Before the duel with Leipzig
Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic is feeling greater pressure after the Bundesliga club’s recent disappointing performances. The 41-year-old tries to deal with this in a relaxed manner. “There is no pressure from outside that can be as great as the pressure I feel inside,” said the coach. BVB recently disappointed badly at Bayer Leverkusen (1:1) and in the DFB Cup at VfB Stuttgart (0:2).
In addition, Dortmund is not in a Champions League position before the chase duel on Saturday evening against RB Leipzig (6:30 p.m./Sky) and is already ten points behind first place in the table (to the table).
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There is currently criticism of Terzic, who is accused of playing too defensively. “For every Bundesliga coach there are pressure situations in a season. Of course I feel it now too,” said Terzic, who criticized his team’s lack of consistency, but also discussed the expectations in Dortmund: “These setbacks will always happen. This is always made into an issue.”
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There has also been controversy in the Transfermarkt BVB forum for a few weeks now about whether Terzic is still the right one for Westphalia, who have only won one of their last six league games. “BVB has a bigger coaching problem than a player problem, that should be clear to even the last fan by now,” writes user “Kaapke49,” for example.
For “rm-woogie” the problem lies deeper: “We need a fundamental change and view of sporting leadership and its path. There’s no point in just installing a new coach; BVB first needs to know what it wants. (…) If BVB continues to rely on a physical attack without outside players, then in my opinion we will never achieve the consistency and flexibility that is necessary to play a decent season.
I remember one sentence from Terzic in particular, and I think he said it right when he was introduced: I will now be the next ex-coach of Borussia Dortmund.
Yep, and I think the time should be now. …
User “Kloppos_Klopper” meanwhile sees Terzic more in the youth sector: “I would think it would be great if Terzic – in the event of what I think is likely to be a dismissal in the foreseeable future – would take over the 2nd team next season. I would like to keep him at the club and he could provide consistency in the position for ages. In my opinion, this role at BVB would have been tailor-made for him.” And user “DanielZZ” writes: “If Terzic loses against Leipzig and PSG and still doesn’t fly, I won’t believe in anything anymore. Just a win against Leipzig and a defeat against PSG should be enough.”
Terzic himself looked positively into the near future on Friday. The coach demanded that his team now react against Leipzig, who are one place and one point ahead of BVB, and addressed the defense, among other things: “We have a clear task to do better as quickly as possible. (…) We defended well for the most part during the season. It’s in us, we just have to deliver it more consistently.”
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