Serhou Guirassy enhanced Stuttgart’s extremely strong performance against Dortmund – which Sebastian Hoeneß had planned exactly that way.
Sebastian Hoeneß clenches his fists – Edin Terzic has other emotions at the back. IMAGO/Press photo Baumann
Serhou Guirassy was almost spared against BVB, but his Stuttgart colleagues would have had to score a few times for that to happen – or Dortmund. “If it had been decided in either direction, we would probably have refrained from making a substitution in order to avoid the residual risk,” explained VfB coach Sebastian Hoeneß later.
Instead, Guirassy “had to” play on Saturday afternoon in the 67th minute and turned a 1-1 scoreline into 2-1 with his 15th goal of the season from the penalty spot. The Bundesliga’s top game should have been ashamed of everything else, VfB had acted too deliberately and the third-placed team had overrun the fourth-placed team too brutally at times.
Hoeneß “really proud”
And that was exactly the plan. “We knew that Dortmund had their third English week in a row, we wanted to let them feel that from the start,” revealed Hoeneß. “We wanted to go for it right from the start and create pressure. We did that really well.” In front of the goal, Jamie Leweling & Co. were always hapless or negligent – especially with Chris Führich’s penalty – and at times goalkeeper Gregor Kobel was simply too good.
But: “The way we dealt with the missed penalty and the goal conceded was great,” said Hoeneß, who also liked how his team prevented counterattacks in the slightly less dominant second half and defended well “together, yes, simply.” “stayed with it”. “That makes me really proud today.”
Undav’s dream of the “home European Championship”
Is VfB, which made an impressive comeback after the last two league defeats, now dreaming big after this coup? “Not yet,” insisted goalscorer Deniz Undav that evening in the “Aktuelle Sportstudio” – even though he and his colleagues are going into the international break on a Champions League pitch. “We just want to have fun with football.”
And Undav wants something else: to the European Championships. He had already expressed this offensively in the kicker interview before his loan to VfB, and he did it again now. “I hope so,” the attacker replied when asked whether a call from national coach Julian Nagelsmann would be appropriate for his recent career advancements. “This is my dream.”
He didn’t rule out a future in the Turkey jersey, for which he could also play (“In the end, it’s nice for one national team”), but let his preference for the DFB selection become clear. “Home European Championship – I would like to be there.”
2023-11-11 23:44:22
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