On Tuesday evening, Borussia Dortmund will compete for the first leg of the Champion League playoffs at the Top Club Sporting Portuguese (from 9:00 p.m.). In the Estadio Jose Alvalade, there are also a meeting between two strikers, namely Viktor Gyökeres on the part of the Lisbon and Serhou Guirassy on the part of the BVB. The latter recently had some charging inhibition.
The pure numbers still look quite properly. Since switching from VfB Stuttgart to BVB, Guirassy has played 26 games for the black and yellow in the Bundesliga and Champions League, where he scored 18 goals. Especially in the premier class, the Guineer showed itself at the highest level with nine goals in eight missions.
Nevertheless, the criticism of the 28-year-old was louder. Guirassy lacks bond with the game, too often he looks like a foreign body in the attack efforts of the Dortmund. The new head coach Niko Kovac, however, had full backing the evening before the duel with Sporting.
“At Serhou you also have to say the following: He plays through, it basically plays everything that is a high number of minutes and stress. If a team does not play out five or six huge opportunities per half, it is also for everyone Individual strikers, “said the new trainer of the Westphalia, who lost his debut on BVB Bank on Saturday with 1: 2 against VfB Stuttgart.
Kovac: “We know about his qualities”
“We know about his qualities and its importance for the team. Of course, he lives from his teammates, just as every striker lives from his teammates. If we manage to bring ourselves into good situations, then we only have to do the little bit of precision In order not only to show him, but also the other strikers accordingly, “said Kovac, which must change in the Dortmund offensive game at short notice, so that the center forwarder also comes into its own.
Guirassy is currently only denying his second season in the premier class. For the first time he ran in the Champions League in the 2020/2021 season, at that time he scored twice in four games for Stade Rennes from France.