Weak Bundesliga start
Borussia Dortmund coach Edin Terzic issued a clear warning to his team after the poor start to the Bundesliga. “If we don’t stop it, it will be very difficult to celebrate something at some point,” said Terzic after the frustrating 2-2 lead after a quick 2-0 lead against league newcomers 1. FC Heidenheim.
Terzic explicitly recalled the previous season, when BVB gave up too many points in the first half of the season, fought their way up in the second half and then lost the title on the last day of the game with a 2-2 win against Mainz. “We felt how painful it is when you don’t manage to catch up on what was lost in the first half of the season,” said the 40-year-old. “We have therefore made it our goal to start well this time, that we don’t lose so many points that we don’t have to start catching up again. And now it’s happening to us again.”
Best teams at home 2022/23: BVB in 8th place in Europe – Man City in 6th place.
Terzic admitted that he had already seen “some signs” in the first half, which was actually sovereign, and recalled “ball losses with the heel 30 meters in front of one’s own goal”. His team “completely gave up the structure and positional discipline. In the end we mostly beat ourselves.” Building up the opponent like that and making mistakes like that are “simply things that shouldn’t happen to us if we want to have really big ambitions. Things like that don’t happen to top teams. They happen to us repeatedly. We are now going home in complete frustration. And then we will learn the lessons from it. With every consequence.”
BVB and Terzic expect tough program after international break
Sebastian Kehl explained shortly thereafter that he had not yet spoken to Terzic, but his words were almost the same. “The carelessness with which we give up the game shouldn’t happen to a team like this,” said the BVB sports director and covered the entire start of the season with the happy 1-0 win over Cologne and the 1-1 draw in Bochum. Instead of the planned nine points from the grateful starting program, BVB is now going into the international break with five points and a lot of frustration.
“All in all, the three games are far too little for the demands we have,” said Kehl. “We have to talk to the players about that. There were just too many things that shouldn’t happen at this level.” After the equaliser, “we could have lost”, as Kehl admitted. The majority of BVB players are now traveling to the national teams, “that’s why we don’t have a lot of time to work things out,” explained the head of sport. “But after that, an intense period awaits us. We have to pull ourselves together as soon as possible.” The next opponents are Freiburg, Paris Saint-Germain, Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim and Union Berlin.
There were also clear words from BVB goalscorer Julian Brandt, who was one of the better Black and Yellows, but couldn’t take control of the game either. “We mostly beat ourselves in the second half,” said Brandt on “DAZN”. “We get two goals where we actually have the ball for sure. We have to learn to protect the ball as quickly as possible, goals like that break our necks.” Once in a rage, Brandt followed up: “We make wild, wild mistakes. Then it comes to 2:2. You really have to get your head around that.”
The simple thing is: All self-inflicted:
The topic of “fitness” will certainly come from the revenue-driven trip to the US and, as Brandt deliberately said publicly, from bad work by individual players during the break. The question here is whether Terzic and Kehl have the team under control?
Tactics, formation, personnel:
The style of play of Cologne, Bochum and Heidenheim in the 2nd half was no surprise, EVERY team knows how to get our balls and meanwhile has the moral vo …
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