After FC Bayern’s exit, BVB could have stormed into the DFB Cup final and the title almost unrivaled – but unfortunately it’s too stupid. There are reasons. And consequences.
“Where did Bayern fall? Should we give up now or what?”
There he was again – the thin-skinned and eaten BVB captain Marco Reus, the in conversation with ARD reporter Valeska Homburg had to explain not only an unnecessary defeat but also the disappointing overall situation at Borussia Dortmund. In this case in relation to the Bundesliga.
An unnecessary cup defeat? Embarrassing is even better.
Dortmund let themselves be taken by surprise by second division club FC St. Pauli and were knocked out of the DFB Cup 2-1 in the round of 16 in the evening. well deserved.
This is particularly bitter because FC Bayern was already eliminated in this competition – and the chance of winning the title is therefore much greater than in the Bundesliga.
There, FC Bayern – as Valeska Homburg correctly stated – has sped ahead by six points in the past two months.
In the Champions League – she also summed it up correctly – BVB was eliminated in an actually feasible group with Ajax Amsterdam, Sporting Lisbon and Besiktas Istanbul. That too was unnecessary to the point of embarrassing.
The last chance for the title is now in the Europa League, to which BVB has been relegated. Franz Beckenbauer once dubbed this competition, or more precisely its predecessor called the Uefa Cup, the “Losers’ Cup”.
That’s where BVB belongs this season.
Because he has already lost ten games in all competitions. One with 0:4 against Ajax, one with 2:3 at Hertha and now the cup game at St. Pauli.
And that despite super striker Erling Haaland, who scored 21 goals in 18 games. On Sunday, licensed player boss Sebastian Kehl made hope in a “double pass” at Sport 1 that the Norwegian would stay, underlining BVB’s ability to win the title with last year’s cup.
Dortmund now seems to have lost it.
This is how BVB scares Haaland, who is obsessed with victories and titles – forces him to go, so to speak, so that he can achieve his high goals.
Maybe Dortmund lost the ability to win the title for a long time and the cup wins in 2017 and 2021 were slip-ups. After all, BVB has finished runners-up five times in the last nine years, not once champion. And he lost three cup finals.
BVB had the last really successful team in 2011 and 2012 under coach Jürgen Klopp, when they won the championship twice in a row.
The big difference: At that time, the team assumed that they would be able to play together longer in the constellation and be able to stand up to Bayern in the long term. It was only when Mario Götze left in 2013 that this dream was brutally shattered and the team fell apart.
Today, Haaland and Jude Bellingham, the two best players, are constantly on the move to a top European club. And with stars about to take off, obviously no titles can be won.
“That’s a bit stupid of us,” said coach Marco Rose after the final whistle at FC St. Pauli. That, in turn, is correct to some extent – but also an understatement to some extent.
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