Bundesliga
BVB coach Terzic: “Home with complete frustration”
Frustrated: BVB coach Edin Terzic (M) and newcomer Niclas Füllkrug. photo
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Even the first three competitive games were not convincing, but the 2-2 win against newly promoted Heidenheim after a 2-0 lead is a shock for Borussia Dortmund. Coach Edin Terzic warns his team.
“If we don’t stop it, it will be very difficult to celebrate something at some point,” said Terzic after the frustrating 2-2 lead after a quick 2-0 lead against league newcomers 1. FC Heidenheim.
Terzic explicitly recalled the previous season, when BVB gave up too many points in the first half of the season, fought their way up in the second half and then lost the title on the last day of the game with a 2-2 win against Mainz. “We felt how painful it is when you don’t manage to catch up on what was lost in the first half of the season,” said the 40-year-old: “So we’ve made it our goal to start well this time, that we not dropping so many points to avoid having to start catching up again. And now it’s happening to us again.”
“Home with complete frustration”
He had already seen “some signs” in the first half, which was actually sovereign, said Terzic and recalled “ball losses with the heel 30 meters in front of his own goal”. His team “completely gave up the structure and the position discipline. In the end we mostly beat ourselves”. Building up the opponent like that and making mistakes like that are “just things that shouldn’t happen to us if we want to have really big ambitions. Things like that don’t happen to top teams. They happen to us again and again. We’re going home with complete frustration. And then we will learn the lessons from it, with every consequence.”
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