Kehl and Kovač were all honest in their quotations after the game

Borussia Dortmund summarized another defeat in the Bundesliga this season after a painful defeat against Leipzig. The bulls defeated the black-and-yellows in a game that was characterized by critical defensive mistakes and missed possibilities of BVB. After the game was over, Borussia Dortmund Manager Niko Kovač was uncomplicated about his opinion about the result:

“This is a disaster and not the standard that I have determined for myself.”

Niko Kovač

Despite a below average first half in which the bulls dominated in terms of possession and chance, the second half of BVB was an enormous upgrade, even if Opendas used to do two for homeowners. The black-and-yellows had scored a 3.06xg and no goals in this game when the Croatian manager also commented on his team's wasted opportunities to achieve a comeback from Leipzig's 2-Nil lead:

“It is incredible. I can't explain it either. The ball would simply not go in today. The fact is that we do not score the gates and left the place today as an unfortunate loser. We had to score at least three or four goals.”

Niko Kovač

Kovač was not only disappointed with the lack of goals, but his record as a BVB manager in the league was nothing more than lackluster. Dortmund now has more defeats than victories in the current Bundesliga season, while Kovač has lost four games and won two games against pages such as Union Berlin and St. Pauli:

“The recording is a disaster that has to be said very clearly. So this is not my own ambition. We have to win games first. That's not what it is all about. We cannot talk about the others who play for us.”

Niko Kovač

Despite the record of the Poor League, Niko Kovač tried to find the positive statements of 2-zero defeats against Leipzig, which mainly emphasized the team's efforts in the second half:

“I still think that was a good performance today, especially in the second half after the difficult game in Lille. We did a comeback in the Champions League, but we didn't do that in the Bundesliga.”

Niko Kovač

How did Kovač find paths to pay such a defeat? It is a little difficult to explain, especially because the team was too dependent on long balls and individual games to create opportunities against Leipzig. BVB Sporting Director Sebastian Kehl had his own thoughts about the overall performance:

“I don't know if we were clearly inferior in the first half, but we didn't play a good game. The second half was really, very good in terms of the way we played, our football, our fighting spirit and our running.”

Sebastian Kehl

A more confident perspective of Leipzig's Matchup Indeed, but there is still no explicit criticism of the team's management this season and the current standards according to which the club has prescribed itself. After this weekend, BVB will have the international break to group again, which apparently is not Kehl's primary wish:

“We will then try to bring everyone back together relatively quickly in the second week of the national team and then prepare for the home game against Mainz. But to be honest, I would prefer that we continue to play because I have the feeling that we improve in many areas.”

Sebastian Kehl

I am not aware of what Kehl refers to when he says that the team “further improves in many areas”. Nevertheless, Borussia Dortmund will have a boom-or bust type weeks after the break, in which the Schwarz-und-yellows Freiburg and Bavaria Münich and FC Barcelona will play twice for the quarter of the Champions League. A few weeks that may end the efforts for European football in the next season and ended a season 2024/2025, which seemed to be intended for failure.