Right -back Yan Couto is under pressure at Borussia Dortmund after a difficult first season. The Brazilian, who came to BVB from Manchester City last year, is already considered a transfer flop for many. But the 22-year-old wants to prove the opposite in his second season with the black and yellow.
At the current club world championship in the USA, Yan Couto has shown that he can become far more important for Borussia Dortmund than in his first Bundesliga season. With only eight starting eleven missions, this ended rather poor for the full-back.
Against Ulsan HD, Yan Couto recently stood on the field in a true heat battle in Cincinnati over 90 minutes. A new test for the Brazilian, who made no secret of his own dissatisfaction after his first year in Dortmund.
“I suffered a little because I didn’t have for many minutes,” he was quoted in the “West German Allgemeine Zeitung” to his first intermediate conclusion.
The past season was not easy for both him personally and for the club. After the dismissal of Nuri Sahin, BVB was able to achieve the minimum goal under his successor Niko Kovac, the qualification for the Champions League.
Particularly bitter for Couto: He was brought as a desired player by Sahin, but then hardly fitted in the black and yellow plans.
At the club World Cup, he showed decent actions in the game against Ulsan on Wednesday. Four days earlier against the Mamelodi Sundowns (4: 3), he seemed overwhelmed once again on the defensive.
Use against Monterrey still open
For Couto, who was committed to Mancity for around 30 million euros, a lot is now at stake. “I knew that the first season would not be easy, and I also knew that I would not show my best version right away. A new country, another language, I was injured twice – I knew that it would be difficult when I was coming back because the team was already recorded,” the “WAZ” quoted the right -back.
All the more motivated, he spoke to the future of the Westphalia: “Now it is time to train a lot, which I do, enjoy every day and do my best. If you do your best every day, you also get opportunities to show why Dortmund has committed me.” Couto added a promise in the direction of the BVB supporters: “They haven’t seen my best version yet, and I want to show that in the coming season.”
It also depends on whether he will be able to return to CF Monterrey in the round of 16 in Atlanta (kick-off 3:00 a.m.) on Tuesday whether Julian Rerson will return to the traditional full-back position.