The error of the young defense off, and the front enough goals to achieve the Plan of the BVB in the eighth-final second leg against Tottenham is clear. Coach Lucien Favre oscillates between optimism and real hope.
“Everything is possible,” says Lucien Favre and smiles a lot. The journalists at the press conference before the Champions League return leg against Tottenham chuckle with him. The situation in Dortmund is actually sad: the first leg the Spurs ended 0:3, and leaves little hopes for more to come. The 1:2 defeat in Augsburg last Friday is just the latest blow to the neck. Favre’s “Everything is possible”statement referred to the question of whether he will muster on Tuesday next to Mario Götze also Paolo Alcacer from the start, in order to strengthen the Offensive. Although the BVB needs a minimum of four-hit, not be allowed to collect in return but not.
Young and talented, but not always, saddle
It was the defense that concerned about the Fans and probably the Coach, Favre is the most head. 14 let play goals against in the last seven duty the Dortmunder gloss fade. Responsible mainly individual error of the young defender.
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The 20-year-old Achraf Hakimi was repeatedly in the focus: when in the DFB Cup against Werder Bremen, he allowed Martin Harnik unchallenged for the late equaliser rising highest to head in. Against Augsburg a worse fail led pass for the second goal. The First beneficiary of his team-mate, Dan-Axel Zagadou with a failed sliding tackle. “I don’t have to pull myself together huge that I ripped off someone’s head”, grumbled goalkeeper Roman Bürki after the Augsburg game. Manager Michael Zorc sound no less frustrated: “These avoidable mistakes we make, may not happen. Of course, it is part of a price of the youth, but also a question of concentration. The last greed, to make the goal and defend this brute will, ultimately, have been missing me.”
Sphinx Favre wants to play clever
The necessary yaw Marco Reus, it seems to be lacking. “In our stadium were already completed some of the games in which history was written,” says Reus, with a view to the duel with the Spurs, “we are able to create the impossible. We believe in the whole team.”
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Tottenham is also not just a terrifying Form to Dortmund. From the last three matches the team of the Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino took just a point. However, he will be able to play against BVB again, national striker Harry Kane has. Kane by his team-mates in this duel: “A better Chance to reach the quarter-finals, we will never have.”
Although the odds for Dortmund are not good, so Favre does not want to give up this dream. You have to play very, very clever, he stresses, and adds: “everything is possible”, he means explicitly.