“I believe that Sahin is partly to blame”

BVB imagined the start of the season in the Bundesliga to be completely different. With only ten points after six parties, the club is only in seventh place. League leaders FC Bayern can already move six points clear with a win against Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday evening.

Dortmund’s strong performances in the Champions League took a bit of a back seat. I am STAHLWERK double pass at SPORT1 After the 1-2 defeat at Union Berlin, there is already criticism from experts about Nuri Sahin.

SPORT1-Expert Stefan Effenberg sees mistakes in BVB’s new coach. “We said before the season that BVB had bought heavily and had a strong axis with Kobel, Süle, Schlotterbeck and many more.” I thought that was stability. But if you constantly change this axis, you won’t get any stability. You can just see that. There’s probably a bit of security there. They are unable to deliver the quality that they are capable of. “I believe that Sahin is partially to blame for his constant changes,” said the former Bayern captain.

Effenberg used Bayer Leverkusen’s championship season and also Bayern coach Vincent Kompany’s start to the season as an example of how things could be better: “You had an axis with Xhaka, Boniface and Wirtz at Leverkusen in the previous season.” At Dortmund I will tried too much – see Sabitzer, who is sometimes in the center, then again on the side. And it’s always about absolute trust. At Bayern, Kompany does this so well with Upamecano and Kim in central defense, who are not without mistakes either. And Sahin has to do that at BVB too.”

The 56-year-old Effenberg also criticizes the Dortmund players, in whom he lacks mentality: “When the last goal is conceded, everyone shifts responsibility to the other.” Nobody will actively intervene. There is simply no willingness to clear the ball. “You can see the Dortmund dilemma that you don’t want to take responsibility yourself,” said Effenberg.

Former BVB champion player Steffen Freund also identified similar problems to Effenberg with the current Dortmund team.

“If the hierarchy isn’t there, then you have problems when a team like Union attacks high.” And they couldn’t solve the one-on-one situations either. I think Dortmund needs to regain its team spirit above all – Leverkusen did that last year. That’s where the coach is called upon,” says the ex-national player, who won the Champions League with BVB in 1997.

However, the 54-year-old also emphasized that the team is not the only construction site in Dortmund: “You also have a new board, a new coach, that takes time.” Against this background, there are “a lot of fluctuations”. normal: “It was already like that under Edin Terzic, actually it’s been like that for the last three years.” This unrest in large, traditional clubs creates a dynamic that is dangerous.”

Former professional footballer and current presenter Valentina Maceri also criticized BVB in principle.

Maceri has the feeling “that things aren’t right internally in the team.” And Nuri Sahin doesn’t yet have the experience and therefore the charisma that a team like this needs now.” Sahin’s lack of “the aura, the energy, that Vincent Kompany at Bayern. “I also miss the anger about such games and the hunger to do better.”

Freund contradicted at this point: “If anyone has fire, it is Nuri Sahin.” He has the motivation and the eagerness to help the team.” The coach gives things the way, but the players have to have the ambition implement it, and do it with mentality.”