Abysmal performance. We have no defense. Our attack is non-existent. The only one trying to do something is Burki, but all in vain with what is going on in front of him.
Pretty shameful display. Would have been nice having a defense on the level of Freiburg. We give them too much space and make too many mistakes. And that is something we often saw after the winter break. If you can't get much done in offense, at least make it as hard as possible in defense.
You got the first two almost right, hopefully the third will follow. But we'd need much luck on our side and help from other teams to do a much better than us.
I thought that in the 1st half of the season we conceded the least amount of goals from set pieces. In this game every set piece is practically equal to a goal. And the Gnabry is heading a goal in while being defended by Akanji. What the hell is going on! That can only be psychological.
This is just painful to watch. The team has no leader, bar Reus and this is visible from outer space during the second half. We want to win the Bundesliga, we want to compete with the big boys in the CL, but this is just impossible without leaders and most importantly - without quality. Are you watching, Watzke? Are you watching, Zorc? Is this something you are proud of? Your philosophy on how to run BVB is a failure. While Bayern are buying world champions, we buy mediocre players, sprinkle some young talent and hope for the best. This is not a sustainable strategy for a successful club, this is a strategy for a mid-table club, with sporadic bursts of greatness. And regrettably, this is what we have become thanks to your idiotic actions and lack of vision for this club. The only reason we are still in the title race is because of some mistakes from Bayern, plain and simple. Until those two clowns are replaced by people who have ambition, Dortmund is doomed to fall even further.
Disappointing game, not only because of the result but even more so because of the way the team presented itself. Helpless and lifeless. But it's not like the last weeks gave us any reason to go to Munich with much confidence. If anything, enough time has passed to address the same issues we see again and again. Final games: Mainz, Freiburg, Schalke, Bremen, Düsseldorf, Gladbach.
If you want to talk about mistakes, Dortmund had a 9 point lead in January and the crucial mistakes were made against Nuremburg, Augsburg and Dusseldorf. We are 1 point behind now, if we can avoid losing our heads over a bad game you'll realize it doesnt matter if we lose 1-0 or 10-0 in Munich today unless we want to attempt the improbable task of beating Bayern's goal difference.
It does matter! If we lost by 1 goal they will know they just beat us, and it could have been a tie or a win for us. In turn, other teams know that both us and Bayern are on a similar level and they can be more motivated to beat them, just as they can get results against us. And for our players, they'd know where toe-to-toe with Bayern and keep pushing them till the end of the season. Psychology and pride matter. This is the type of games that make me want to retire from cheering on football.
I agree that it was a leadership problem for this game (besides of course the big picture problem that @thisisthelife mentioned) Whoever is/are the leader(s) of this team failed to get the others to focus and play with freedom and intensity. Sure they have better quality than us, but not to the point of a 5-0 defeat.
Understandable, you are a fan. The players gotta keep their heads screwed on and focused on winning all the remaining games in case Bayern slips like they did versus Freiburg, instead of thinking "what if we lost by 1 goal" and what could have been. Shit day at the office move on, focus on getting max pts versus bottom tier opponents.
It's the only thing they can do at this point. But it's much harder this way. I wish they had also kept their heads screwed after conceding 1, 2, 3 or 4 goals today. Anyways, I'll still keep hoping for Bayern to drop points, bc it seems that's the only way we can win it.
Bayern can drop points only if they feel demotivated as their aging and injury prone squad is still far superior than other substandard Bundesliga teams
We need to win all our matches and Bayern need to at least tie one of theirs. The entire squad except for Burki and Weigl were decrepit. Reus heatmap is an embarrassment. Witsel didn't show up. Delaney didn't do anything. This squad didn't even look like they wanted to take a 1-0 loss back home. Lucien Favre cannot motivate this team at all since the winter break. I wouldn't be surprised if Schalke take points off of us.
This loss is on Favre. He set the team up terribly, picked the wrong players and was trying to play for a draw. He did the same thing at Tottenham and got a similar result. Why play your best player out of position? Why did he play Reus as a striker? Why play Dahoud as a 10 whn he has failed there every time. Delaney and Witsel have proven themselves to be average. They don't have the ability to compete against elite teams. Why did they play? Not much can be done about Zagadou being inexperienced and making mistakes. When you send a team out to play for a draw, this is what happens.
If we win all our remaining games, I think we have a very good chance of winning the league. Leipzig away is an extremely tough game.
You didn't watch the game. The outfield players couldn't string more than 3 passes together. They made Bayern look like Barcelona.
Delaney and Witsel can't pass under pressure and they don't give enough options. Larsen is just a very average player. Dahoud has no idea how to play 10 and make himself available. It was a team begging to be destroyed. We need to play Weigl and Dahoud in the middle, with Raphael on the left for the rest of the season.
Interested to know if Dahoud's fans here think he played well enough today to convince LF to hand him a permanent spot in midfield? Did not look to be the case as much as we all want him to be the new Gundogan.
No he was poor today, but he was set up to fail. Dahoud doesn't yet have the qualities or the experience to be a good 10. There are actually very few young players that do and Dahoud is even less experienced than his age would suggest. Dahoud's qualities are for playing a 2 man midfield. He has unbelievable energy, is good technically and can pass quickly. His biggest weakness is he makes sloppy passes and his final ball is poor. Yet he results show he clearly brings more to the team than his negatives. Every great performance against a top team has been with Dahoud. In fact in the two best wins of the season, he changed both matches ie Atletico and Bayern.