Borussia Dortmund lacks the courage to win the championship

Yes, Lucien Favre can claim the best statistics. Nine victories in eleven second-round games make for an excellent record for the BVB coach. But what helps a title favorite such a winning streak if the last step is missing: victory when it matters?

In the home game against Bayern Munich, it was important for the Favre team to score three points in order to reduce the deficit to the defending champion and leader. Well, the game was lost 0-1 and the Kimmich goal hurt twice: the gap is now seven points.

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Game joke disappeared in the top game

Yes, Lucien Favre can lose such a top game. Even at home, where the support from the south stand was completely lacking. But this view is also part of his balance sheet: his team did not score a single goal against Bayern in this Bundesliga season. The first leg ended 0: 4.

What makes the defeat against Bavaria so bitter: The playfulness that has developed since the winter break with the arrival of Erling Haaland had disappeared in the top duel. Suddenly the BVB: no surprising feint, with no guts to attack, a rabbit in front of the snake

Borussia Dortmund is not a bad team and Lucien Favre is not a bad coach. Only the Bayern pursuer number one with this style of play will never get the chance to win the championship trophy. For this to happen, surprising things have to happen on the lawn.

Boateng’s supposed handball is no excuse

With a star ensemble like FC Bayern, you can’t hope that the inevitable phase of weakness will last longer than a few games. Hansi Flick trains his team too seriously and too cleverly for that. You have to shock Bayern.

And Borussia Dortmund never did that in any phase of the game. That referee Tobias Stieler did not whistle a supposed handball by Jérôme Boateng should not be an excuse. Five shots on goal are pitiful in a home game when the opponent has just as many.

Bayern haters have to get used to the idea that the record champions will defend their seven-point lead on the last six matchdays and win the eighth championship in a row. One should shout to them: blame yourself.

Those who have calculated something should not complain. Since 2013 there has been enough opportunity to perform as fearlessly as Eintracht Frankfurt did against Bayern in the 2018 DFB Cup final.

Borussia Dortmund missed the opportunity again.

Favre sparked trainer discussion

The fact that a second defeat this year was enough to fuel the coaching question in Dortmund says a lot about Lucien Favre’s position at BVB. It was not the journalists who sparked the discussion – but the trainer himself with his nebulous statements.

If he meant it in such a way that the demands grow over his head, his days at BVB are numbered. If not, it does not clearly show what the misunderstanding is: Favre is not clear. No top club can afford the second with a senior employee.

It is said that Borussia Dortmund is already in contact with Niko Kovac. There is no confirmation for this at the hour. The development would be logical. The former Bayern coach knows how to become a champion. And with Eintracht Frankfurt, see above, he showed too clearly how to show Bavaria the teeth.

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