After draw against Sporting
BVB coach Kovač contradicts Captain Can
20.02.2025 – 8:04 a.m.Reading time: 2 min.
BVB did not get beyond a draw against Sporting. Dortmund’s captain Emre Can then commented and triggered confusion.
Borussia Dortmund made it into the round of 16 of the Champions League through the 0-0 against Sporting Lisbon on Wednesday evening. However, the team of coach Niko Kovač did not go away as the winner. Afterwards Captain Emre Can spoke about performance – and also irritated his own coach.
Can said at the DAZN microphone: “We didn’t do more than necessary.” Then the 31-year-old added: “We have to learn, we have to get the mentality in that we win such games.” Niko Kovač did not entirely agree to his leaders’ view.
The coach said at DAZN in relation to the statements of Can: “If you play 0-0, that’s right. As a captain, he has the right to assume responsibility and I have to see that too. We only did what we wanted to do.
Since Kovač as the successor to Nuri Şahin, BVB has only achieved a victory. 3-0 in the first leg against Sporting. In the Bundesliga there were last two defeats against Stuttgart (1: 2) and Bochum (0: 2). In addition, the Dortmunders in the league are far behind in eleventh place and a total of 26 points behind leaders Bayern Munich.
DAZN presenter Laura Wontorra was surprised by the statements of Emre Can in an interview. “‘No more done than necessary’-that was his first sentence. Is that the right answer to the Bochum game?” Expert Sebastian Kneißl classified the situation a little differently. He explained: “You have to make it into account that Sporting has a large part in the game as it went.
After the game on Wednesday evening, Kovač also said self -critically: “I wanted to win the first game in this stadium here, these were my ambitions. But we just didn’t do it right in the box. It was fine up to the box, in the Box can get better. “