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Erling Haaland's celebrations are a science in themselves.
It made the star striker of Borussia Dortmund even better known than he already was that he celebrated many of his goals in the meditation seat for a long time.
That was also obvious, after all, he does yoga regularly.
Then he amazed by holding his hand next to his ear, spreading his fingers and turning his hand - in homage to his idol Luca Toni.
Now the Norwegian came up with two new variants during a game.
In Dortmund's 3-1 (0-0) win at RB Leipzig, he celebrated his first goal by shaping an eagle with his arms in front of his chest.
After his second he let his left arm circling wildly.
“I think the first was for Axel Witsel.
I don't know the second one, ”explained BVB captain Marco Reus.
Only the hint of the Sky reporter that it could have been a greeting to Haaland's sister, who had her birthday, ended the guesswork.
“Ah, that's possible,” said Reus.
It is not one of the favorite disciplines of the 31-year-old veteran to analyze the skipping actions of young colleagues.
For Reus it was more important that his team presented themselves as anything but youthful and immature in the pursuit duel, but finally as he and Mats Hummels (32) had wished.
The team had to be more consistent, Reus had demanded.
You have to "play more adult," said Hummels.
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The statements by Hummels and Reus coincided with what sports director Michael Zorc and licensed player manager Sebastian Kehl had previously explained.
It was a concerted action by BVB, a series of deliberately set New Year sermons by leaders and executives.
According to the motto: Please finally more dedication, greater commitment and fighting spirit - only then can you succeed in playing for the title again.
After the game, Terzic celebrated the groundbreaking victory over RB Leipzig with his defense chief Mats Hummels
Source: dpa / Jan Woitas
The intended effect could be seen on Saturday.
The Dortmund team was even more united than last weekend in the 2-0 win over Wolfsburg.
They allowed the Leipzigers, until then with only one defeat one of the most stable teams in the Bundesliga, next to nothing.
They stood compactly, consistently ran to the rooms and played without frills.
That wasn't spectacular, at least in the first half.
But that wasn't the primary goal either.
"We knew it was going to be an extremely important game and that it would decide which way it would go this year," said coach Edin Terzic.
Therefore, both the result and the performance are a good signal - including the performance in the first half, in which his team remained without a notable goal finish.
“We made a total of 112 bad passes, 110 of them felt in the first half.
But we did very well defensively, ”said the 38-year-old.
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Terzic, who has only been head coach at BVB since December 13, always emphasizes that he has learned a lot from Lucien Favre, but is still very different from the experienced Favre (63), whom he inherited.
Like the Swiss, he is not out for game control and risk avoidance.
Above all, Terzic demands intensity, constant attacking the opponent - and when things get tough, it is also allowed to simply knock the ball away.
Can now fits into the system again
It's a physically demanding but easy to understand philosophy.
Maybe that's why the team internalized them relatively quickly.
"In a top game you always have to be aggressive," said Emre Can, who also admitted that the first half was "not so nice".
“But in the second half we played the ball forward vertically.
And everyone knows that we have Erling Haaland in front.
He's extremely fast, ”said the national player, who was substituted on for the injured Axel Witsel after half an hour.
An injury-related change, but a more symbolic one: The determined Can fits better with the new style of play than the filigree, pass-safe Witsel.
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After the change, BVB actually presented itself as unleashed.
With the certainty of defensive stability, the Dortmunders pushed out earlier from behind, the Leipzigers attacked early.
They had expected everything - but apparently not that the enemy would fight them with the strategic means that is considered their very own strength: Aggressive pressing, always accompanied by loud commands from the sidelines.
“Come, come, come” and “go on, men”, Terzic shouted in from the outside - and was heard: It was real pressing waves that choked the people in Leipzig.
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When the ball was captured, it went quickly and was actually spectacular: At 1-0 (55th minute), Haaland refueled on the right, put a sharp inward, Reus extended his heel into the run of Jadon Sancho, who completed with a placed shot.
The second hit, the first from Haaland, was a mixture of power, dynamism and sophistication.
Haaland dribbled and fought his way against five opponents, placed on Sancho, followed by a series of short passes that completely confused the Leipzig defense - while Haaland took off to the far post and was able to head a cross from Sancho (71.).
With the third goal, Reus, who showed his best performance of the season, showed his keen eye when he put a ball through to Haaland with millimeter precision (84th).
They were magic gates.
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"In the last few weeks we had been missing the ease and magic," said Terzic.
He would have addressed that.
But apparently he did it in a different way than Favre, who always warned to avoid mistakes in phases in which the team got out of step.
The opponent should only be attacked if the probability of actually being able to conquer the ball is almost one hundred percent.
And if this style of play, which is inevitably the case, results in fewer scoring chances, then the precision must be worked on in the exploitation.
Terzic takes a different approach.
"It makes sense that in training we don't start practicing goals with the hoe or overhead kicks, but work on the intensity," he said.
Everything else will come by itself.
Can Terzic stay?
The team seems to like this more robust approach.
The fifth win was achieved in the sixth competitive game under Terzic.
Where the new coach can lead BVB is still open.
It is about "getting the most out of it", he said, referring to the coming weeks, in which it will be against other direct competitions such as Leverkusen and Mönchengladbach.
A reliable prognosis as to whether Terzic will be permanently successful with his type of football will not be possible until weeks, maybe months.
Only then will a tendency be discernible as to whether Terzic might even have a realistic chance of remaining head coach beyond the summer.
Although many of the fans and the club want it.
After all, the football that Terzic has in mind is reminiscent of Jürgen Klopp's.
Terzic has his own way of looking at things.
"I'm sure that I'll be the head coach at BVB next week," he said with a smile in the ZDF's "Current Sports Studio" when asked about a possible long-term future at BVB.
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