Borussia Dortmund lost 2:3 against 1. FC Köln and went round in circles again. Changeable, inconstant, defensive with problems – Edin Terzic was also pissed off, but he still misunderstood the difficulty of the challenge. The findings on the defeat of BVB.
Talk, talk, talk – in Dortmund it’s time to come to terms with things. Edin Terzic in particular was pissed off after the 3-2 defeat against 1. FC Köln.
“We played a very good first half and were able to create a lot of chances to score,” the BVB coach analyzed after the game sky: “We talked about it during the half-time break that it will be extremely important how we start the second half. Then we get the first corner after what feels like eight seconds because we’re not clean on the ball, because we’re not ready. “
You will address it again, you will draw your lessons from it again: “Then we will talk again about having to show a reaction and finally stop it.” Terzic was served. But he was mainly served because of the poor opening phase of the second half. BVB’s problems have already been indicated beforehand.
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“We keep putting the brakes on the euphoria, precisely because of games like today,” explained the 39-year-old. It occurs repeatedly that Dortmund “simply give away games that we completely control”. In doing so, he pushed a large part of the responsibility onto the players.
He was rightly dissatisfied with the 15 minutes after the break, in which BVB gave up a 1-0 lead because he was too passive and too lethargic. But the satisfaction with the first round may also allow us to look deeper than Terzic himself would like. Control, many chances to score, stable defensively – all these descriptions were used by the coach for the first 45 minutes.
But it is also true that BVB took a long time to find solutions against 1. FC Köln and their well-organized pressing. The Cologne team closed the center with their midfield diamond, but also cleverly moved them to the wings to put BVB under pressure there. As a result, Dortmund almost never managed to create a dangerous conclusion from their own ball possession phases.
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On the other hand, the black and yellow became very dangerous in offensive transitions. After 27 minutes Donyell Malen opened the strongest phase of his team when he failed from a good position. Julian Brandt’s goal (31′) and another Malen shot followed. All three big chances came about after Cologne lost the ball – or after BVB won the ball.
Statistically, Terzic has all the numbers on his side when he speaks of a good half-time with a clear superiority. Nevertheless, the duel was more balanced from the start than the statistics suggest. “When we look at the first half, I think we had good moves, but we didn’t get the ball safely to the man,” analyzed Cologne coach Steffen Baumgart afterwards: “You saw Dortmund more in the counterattack because we invited them because we haven’t played it clean yet.”
The problems of the second half were also evident in the first half. However, the people of Cologne have not yet been able to use them there in the way they did in the second round.
For BVB it is right and good to deal with the desolate phase after the change of sides. It would be even more correct to take a critical look at the first 45 minutes.
Because in view of the potential that this squad has despite all the absences, the team is too low-risk and timid in many respects. This should not be misunderstood and should not be explained solely with the missing players.
