While BVB goalkeeper Roman Bürki also found clear words and (once again in Dortmund) opened a mentality debate, former national team players Lothar Matthäus and Dietmar Hamann joined Sky tough with the Borussia. “It has a bad taste,” said Hamann and said: “As you lost today, you mustn’t lose”. The 46-year-old missed “will and hunger” from Dortmund, “it wasn’t” too much to ask “to give everything again on the last match day. The accusation “that Jörg Schmadtke made, the Dortmund (…) have to put up with.”
Matthäus, at least since the defeat against FC Bayern one of the most prominent critics of BVB coach Lucien Favre, again brought the Swiss up for discussion. “Does the coach not have the team under control?” Asked the record national player rhetorically and doubted the starting eleven of BVB without the often outstanding Jadon Sancho and Achraf Hakimi (who is about to move to Inter Milan) this season. Favre cannot be accused of not having positioned himself in the best possible way in every game, said the 59-year-old. Further Matthäus criticisms: BVB ran “again today less” and acted “without discipline”. The second Matthew question therefore fell into the same line as the first: “Can Dortmund achieve his goals with a coach Lucien Favre?”
Hamann added that it was significant that Bayern in Wolfsburg still got the ball from the net at 4: 0 and pushed to break the Bundesliga record of 101 goals, but BVB showed a frighteningly weak performance . Tenor: Slips that BVB regularly affords would practically never happen to the record champion under coach Hansi Flick. “I would never assume that a team distorts the competition or that it has not tried to get the best result,” said Hamann. “Nevertheless, one has to say that the Dortmund team lost without a song against Mainz. And also the way today: only a blue team was felt on the pitch, no black and yellow.”
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A Non-performance as against Hoffenheim “did not happen for the first time,” said Matthäus. A week and a half ago there was an inexplicably weak game against Dortmund (0-2) against Dortmund. Afterwards, ex-BVB professional Michael Rummenigge had in his column for SPORTBUZZER chosen drastic word. He had come to a different conclusion than Hamann. “The BVB defeat against Mainz was a distortion of competition. They played with the handbrake on. Of course it’s not much for Borussia this season. You can hardly write ‘runners-up’ on the letterhead,” analyzed the former international.
Unlike coach Favre, who said that the bitter defeat would be “pretty quickly forgotten”, Bürki put his finger in the wound. According to the Swiss, BVB, which had already announced that it wanted to play for the championship again next year, lacked the “winning mentality of FC Bayern, which led the record champions to the title for the eighth consecutive season. “It’s exactly the little games where the points are missing to be at the top. We may have to be a little stricter”said Bürki.
