Terzic on the key to the new BVB defensive strength: “A behavior, not an exception”
Edin Terzic
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Edin Terzic implements a defensive focus at BVB. The trainer wants to see this exemplified by everything.
Borussia Dortmund currently has one of the best defenses in the Bundesliga. This is due to Edin Terzic’s credo. The coach calls for a passionate defense that applies to everyone and is the focus.
There are a few teams that have already scored more goals than BVB with eight goals in five games. On the other hand, black and yellow share together Union Berlin but also the best defense to date behind FC Bayern (three goals conceded): Only four goals were conceded in this young season. They have not conceded a goal three times – in the previous season it took 22 matchdays to do so.
Accordingly, the team can sometimes afford to win duels with just one or two goals. A pattern that works. After all, the second place in the table is tied with the current leader Sc freiburg occupied, a first exclamation mark.
Under Terzic, BVB has fewer mistakes to iron out: Defensive also relieves the offensive
This pattern has changed. In recent years and also in the previous season under Marco Rose, Borussia conceded noticeably more goals on average. As a result, the offensive had to be all the more profitable to compensate for this disadvantage. Logically, this bet did not always work out, which was inevitably accompanied by one or the other point loss and many a defeat.
Edin Terzic would like to avoid this scenario as far as possible. Noisy Ruhr news the many goals conceded were also an issue in the season analysis with Marco Rose. He then had to go and Terzic took his post.
On the one side of the new stability are the commitments of Nico Schlotterbeck, Niklas Süle and Salih Özcan. They are part of the defensive focus that the coach in Dortmund wants to make bigger again.
On the other hand: A credo that Terzic carries into the team. “We want to prove that this is a behavior and not an exception,” he stated Thursday (via RN). “It’s the way we play football, act as a team and want to win.”
By that he meant that the focus must first and foremost be on defending one’s own box. And that’s what every single player is supposed to do. So far he has managed to let players who normally come from their creativity on the ball and their goal risk work hard. They defend together so that they can then attack together. Like this and not the other way around.
Dortmund takes “a very big step”
“When you see how well we managed to defend from zero, how compactly we defended as a whole team, how much energy we put into giving few chances – we’ve taken a very big step in the right direction “Terzic knows about the progress that has already been made.
Özcan can certainly be seen as a role model. While he publicly emphasizes that he prefers to set a successful tackle that prevents a goal from being conceded than to prepare a goal himself, he lives this statement on the pitch.
And the fans pay their tribute: in the 1-0 win against Hoffenheim last matchday, where the result in itself is unusual for Dortmund, the tackles, ball wins and blocked shots were rewarded with loud applause. Both at the front, where Anthony Modeste also worked, and at the back, where Schlotterbeck got tackled almost every ball.
It could become a very important basis to make this season a successful one. So far, Terzic has done well with this “behavior”, as he often emphasizes.
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