An entertaining and emotional duel between Schalke and Dortmund ends goalless. Nevertheless, players and Fans to offer a great Show, but not all parties Involved are satisfied.
Lucien Favre looks annoyed. The 61-Year-old is gently by his press Secretary, but determined through the interview zone of the Schalke Arena pushed. Seven Interviews with various TV stations on the BVB coach completed after the 0:0 in the Derby against Schalke. The questions of the waiting journalists are often the same: Why has stagnated the development of its team? A response by the Swiss is not on this evening also. And this annoys the perfectionist of course. “We have to push far back and were too slow,” said Favre. “We have only started in the second half to play football and chances created. Therefore, we must accept the result.”
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Favre and Zorc had demanded after the bad appearance in the Champions League with Inter Milan, more commitment and intensity from the players. “That was not enough,” criticized Favre his Team after the game, which had not dominated the BVB, but the Schalke team. “You can see that the ease is missing, the Playful, the distinguishes us,” said BVB captain Marco Reus: “This is currently there. However, it must be our claim, since re-added.”
Favre: “A tough game”
A good two hours earlier. It is loud. Deafening loud. In the North curve, to sing and to jump thousands of Schalke. In the southeastern part of the Arena to try far less and mostly in yellow clad Dortmund, however, anzusingen. In vain. The mood of the 95. Bundesliga Derby between FC Schalke and Borussia Dortmund are already far ahead of the kickoff, why it is for both camps, the “game of games”. It, the atmosphere is spine-tingling.
The game of the games for the Fans from both Camps
The game is on. The emotions in the stands transferred to the court, it is a very nervous game is developed with intense battles. The Team of coach David Wagner, the guests on our nerves. Schalke set the BVB under pressure and returns to Dortmund are rarely even have time for a well-structured building to develop the game. “It was a very tough game for us,” said Borussia coach Lucien Favre after the game. “Schalke played very well pressed and hard. You have done really well.”
Schalke’s development continues
The intense game is also registered on the stands. It crackles. And also the Fans can be contagious. Proud and thunderous applause from the Blue-and-White followers will be presented a Banner, which was sewn from many stolen Fan-paraphernalia of Dortmund together. Technically top, content in addition.
On the court, it is still three points. The victory in the “most important game of the year”. But Schalke will not make it one’s own Superiority into goals to be transformed. It remains at 0:0. “It was a feisty Derby,” said David Wagner. The coach of the Royal Blues was delighted with the performance of his boys, which made it “super.”
Nevertheless, Wagner was not sure whether to be pleased or annoyed. “We had the bigger and also more opportunities. Accordingly, the feeling is a bit ambivalent about something,” said the Coach. “It was but a step in the right direction, because it went against Borussia Dortmund.”