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No, he is not blaming Erling Haaland for not being able to use the great opportunity in stoppage time, said Lucien Favre.

In principle, he does not accuse a player of that.

Then Favre paused for a moment.

As if he were considering whether to add the following or whether he should rather refrain from it.

"But he did not move enough, did not enough runs in depth," said the coach of Borussia Dortmund.

Favre actually wanted to leave it at that in the switch with the ZDF sports studio.

But the reporter's skilful follow-up did not allow it.

So it was "not yet a world star has fallen from the sky," noted the.

Favre couldn't help but agree.

"Exactly," he replied.

You have a hard time criticizing Haaland at Borussia Dortmund.

Because something is quickly constructed from it.

That became clear after the 1: 2 (0: 1) defeat against 1.FC Cologne.

BVB, for whom things have been going so well in the past few weeks, lost this game not only because of Haaland, but also because of him.

For the Norwegian striker, who scored 23 times in 22 games for Dortmund, not much went this time - as was the case for the entire team.

"We gave the people of Cologne too much time"

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“We are very, very disappointed.

It's hard to accept that we're losing to Cologne at home, ”said Favre after a game in which much of what had recently distinguished his team could not be seen when seven out of eight games were convincingly won.

The Dortmunders sometimes fell into well-known patterns from previous years: The attack game was static, sometimes without imagination.

"We did not move enough and gave the people of Cologne too much time to stand up," criticized Favre: "We never found the solution."

So there were two standard situations that were decisive for the game - which were amazingly similar in their execution.

In the ninth minute, Cologne's Ondrej Duda hit a corner on the near post, Marius Wolf easily jumped over Julian Brandt and headed the ball onto the long post.

There Ellyes Skhiri stood free and pushed in at the shortest distance.

In the 60th minute, Duda hit a corner on the near post, Wolf easily jumped Brandt, extended the ball with a head on the far post.

There Skhiri was again free and pushed in.

No, you haven't slipped in line: The hits were identical, after Dortmund made identical mistakes, which makes it a little embarrassing for BVB.

Favre over two identical Cologne goals against standards

In the 1: 2 home defeat against 1. FC Köln, both goals conceded by Dortmund came after standard situations.

For BVB coach Lucien Favre, both goals against the outsider are difficult to accept.

Source: Stats Perform News

It becomes even more embarrassing when you take into account what Roman Bürki said.

"These were rehearsed standard situations that we actually looked at in advance, but for whatever reason we couldn't defend," said the BVB goalkeeper.

“We have to try to defend the first ball.

It can't be that Wolf gets on and can extend it, ”said Bürki, who was blameless for the goals but is burned: Five of the nine goals that Dortmund conceded in the current season came after dormant balls.

After the Dortmund defensive had stabilized in the past few weeks, an old predetermined breaking point broke open again.

This annoyed Favre.

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The Swiss were even more bothered by the lack of speed and the significantly reduced willingness to run.

The Dortmund team ran an average of almost nine kilometers less than the Cologne team without a win in 18 consecutive Bundesliga games.

And that, although Favre had started the rotary machine: Five new players were in the starting line-up.

But the offensive in particular seemed unspirated.

The team couldn't be tired, but Marco Reus and Julian Brandt lacked the speed of thought, and Jadon Sancho was also lacking.

“We had far too few concrete chances to score, and sometimes we played too slowly.

The movement was missing, ”said Favre.

It only got a little better after Thorgan Hazard, who scored the next goal in the 74th minute, as well as Giovanni Reyna and 16-year-old Youssoufa Moukoko.

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But Haaland was a symbol of the weak overall appearance.

In the first 45 minutes of play, for example, he was only on the ball seven times (once when kick-off after the 0: 1), as seldom as any other player on the field.

He gave his only shot on goal in the first half in the 26th minute of the game.

In contrast to the 5: 2 at Hertha BSC last weekend, when he scored four goals, and the 3: 0 in the Champions League against Club Brugge on Tuesday, when he scored twice, he hardly had any space.

But he did little to create it either.

Favre then openly criticized this - also at the risk that this may not suit the Norwegian, to whom many hymns of praise have recently been sung.

The fact that he got a perfect pass from Reus to the main leg in stoppage time, free and within a short distance to Cologne, but still pushed past, Favre did not criticize.

Something like that just happens, said the trainer.

He ends up in the net, just not his shot.

Erling Haaland missed the big chance to equalize in stoppage time

Source: dpa / Martin Meissner

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However, Haaland's cheering has been bothering him for a long time.

Although he is aware of his extraordinary abilities, he is bothered by the fact that the impressive development of the 20-year-old is always described with superlatives.

After all, this has already resulted in him becoming an object of speculation associated with Real Madrid, Manchester City and Liverpool FC.

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Lothar Matthäus said that while Haaland made the right move to move to BVB last January, he was already outlining his next career leap.

"BVB is one of the top 10 teams in Europe, but there are five or six better teams - and Haaland will serve there at some point," said the record national player on "Sky." Favre doesn't like this talk.

He is therefore all the more anxious to ground Haaland.

This also includes criticizing him if the coach deems it necessary.

It is his job to sharpen the senses of a player who, with all his class, is not as advanced as the past few weeks could have led you to believe.

Next Wednesday there is the next probation opportunity for Haaland and BVB against Lazio Rome in the Champions League.

That will show what Haaland will do with his coach's first public criticism.

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