AUGSBURG (dpa-AFX) – The main thing is to win: After Borussia Dortmund’s (BVB (Borussia Dortmund)) laborious victory in Augsburg, coach Niko Kovac and sports director Sebastian Kehl didn’t want to complain too much about the lack of footballing splendor in the 1-0 (1-0). “It was a fighting game. And we shone in terms of fighting,” summed up Kovac. “I’m very happy with the three points. We achieved our target today,” said Kehl after the sixth win in the ninth game of the season in the Bundesliga. BVB remains at the top.
Kovac spoke of the A grade for the result and the B grade for the artistic value. “We passed the A grade,” he said: “The B grade was not what we can do, what we want, what we have already shown and what we demand of ourselves somewhere.”
Like Kehl, the coach pointed to extenuating circumstances as to why offensively it was only enough for a dangerous finish and Serhou Guirassy’s goal. Which was also favored by the Augsburgers with a slapstick action. Kovac spoke of “a chance action” that decided the tough game.
“We had 120 minutes in our bones,” he said, referring to the successful show of strength in the DFB Cup just three days earlier at Eintracht Frankfurt. That’s why the performance against FC Augsburg had to be “sensibly classified,” said sports director Kehl, in a phase with a tight schedule of games and numerous away trips.
Kehl: Can play football better
“Of course we can play better football,” said Kehl. BVB will have to do that on Wednesday in the Champions League in order to survive against Manchester City. “It will be a different game,” said Kehl. And the break is longer this time. On Friday evening, the BVB entourage was in a hurry to fly from Bavaria back to their Westphalian homeland that night./kbe/DP/he
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