BVB coach Rose on Ponracic: “Silence is sometimes gold”

Marco Rose spoke about the Marin Pongracic incident at the Dortmund press conference before the Bundesliga hit against RB Leipzig (Saturday, from 6.30 p.m. in the live ticker). The BVB coach also gave an update on Giovanni Reyna’s injury.

“I’ll point out to him that silence is sometimes gold,” Rose advised his center-back. Previously, the licensed game manager Sebastian Kehl had already confirmed that the statements of the 24-year-old will have consequences. “Some statements are absolutely wrong in terms of content,” said Kehl.

Pongracic had previously revealed some secret internals in an interview with rapper and comedian SSYNIC. Even at his ex-club Wolfsburg, he did not have a good hair. “I thought that we talked to him very intensively and that the subject of focus is a point that he takes more to heart,” said VfL sporting director Marcel Schäfer angrily.

In addition, Rose spoke about the tense personnel situation at the black and yellow. Among other things, the first three left-backs are missing from the squad after Marius Wolf’s injury. “Felix Passlack and even our central defender Manuel Akanji can play outside,” said Rose, “we will find a solution.” Erling Haaland, Emre Can, Mahmoud Dahoud and Giovanni Reyna are also missing.

In the latter case, the injury suffered turned out to be “more difficult than expected”. “It is slowly getting better for him. We hope that we can gradually take further steps forward, but we still cannot foresee when he will be back. Hopefully he will be an issue again this year,” said Dortmund -Coach: “It was a muscle injury with minor tendon involvement. He repeatedly had minor problems in certain rehab processes.”