Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig have stabilized. On Saturday (3:30 p.m.) they play out who can call themselves Bayern hunters.
Dortmund is not necessarily the cultural capital of the world, but there is a lot to discover. Niko Kovac could enjoy the Panorama view from the Florian Tower, stroll in the Westfalenpark or breathe soot-rich industrial history in the Zeche Zollern.
But, no time: With a stick -hard work, Kovac turns the far biggest attraction of this city to success – BVB. “I saw something from Dortmund, but not that much,” said the coach during his press conference before the Bundesliga home game against RB Leipzig on Saturday (3:30 p.m., live in the ticker and in the audio full report at Sportschau.de).
He is now there for eight months and he stays “mainly here”, ie on the Hohenbuschei training area, or in his bed. He laughed at it with the journalists. Niko Kovac has only stabilized the BVB, now it slowly pushes it again where the club also sees itself: near Bavaria Munich.
Kovac’s intermediate balance: “We are not spinners”
The winner of the duel with RB, the undefeated second in the table with the form strong in the table, can call himself a real “Bayern hunter”. Kovac used the reason for an interim balance.
He and Dortmund, the fits together, fans, employees, all, he said with a bond from English: “We fit.” No dreams, honest work. “We are simple, we are not spinners, we are normal people.” Only he is lucky enough to be the coach: “But I am primarily human.”
Wild curve approaches the rising straight line
A person who has been a stroke of luck as a coach. Kovac himself found that the fluctuations have decreased enormously – the performance had previously been a wild curve, up, down, up, up, now approach an increasing straight line.
“The rashes have become much lower,” says Kovac, and it gets up even better. Setbacks like at FC St. Pauli (3: 3) or at Juventus Turin (4: 4), both of the type of Dortmund collapse, are less common. Borussia has not lost 13 games in a row in the Bundesliga.
The hit that sealed the last BVB defeat in the league: Lois Opendas 2-0 for Leipzig.
13 league games unbeaten – since 0: 2 in Leipzig
The last defeat was a 0: 2, at: RB Leipzig. On the 26th matchday of the pre -season. A large arc could be beaten from this, conjure up a ripening test – with the comparability, it is not far after after a summer transfer window.
RB stormed on March 15 with the top -class Lois Openda, Benjamin Sesko and Xavi Simons, none of them are still there. The new coach Ole Werner moderated the upheaval. Curious that the club can also become a hunter from the test tube – on the first match day, RB in Munich had 0: 6 on the hat.
Ole Werner: “We act as a group”
This was followed by victories against Heidenheim, Mainz, Cologne and Wolfsburg. “I think we have initiated a development,” said Werner on Friday, “that we really act as a group. And we want to demonstrate that in Dortmund.” Niko Kovac has the same.
No complaints according to Bilbao game
His players survived the intensive 4: 1 in the Champions League against Athletic Bilbao. “So far everything is okay. Nobody is struck, nobody has any complaints. Everyone was there and completed the program, which was decided today,” said Kovac on Thursday.
For the team of coach Ole Werner, the Saxons are not represented in the European Cup this season that the Saxons are not represented in the European Cup. Also because Werner, as a new RB coach, has more training sessions with his team.
Our sources:
- Sport Information Service (SID)
- German press agency (dpa)
