Terzic, who followed Lucien Favre a month and a half ago, only made 33 of 50 possible changes. Only in the two cup matches in Braunschweig and against Paderborn has the former Favre-Co changed five times. (The Bundesliga table)
Apparently an indication that there just aren’t enough substitutes at the moment. In SPORT1When asked, Terzic said: “The games were often close. The results weren’t so clear as to change much. We often didn’t want to create more disturbances.”
Not enough BVB substitute players
Of course, the option to make five changes remains open. “But that always depends on the course of the game.”
In the past, BVB has often had tight matches under Terzic. In the disappointing 1: 1 against Mainz, the coach only traded twice, in defeats at Gladbach (2: 4) and Leverkusen (1: 2) at least three times.
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The quality of the regular team around Mats Hummels, Erling Haaland and company is superior, only of the substitute players: the young Ansgar Knauff (a short assignment), Steffen Tigges (5 appearances) and Youssoufa Moukoko (10 appearances, 1 goal) – there just isn’t enough.
It seems that Nico Schulz (10 missions), Mahmoud Dahoud (10), Felix Passlack (11), Lukasz Piszczek (11), Mateu Morey (12) or Jesus Reinier (8) are simply not putting enough pressure on the competition.
Reinier hasn’t played a game this year
The latter in particular is a symbol of Dortmund’s quality problem. In the summer, the 19-year-old Brazilian was transferred to Real Madrid with great expectations. Since then, the offensive player has only made eight brief appearances. Reinier hasn’t played a single game this year.
Terzic says he is not far from a mission: “He is a very talented player who works hard on himself on many levels and also understands the language better. It is not easy for me not to be able to reward something like that.”
For Reinier, Real Madrid transferred 30 million euros to Flamengo Rio de Janeiro a year ago and gave the under-23 international a contract until 2026 (!). Reinier did not play a game with Real’s professionals, which is why he was loaned to Dortmund six months ago.
In the area, the attacker should accumulate match practices at the highest level, but he cannot beat Marco Reus, Giovanni Reyna, Jadon Sancho, Julian Brandt or Youssoufa Moukoko at the moment, so he even thought about an early match. winter change with his advisers in January.
“We have a lot of competition on offense,” BVB coach Michael Zorc said of Reinier a few weeks ago. “We have patience with him and I hope he has it too.” (Bundesliga schedule and results)
Reinier has a loan contract in Dortmund until 2022
In addition to Reinier, who has a loan contract at Dortmund until 2022, other players are currently quite removed from the regular team. “Besides him (Reinier), we also have other players in the squad who have had little time to play,” continued Terzic.
“You don’t have the rhythm right now. The question is, what’s the point of getting someone into a close game for five or ten minutes if they don’t have a rhythm.”
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Schulz, Piszczek and Morey clearly saw the lack of rhythm against Paderborn. The trio returned to the starting lineup after a long period, but disappointed for a long time; and Passlack, who was substituted in the second half, was partly to blame for the two goals conceded. Only Dahoud fit the BVB game perfectly and was recommended for more minutes.
The qualitative gap between first and second suit is currently large at BVB. Substitutes should also gradually volunteer and get going. BVB, which still plays in all three competitions, will have nine games until the international break at the end of March.
Terzic concluded: “I’m not far from giving all the players a chance with us.”
