Champions League BVB: “We still have to do it once. Then we can heal a bit.” | EUROtoday

Nuri Sahin needed to take a while off the clock. The BVB coach known as Ayman Azhil over shortly earlier than the ultimate whistle and substituted him for Maximilian Beier. Azhil normally performs for Borussia Dortmund’s second crew. The 23-year-old benefited from BVB’s harm woes and celebrated his debut within the Champions League towards Sturm Graz. Together with Borussia’s core squad, he was in a position to rejoice a hard-fought 1-0 win.

Sahin needed to do with out 9 gamers towards Graz and despatched an emergency eleven onto the pitch towards the Austrian champions. The power dwindled with each minute, however Joker Donyell Malen redeemed the crew together with his objective within the eighty fifth minute.

“We created a lot of chances to score. In the end, I don’t care how we get the three points. We finally kept a clean sheet again. It’s huge for the offenses, they have to make every play right now and go through so many routes. You noticed in the second half that we only played against Leipzig on Saturday evening,” mentioned BVB defender Nico Schlotterbeck.

“They’re at the limit”

“We had to make it 1-0 earlier, but we couldn’t do that. At Graz the strength simply didn’t diminish. When I see Julian Brandt, when I see Serhou Guirassy – they are at their limit. As a coach you have to exercise a bit of sensitivity. We have to go one more time. Then we can recover a bit. Then we can say: Things are really getting started.”

Next Saturday BVB has to play Mainz 05 within the league. Sahin hopes that at the very least the injured full-back Julian Ryerson will rejoin the crew. After the sport in Mainz, the league will pause for 2 weeks due to the Nations League. Enough time for BVB to filter its hospital.