Borussia Dortmund has not produced as many pleasant news as on this April Saturday for many months. With 4: 1 (1-0), the crisis -beamed team of coach Niko Kovac won at SC Freiburg, the Dortmunders are again in the struggle for participating in one of the European Cups of the coming season. The goal production is successful as long: after the three goals against Mainz, the Dortmund will now be four goals. Kovac said: “The way we steered the game in our direction makes us happy. Not only tabular, but also with regard to the next games.” In addition to the result and victory in a competitor from a similar table region, guests from the area were able to enjoy the impressions that have left different individual players. who repeatedly plagued injuries and now made his best game for the Dortmund. “I am satisfied,” said Kovac about the midfielder, whose talent is becoming more and more visible. “We have gained one that may be available in the next few weeks.” Felix Nmecha, who for the first time since his serious knee injury from January, was happy. Jamie Gittens scored his first goal since the beginning of January after his substitution, and Serhou Guirassy has recovered from his muscle injury and strengthened his self -confidence with the goal for the meantime. “We had a lot of quality on the bench today, it is really good for us all,” said sports director Sebastian Kehl. And last but not least, Kovac seems to have found a game system on the basis of which the Dortmund has developed an ever better balance between offensive and defensive. “The direction is right,” said Kovac, “that’s what we hoped for.” As against Mainz, the Dortmund played with a triple chain on the defensive and a double tip with Karim Adeyemi and Maximilian Beier. The team is still in a state in which a success in the upcoming Champions League quarter-finals against Barcelona on Wednesday (9:00 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Champions League and at DAZN) would be a surprise, but the confidence is back, with Freiburg goalkeeper Florian Müller not entirely wrong when he said: ” The origin of adeyemis 0: 1 had the Freiburg bad luck with an uncontrolled ball contact, without which the hit would hardly have been made. Chukwuemeka was lucky that his shot was deflected for 0: 2, and there were also two moments in front of the Dortmund goal when this game might have found a different direction: Junior Adamu came to a great option after a quarter of an hour, but too far too far. And briefly at the beginning of the second half, Ritsu Doan missed a good chance of 1:11 after five games without victory in a difficult situation. The starting point is actually comfortable, the club has already collected as many points as in the entire previous season, but after a very good phase at the end of winter, the sharpness has been lost. “We risked a lot today, but a lot went against us today,” said coach Julian Schuster, “At the back of it was very brutal.” Suddenly Borussia Dortmund has the best chances of overtaking the Freiburger, with experience. The next opportunity: the game in Barcelona on Wednesday.
