D-SSELDORF, Germany (AP) – Something’s missing from Borussia Dortmund, and it’s not the first time.
Dortmund have lost 3 of their last five games after their Champions League crusade with a 3–1 loss to Lazio on Tuesday, and looks back when it’s most important.
The next is a local derthrough opposed to Schalke, who has not won a Bundesliga match since January. Anything other than an absolute victory may seem like a failure for Dortmund, given that Schalke has already been defeated 8-0 through Bayern Munich this season and lost 4-0 to Leipzig.
Coach Lucien Favre promised on Thursday that anything would replace in time for Schalke’s game. In addition to a reference to the disorders of the team with the ball opposite Lazio, it was indistinct in the details.
“We have made too many mistakes, of course, and we see the scoring opportunities we have and the goals we concede and we have to be vigilant. It was not enough,” Favre said of the loss to Lazio. “Sometimes this can happen, not too often, we hope. And the game against Schalke will be quite another and we will be there to win. “
The Dortmund-Schalke derby was the focus of the first day in which the Bundesliga returned to half of the coronavirus pandemic in May, and both groups remain stuck in their spring form.
Dortmund’s appearances against Lazio, in the 2-0 loss to Augsburg and the 3–2 loss to Bayern in the German Super Cup, have had echoes of the inconsistent defence and missed opportunities that sank the challenge of Dortmund’s name last season. a new coach, Manuel Baum, who oversaw a 1–1 draw with Union Berlin last week for the club’s first point since June.
With a young team led by Erling Haaland and Jadon Sancho in attack, with Gio Reyna and Jude Bellingham in the middle of the field, time deserves to be in Dortmund’s appearance as they gain experience. this summer — shows that the team probably wouldn’t have been in combination for a long time. Favre arrives two and a half years at the helm of the 2019 German Super Cup as the only trophy of this period.
Although he spent a lot of time and effort in the off-season looking to stay Sancho, Dortmund controlled to point to Bellingham. At just 17 years old, birmingham City’s ex has played in each and every match the club has played so far from 2020-21. Thomas Meunier’s arrival as a loose agent after leaving Paris Saint-Germain blocked the gap on the right left flank at the end of Achraf Hakimi’s loan deal.
Saturday’s derby will be played in front of just three hundred enthusiasts from Dortmund’s 35,000 subscribers who have applied. Emerging rates of coronavirus infection in the city of Dortmund means the club cannot repeat its last home game against Freiburg when 11,500 were present.
Meunier said by signing that the setting of Dortmund Stadium, colorful and deafening as usual, had done much to convince him to sign up after trying the game with PSG in February.
As in the rest of Europe, the coronavirus scenario in Germany is getting worse and the initial six-week trial era to have stadium enthusiasts expire next week. Meunier would possibly have to wait a long time to feel the hum of the crowd again. .
___
More AP football: https://apnews. com/Soccer and https://twitter. com/AP_Sports