Marco Rose didn’t seem completely happy. Despite all the joy about the amazing 6-0 (2-0) in the duel with his former club from Mönchengladbach, the Dortmund football teacher was skeptical. “I think that the disappointment hasn’t gone away with this game, but will continue to reverberate. We all notice that.”, known to the 45-year-old coach. Before his new team’s tricky second leg in the Europa League against Glasgow Rangers on Thursday (9 p.m.), he didn’t want to trust the supposed upward trend: “We’ve caught blows in the neck in too many games.”
Outstanding Reus responds to critics
How the astonishing reaction of BVB on Sunday to the embarrassing 2: 4 against the Scots is to be evaluated will only be seen in the seething Ibrox Stadium. After all, the belief in a small football miracle in Scotland grew – more with every goal against Mönchengladbach. “We wanted and we had to show a reaction, we did that. Today we regained our self-confidence”commented the outstanding Marco Reus.
The BVB captain represented the team’s mysterious form fluctuations in Dortmund’s biggest win since September 2018 (7-0 against Nuremberg). The 32-year-old veteran responded with two goals (26th/81st) and three assists to critical media comments in the days after the 2: 4 against the Rangers, according to which he sometimes played more hide-and-seek than football in tight games.