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In football they are usually very close, joy and sadness. Or luck and bad luck. Or satisfaction and anger. So currently in Dortmund.
With a 2-1 victory on Tuesday, BVB confidently qualified as the group winner for the knockout stages of the Champions League, leaving behind clubs such as Brugge, Zenit and Lazio.
Days later, however, the shipwreck continues: BVB falls at home to the promoted Stuttgart 1: 5. It is a slap in the face, a debacle, a disgrace. Stuttgart played big, brave, cheeky, and could have scored more goals with a little more consistency against the team that started the season with high hopes for the title in the summer.
This is the fourth league bankruptcy for Favre and his boys this season. Hardly anyone talks about the title in Dortmund, and if they do, just because the gap with leader Bayern is (still) a manageable five points.
“It was a disaster”
Favre, on the other hand, is and will continue to be the big problem. The FCZ master coach from 2006 and 2007 always rushes in North Rhine-Westphalia when things are not going well. Even now. Favre’s current problem is that his contract will expire next summer and with this 1: 5 bankruptcy against Stuttgart he cannot present the BVB bosses with good arguments for an extension.
After the bankruptcy, the BVB coach stuttered at the press conference, trying to find the right words: “Well, difficult to analyze … It was too easy for Stuttgart.” Shortly after he spoke clearly: “It was nothing good. It was a disaster.”
The title race? Favre doesn’t like to thematize. “We don’t want to talk about Bavaria. We have to focus on ourselves, on what we have to correct. Now we need a reaction! “
Matthew sees black for Favre
According to German media, a decision on how to proceed with Favre in Dortmund should be made at the end of January. An extension is quite unlikely, it is said.
An immediate favre-off? According to “Bild am Sonntag”, it is not realistic either. First, there is no readily available alternative on the market; second, the setback against Stuttgart, without injured super sniper Erling Haaland, is not the only culprit. Therefore, it is possible that the Dortmund executive suite will do its best to continue with Favre until the summer.
Sky expert Lothar Matthäus doesn’t really believe in that. He said after the 1: 5 bankruptcy: “After games like this it will be very difficult for Lucien Favre to coach Borussia Dortmund at Christmas.” And former German national player Dietmar Hamann also thinks: “You have a championship contender who has fallen apart. That was an oath of revelation. The air for the coach is getting very, very thin. The computer does not show any progress. At best, there is stagnation. I imagine the issue of coaches will be discussed. “
And the BVB fans? They have little time to think enough of their coach. Because Monday will be exciting again. Then the tie goes up in the Champions League. Dortmund can expect an attractive opponent, and so it is again in football: joy and sadness are often together. (mam / mpe)
