BVB winner Emre Can talks about his performance improvement

Set in the center 2023

“I can do a lot more, I know that. A lot of people in the club know that. It’s my goal to get that back,” explained Borussia Dortmund’s midfielder Emre Can self-critically at the beginning of the year after playing just one league game over 90 minutes in the first half of the season. In 2023 there are already three of them, in four of five Bundesliga games the ex-national player was in the starting eleven of BVB coach Edin Terzic, missing only against Augsburg due to injury. After beating Chelsea in the first leg of the Champions League, the 29-year-old spoke about the reasons for his performance improvement over the past few weeks.

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“In the end, honest and hard work always pays off. I work hard on myself. I have big plans for the new year and said to myself: ‘No matter what, Emre – you step on the gas. It doesn’t matter if you play or not, you don’t let it get you down, you do your thing.’ And I’m just trying to pull it off,” Can said in the magazine “table footballquoted. The Hinserie 2022, while there was rarely room for the right foot in the center next to Jude Bellingham and new signing Salih Özcan, was “not always easy”. “Maybe it wasn’t fair, maybe it was fair. Others have to judge that. But I let it pull me down a bit,” the ex-Liverpooler continued about his lack of playing time.

In the new year, Can’s performances have also made him indispensable for Terzic in the league, who recently let the 37-time international play variably in a trio with Bellingham and Özcan, only with the Englishman on the double six or as the sole clearer. The midfielder, who was linked with Benfica in the winter, among other things, has so far repaid the trust with performance and is undoubtedly a factor in Dortmund being unbeaten in seven games in all competitions in 2023.

Can (contract until 2024) also had a simple explanation for the latter after the Chelsea game: “We just try to be there for each other. It wasn’t our best game, but we fought as a team again today. It’s not that we’ve only played in the past, but there have also been games in which we eased up a bit and broke up as a team.” That has now changed.

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