Good advice has been expensive for the largest Dortmund crisis in the largest Dortmund crisis in the largest Dortmund crisis for decades. Lothar Matthäus has a simple one: drive in sight in the haze of the gray middle capacity. A midfield star of the black yellow gets his fat from the record national player.
Like the entire team of Borussia Dortmund, national player Julian Brandt remains well below his normal level in the 2024/25 season.
“I would like to see Brandt as a leader, but it always shows me the opposite,” writes “Sky” expert Lothar Matthäus in his column for the pay TV channel.
The offensive player has already played “world-class games, but now he fluctuates between the world class and the district class.” BVB icon Kevin Großkreutz had recently formulated a similar criticism to Jamie Gitten’s address. “If he has a good day, he is a world -class player, if not, then he can play with us in the Westphalia league,” he said about the young star.
Matthäus had done Brandt round after the 1-2 defeat of the Dortmund against VfB Stuttgart.
If it goes to Matthew, the new BVB coach Niko Kovac must now quickly make his Dortmund scaffold together. “A trainer must have his first eleven to 13 players at the beginning of a season, others have to look at the back first. Kovac is now also about finding his regular formation,” said the TV expert.
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Kovac’s predecessor Nuri Sahin, on the other hand, “changed very often”, criticized Matthew, criticized the shot coach. The record national player demanded that “now calmly come in,” said.
The situation is “not only unsatisfactory after the 1: 2 against VfB Stuttgart at the Kovac debut, it is terrible”.
Matthäus advises all BVB participants to take steam from the boiler. Borussia Dortmund “definitely has to play internationally,” warned the 63-year-old. However, the Champions League as the goal would only “build up additional pressure. But that doesn’t work at the moment, because the players are not free in the head anyway.”
The change of coach alone does not guarantee a change, says Matthew. For Kovac and Co. it is now a matter of getting “step by step” out of the crisis.