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Marco Reus could no longer contain himself.
He stuck to his thesis, which is not new, but is still mostly advocated by football fans rather than professionals.
"Foul", said Reus, when this scene from the 88th minute was played to him again in an interview with Sky: Borussia Dortmund built up the game, Emre Can led the ball - then he was checked by Leroy Sané and went down.
Referee Marco Fritz let play on.
The result was the move that - albeit only more than half a minute later - led to 3-2 for Bayern.
It was probably the decisive goal in the top Bundesliga game.
“I'll tell you quite honestly: If that had been at Bayern, he would have whistled one hundred percent.
That's the way it is, ”said Reus.
Moderator Patrick Wasserziehr asked: “Why?” Reus defiantly: “Because that's just the way it is.” The BVB captain said he didn't want to talk about a “Bayern bonus”, but he still didn't let Marco Fritz get away.
"For me, the referee didn't have any balls to whistle," Reus said in another interview.
"Sané duel was a clear foul game"
Dortmund lost a 2-0 win against FC Bayern and lost 4-2.
Before the 2: 3 Emre Can went down after a duel with Leroy Sané, a game-decisive situation for BVB coach Edin Terzic.
Source: Stats Perform News
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"Eggs", in the sense of the definition given by Oliver Kahn ("Eggs - we need eggs"), is a good keyword with regard to BVB's appearance in the German "Clasico." The team of coach Edin Terzic wanted to show that they were can play bravely and courageously, also to correct the devastating impression she had made at many previous games in Munich.
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It succeeded - but only for 25 minutes.
"We started well, but then we stopped trying to play football," said Emre Can - for whom, in contrast to Reus and Terzic, it was not so clear that he had been fouled before the 2: 3 was.
"He can whistle that, but he doesn't have to," said the defensive all-rounder.
For Can, the scene wasn't the biggest upset.
What worried the international was rather that BVB was not able to pull through its courageous line - despite two goals that had impressively demonstrated their own strength and that should have given additional self-confidence.
After just 75 seconds, Erling Haaland had put Dortmund in the lead - after a determined conquest of the ball by Mahmoud Dahoud, who took the ball from Joshua Kimmich shortly before the Bayern penalty area.
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In the ninth minute there was the most brilliant combination of the game in terms of football: Dahoud sees that Niko Schulz has space on the left and sends him off with a perfect pass.
Schulz goes through to Thorgan Hazard, who lays across Haaland - 2-0.
A sensation was in the air.
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But after that there wasn't much going forward for BVB.
The team withdrew, let Bayern play and stopped pressing.
"We started well, but if you play bravely for ten minutes it will be difficult," said Can.
“We didn't try to play football anymore.
Bayern did well, they are one of the best teams in the world.
Still, we have to play more football and try to be more courageous.
I think that's what was missing, ”says Can.
Bayern put BVB in place
In fact, the withdrawal meant that Bayern were able to develop their full attack force: One wave after the other rolled towards the Dortmunders.
A real relief attack was only successful once - but Thomas Meunier tried, although he himself was in a good final position, to cross again (25th minute).
This, too, had something to do with a lack of courage.
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Then the inevitable happened: Bayern put the Dortmund team on their toes, forcing them to make mistakes - Lewandowski scored at the connection (26th) and finally with a penalty kick to equalize (43rd).
Also in the second half, Dortmund stopped playing forward, just tried to defend the draw over time.
It failed.
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Source: dpa / Sven Hoppe
Switching to this passive style of play was not intended.
It wasn't that Terzic had gambled away tactically.
On the contrary: the coach kept shouting that his players should push out earlier.
In the half-time break, he reacted by trying to "sensitize the team, to provide relief and to put pressure on the opponents."
He didn't get through.
It was as if the players were trying to get into damage control mode out of some inner reflex.
In any case, it was not due to wrong instructions from the trainer, Can said: "We just didn't implement it."
Dortmund's subliminal respect
That had to do with a subliminal respect for the force of Bayern.
Anyone who has scored 3:26 goals from the last six Bundesliga games in Munich is apparently not completely convinced of themselves even after a 2-0 lead.
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After the 4-2 win against BVB, Bayern coach Hansi Flick speaks about the title fight against RB Leipzig, which is still hot on Bayern's heels.
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But it also had something to do with the fact that Lucien Favre, Terzic's predecessor, had often stopped the team to avoid risks in recent years.
Despite the progress made over the past few weeks, she still finds it difficult to see when it is actually advisable to withdraw - and when not.
BVB is currently working its way into the role of the Bayern hunter.
Even if the image conveyed by the team was significantly better than at most of the appearances in Munich in recent years: this process will still take time.
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