Points yes, rest no: Borussia Dortmund is entering the short Christmas break with a satisfactory end to the year, but also with new excitement.
On Friday in the 2-0 duel with Mönchengladbach (to the match report>>>), DFB team striker Karim Adeyemi caused a stir with his next miss.
The ex-Salzburg player and teammate of Marcel Sabitzer was replaced after an hour and was immediately very upset about it.
Kehl announces consequences
“Karim didn’t play a good game. He deserved to be replaced. That’s exactly the reaction I want and the club doesn’t want to see,” says sports director Sebastian Kehl, who stopped Adeyemi before the angry walk into the dressing room, as TV images showed. “I told him he doesn’t go into the dressing room, he sits there.”
If he is substituted, Adeyemi must “accept the coach’s decision and must not behave like that. There is no excuse for that,” said Kehl and announced the consequences.
“We’ve had some of these situations now and we don’t want to see these situations and that’s why he’ll get a fine for it,” explains the 45-year-old on Sky.
“The performance wasn’t good”
Both Kehl and coach Niko Kovac describe the substitution as justified. “The reason for the substitution was clearly the performance. I think – you were all in the stadium – it wasn’t good,” said the coach.
In fact, Adeyemi was not convincing and also became frustrated in discussions with the referee and the opponent.
At least, according to Kehl, the attacker appeared to be “reasonable” in a later conversation. The sports director also says: “Of course he also has his point of view, but I won’t express it here now.”
Adeyemi, who started the season well in terms of sport, had recently caused a stir. In mid-November it became known that the 23-year-old had already received a penalty order for illegal possession of weapons at the end of October with a fine of 60 daily rates.
