Criticism of referees
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After his failed debut as a new coach of Borussia Dortmund, Niko Kovac largely protected the players. The 53-year-old said at the broadcaster “Sky” after the 1-2 in front of a home backdrop against VfB Stuttgart: “The result is the only thing that was not good, the rest was perfectly fine.”
His players “really gave everything”, said Kovac, who had taken over the office of transition coach Mike Tullberg and was responsible for the first time against the runner -up. Before Tullberg, Nuri Şahin had trained BVB, the collaboration ended after around half a year.
You shouldn’t have left the pitch as a loser, said Kovac after the defeat. “The team really implemented a lot.” In the opposing penalty area, his players would not always have made the right decisions. “We got ourselves somewhere.”
Sports director Sebastian Kehl also emphasized according to the “Ruhr news“:” I think that we played a good game in many phases today. I thought we were very dominant in the first half and had many options. We should have taken the lead in the second half. In the last decision it was a bit of luck in the last decision, perhaps also the clarity, perhaps the determination of really wanting this goal. ”
Covac criticism of decisions against BVB
In front of 81,365 spectators in the sold-out Dortmund stadium, the ex-Stuttgart Waldemar Anton (50th minute) had scored the goals of the guests with an own goal and Jeff Chabot (62nd). Julian Brandt (81st) was only the connection gate for BVB.
“I don’t want to look for an alibi here now, but the Waldi felt felt like 20 seconds,” said Kovac to the own goal. “Instead of whistling it, you let it run.” Only one of many controversial decision by referee Daniel Siebert in the eyes of the Dortmund, who lost Julian Rerson (89th) with yellow-red in a heated final phase.
