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Early in the season, BVB is in danger of missing out on its goals for the season. In the league, Dortmund is in fifth place, ten points behind leaders Leverkusen. And now it’s time to turn off the lights early in the DFB Cup, the shortest path to winning the title. VfB Stuttgart makes the final stop in the eighth finals on Wednesday evening (0:2).
“It’s a football catastrophe”
The defeat in Swabia is well deserved. BVB is inferior in every respect to the surprise team, which is third in the competition. It goes without saying that Dortmund will be foaming at the mouth after the match. Captain Emre Can (29) really puts his foot down in front of the ZDF microphones: “It was a catastrophe in terms of football. It cannot continue like this.”
Can believes that the appearance is incompatible with his own requirements. «We are Dortmund, there must be more. We need to sit down and analyze this. We just have to want more, have more intensity in the game.” He also made it clear to Sky: “It has to be much better. In the media we always talk about tactics. Every player should look at his own nose and his own performance have to analyze.”
Kobel “super pissed off”
Yesterday is special for Nati goalkeeper Gregor Kobel (26), because he is celebrating his birthday. But those before him do not give him a gift. Only thanks to another strong performance from their Swiss goalkeeper, BVB did not lose the cup even more clearly.
“It really hurts that we are thrown out with such a performance. “I am extremely disappointed,” he made clear to Sky. “A lot of things didn’t go well today. We gave away too many easy balls, especially in the first half. We had too little of the game, ultimately created too few chances and allowed too many. The better team won today.”
Even in an interview with ZDF, Kobel made no secret of his anger about the early elimination from the cup. ‘I can’t give an explanation right now and I’m super pissed off. That was a huge opportunity, after so many Bundesliga teams had already been eliminated.”
There are only three upper division teams left in the cup
In fact, the path to winning the Cup this season is easier on paper than it has been in a long time. In the last round, three big names were eliminated: Bayern (1:2 against Saarbrücken), Leipzig (0:1 against Wolfsburg) and last year’s finalist Freiburg (1:3 against Paderborn).
Because the giant killers from Saarbrücken have now struck again (2-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt) and BVB have also fallen on their faces, with the exception of Leverkusen, Stuttgart and to a lesser extent Seoanes Gladbach, there are only surprise teams in the field.
For the first time in twenty years, only three Bundesliga teams have reached the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup. The remaining teams in the league are either registered in the 2nd Bundesliga (Hertha, Kaiserslautern, St. Pauli, Düsseldorf) or even in the 3rd division (Saarbrücken). (sbe)
Source : Blick
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