Football is over in the DFB Cup
The tough reckoning between the BVB captain and his team
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Emre Can found clear words for BVB’s performance after the cup exit
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VfB Stuttgart throws BVB out of the DFB Cup and moves into the quarter-finals. Dortmund are inferior in all respects. After the defeat, captain Emre Can finds clear words for his team and takes the general score.
Three minutes before the final whistle, it seemed as if BVB had given up. Four Stuttgart players stormed into Dortmund’s half, with only one Dortmund defender standing in their way. Nico Schlotterbeck was left alone by his teammates and no one rushed back to help him.
Only because VfB finished the attack sloppily did they remain 2-0 in the round of 16 of the DFB Cup. It was a well-deserved victory for Stuttgart, which does not reflect the balance of power on the pitch. Dortmund was inferior in all respects and could have lost significantly more.
Perplexed Reus – BVB was inferior in all respects
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After the deserved defeat, Emre Can didn’t mince his words. The BVB captain sharply criticized his team on ZDF, especially the offensive. “It was missing at the front and back today. In terms of football, it was a catastrophe. We are Dortmund, it can’t continue like this,” said Can. We need to sit down together and discuss it: “Our start is very, very bad. As defenders, we are always under pressure, the Stuttgart defense always had a lot of time. But we won’t give up, we’ll keep going.”
“There were a lot of things today that didn’t fit”
Even Dortmund’s best player of the evening couldn’t find anything positive to say about the game – goalkeeper Gregor Kobel, who saved BVB from a major defeat with many outstanding saves. “There are a lot of things today that didn’t fit. We gave away too many balls. The better team won today. Stuttgart does it outstandingly, there is a lot of movement there. We were always very static and always took too long until we found the next man,” said Kobel.
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