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Gladbach wants to keep Bayer at a distance

EFourth day before the end in fourth place, the premier class in their own hands, but Bayer Leverkusen in the neck of a million dollar race: The situation seems familiar to the Borussia Mönchengladbach pros. Unlike in the previous year, the brilliant starting position should not lead to another horror scenario. Coach Marco Rose has put aside the negative memories of the last day of the pre-season with his players. “The optimism is great. I trust my team to do everything, ”said the 43-year-old before the game against Hertha BSC this Saturday (3:30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and Sky):“ We know about the opportunities and risks. We can determine in which direction that will go. “

Just like in the previous season: But a year ago, after a home loss to Borussia Dortmund (0-2) on the last matchday, the Gladbachers were intercepted by Leverkusen and had to settle for fifth place. The starting position for the third move into the group phase this season already seems a bit more comfortable. While the five-time German champion would have needed a win against title candidate Dortmund last year, a draw is probably enough against the midfielder team from the capital, given two points and nine goals ahead of Bayer.

Bosz doesn’t want to be embarrassed

The Leverkusen team want to be on hand in any event if the Mönchengladbachers slip. “Gladbach shouldn’t lose and we shouldn’t win our game under any circumstances,” coach Peter Bosz warned of the worst scenario that his team, who expected Mainz 05, would end up being ridiculous. With only seven points from the past six games, the Werkself have carelessly gambled away a better starting position since the restart.

Meanwhile, Gladbach’s sports director Max Eberl has criticized how football is dealt with during the corona crisis. “Football has shown that not all footballers are idiots and all officials are money makers. The football fans were – contrary to all calls from the outside – careful and prudent and did not gather around the stadiums in large numbers on match days, ”writes Eberl in a contribution for the news magazine Focus. Certainly not everyone has to be a football fan. But every industry deserves respect for trying to survive. “Many critics reduced football to the motto: footballers don’t need any more money – get rid of football! But it was never about a few football millionaires, ”said Eberl.

A Bundesliga club is ultimately a medium-sized company and the Bundesliga offers 55,000 people work and wages. These are not just soccer players, but also salespeople, accountants, marketing people and greenkeepers. Eberl admitted that “there were also one or two embarrassing mistakes in hygiene measures in the Bundesliga”: “But such rare stupidities were then populistically exploited by people for their own interests. Sometimes that had nothing to do with a serious handling of facts. “

The 46-year-old also advocated financial protection in times of crisis. “For the future, we clubs may need a kind of cash fund, which could be claimed by any Bundesliga club in the licensing process of the German Football League,” said Eberl: “The money saved in this way would additionally secure the liquidity of the clubs in the event of a crisis.”

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