YOU KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AT BORUSSIA DORTMUND????
Borussia Dortmund have
gone from German champions and European contenders to the Bundesliga's
bottom club in the blink of an eye
.Dortmund v 1. FSV Mainz 05
Borussia Dortmund players reflect on the defeat to Augsburg.
So what's going on? Has Jurgen Klopp lost his aura? Sky Deutschland’s Uli Köhler does his best to explain...
Can you believe it? Borussia Dortmund - Champions League finalists in London 2013 - are bottom of the Bundesliga.
Nobody
can believe it in Germany, whether you are a Borussia supporter or not.
The only problem is... it's true. It's shocking for all football
lovers.
Dortmund played the game in a way that made everybody fall in love;
their charismatic manager, Jurgen Klopp, had job offers from all over
the world as recently as last summer - Manchester United included - and
then suddenly they lose everything.
Franz Beckenbauer said after
their most recent defeat - at home against Augsburg on Wednesday: "If
someone had predicted at the start of the season Dortmund would be
ranked 18th and last in the Bundesliga, they would have sent him
straight to the madhouse."
Jurgen Klopp: Another low moment for Dortmund coach.
But what has gone wrong? The answer is simple: everything.
Then comes the next question: what do they need to change?
Now it gets difficult. There are no obvious reasons - although everyone seems to have a theory.
'The
players lost ambition!' 'The squad is not talented and skilful enough!'
'The team hates Jurgen Klopp!' 'Klopp lost his aura!'
But none of this is true, and that's why everybody is so desperate.
Sure,
at the start of the season Borussia had many injured players and could
never really practise together. So it's true they had a lack of fitness.
As
two-time German champions and a two-time runners-up in the last four
years, you maybe can lose some games, but being last? It's unthinkable,
and it gets even worse: the team have lost all their self-confidence,
the manager and the whole club is not only desperate, but now they are
panicking.
Under the threat of relegation they have changed their
game from skilful and powerful pressing to a way of football we used to
call 'typically English': running, fighting and wide, long balls.
Kick
and hope!
Maybe it will be enough to avoid the drop, but the depression stays.Thanks SKY sports by Caunter
Maoni
Chapisha Maoni