Borussia Dortmund have a direction before the end of the week: First, the concentration in the Champions League is on the lot at Atletico Madrid. And then there is the FC Bayern Munich comes to Dortmund.
Not a few Fans of Borussia Dortmund, hope you can take this journey in a short period of time. Madrid is a wonderful city in which one travels anyway. But, above all things, then, if the club must compete in a competitive game. On Tuesday, the BVB play – supported by a wide range BVB-fans – first group game in the Champions League with Atletico Madrid (kick-off 21 PM CEST, starting at 20.45 at the DW live Ticker for this).
But in the “Wanda Metropolitano”, the new stadium, the Rojiblancos will be on 1. June 2019 the final of the European “king’s class” held. And so, as the season the team of coach Lucien Favre so far is gone, not to be trusted, few followers of the Team, that it can earn a further appearance in the Spanish capital, in the pleasant summer heat prevails.
Zorc: “The sting is deep”
All three of their previous group games have been decided in Dortmund. At FC Bruges (0:1), and against AS Monaco (3:0) as well as in the first leg against Atletico (4:0) there were three counters, with the result that the BVB could already do with a draw in Madrid in the first knockout round fix. Bruges and Monaco would be in the same time, the encounter is also a draw disconnect, the Dortmund in the round of the last 16 already secure.
With eight goals in the first three games, Dortmund are extremely accurate. Only Paris Saint-Germain and FC Barcelona (both 10 goals) have so far met in the group stage more often. Not least for this reason, the Dortmund allowed to compete confidently in Madrid.
However, Atletico will burn players out, the disgrace in the Dortmund stadium to eradicate. “Atletico lost the first leg 0:4. The will take the game to one hundred percent,” said the BVB midfielder Thomas Delaney. “The sting is deep at Atletico,” added BVB sporting Director Michael Zorc.
Important week for BVB
Dortmund’s midfielder Thomas Delaney Header
The match in Madrid, however, is only the prelude to a week that it has for Dortmund. On Saturday night, the BVB receives the currently struggling record Champions FC Bayern Munich. A game of the BVB know but still don’t want to. “We would do well to focus entirely on Atletico,” said Dortmund managing Director Hans-Joachim Watzke.
So far, it has managed the Dortmund players always to concentrate on the upcoming task. But very apart you can’t separate the two directly successive Highlights it seems to be. Both games together somehow hang together. “This is a beautiful and important week for us. We do well against Atletico, it becomes even easier against Bayern,” said Delaney, and used it to produce the connection between Champions League and Bundesliga.
To the contrary, the negative case, the Danish midfielder mentioned. Finally, the Dortmund team is full at the moment, only self-confidence.