After the draw against Heidenheim, BVB verbally attacked itself – “wild” and “stupid”

Even Frank Schmidt suspected evil. “We’re 2-0 down after a quarter of an hour. A lot of people thought it was all about the height,” said the 1. FC Heidenheim coach after Friday’s Bundesliga game at Borussia Dortmund.

As with the flattering 1-0 win over 1. FC Köln at the start of the season and the 1-1 draw at VfL Bochum last week, Dortmund found themselves swimming more and more in the second half. The consequence: Heidenheim earned their first Bundesliga point through Eren Dinkci (61st) and Tim Kleindienst (82nd, penalty kick).

A game that really hit goal scorer Brandt. “We mostly beat ourselves in the second half,” said the national player.

At 2-1, they were “safe on the ball”, said Brandt, referring to Marius Wolf’s unnecessary loss of the ball (61′), the development of the 2-2 when attacker Sébastien Haller outlined his opponent Jan-Niklas Beste in his own penalty area (76th), was just “stupid”. Conclusion: “Goals like that break our necks.”

BVB made “wild, wild mistakes,” said Brandt. “You have to score the third goal, kill the game,” said the offensive star: “We have to learn to protect the ball better.”

All approaches that coach Edin Terzic would also sign. He was so pissed off that he almost denied BVB’s suitability for the championship. “That doesn’t happen to top teams – it happens to us repeatedly,” he said disillusioned at “DAZN”.

It is “difficult to explain the whole thing”. After a good first half, BVB “completely gave up the game” and “let it get wild”.

After the compensation, his team only acted headlessly. “Even when there were twelve minutes of stoppage time, we wanted to get in front of the goal quickly, quickly, quickly with every action,” criticized the 40-year-old: “These are things that shouldn’t happen to us if we want to have really big ambitions .”

BVB once again “showed a face that we have shown in previous years. That makes us very dissatisfied. Before the season we made a resolution not to lose as many points as in the first half of the season. And now it’s happening again.”

Ultimately, BVB could even be happy to have taken a point. “In the end you have to think twice that it’s even 2-2,” said Brandt, before throwing another question into the room: “I don’t know if security is more important in some heads when you’re at home against a promoted player plays.” It almost seemed so.