The Dortmund team around Niclas Füllkrug were left out in the cold against Bayern. Image: dpa
Dortmund is defeated by Munich again. Why is that? You had to listen very carefully to sense some of the deeper causes. Julian Brandt’s thoughts were interesting.
Many things were not easy for the Dortmund team on the pitch this Saturday evening, but in the end they were able to easily put into words the weaknesses that underlay the latest episode of their long and rarely interrupted series of humiliation in games against Bayern Munich.
“Speed, approach, aggressiveness – that was simply not enough,” said sports director Sebastian Kehl after the 0:4 and explained: “It wasn’t a good game for us, we lacked grip.” Coach Edin Terzic sounded similar, who admitted that the Munich team were “superior in many areas”: “How aggressive they were, how alert they were, how they protected the ball.”
