The weather in Dortmund matched the mood in Dortmund.
On Saturday there was still a lot of sun and warmth in Dortmund.
The furious 5: 2 victory over Frankfurt at the start of the Bundesliga fit perfectly into the bright black and yellow picture.
Only three days later, dark clouds, from which some rain fell, had come over the Westfalenstadion.
The 1: 3 against FC Bayern in the Supercup between the cup winners and the champions last season affected Borussia’s mood like the drop in temperature on Tuesday evening.
Tobias Rabe
Responsible editor for Sport Online.
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The Dortmunders had to find out early in the new season that the hunter from Munich had not already become a diligent collector of titles.
The value of the Supercup in the showcase is regularly downplayed by everyone, but how the players approached the matter on the pitch, it quickly became clear that everyone here wanted to lift the silver and gold trophy.
Even if Leipzig is another serious contender, it is still the great prestige duel of German football.
And in the end the Bavarians cheered again.
"We are disappointed," said the new BVB coach Marco Rose. “We saw a high-class game. But we made too many simple mistakes. ”Before the break, his defense overlooked Robert Lewandowski, who started from the backcourt, who hit with his head (41st minute), after the break there was far too much space for the Munich attackers until Thomas Müller only had to push the ball into the empty goal (49th). After Marco Reus' clever long-range shot into the corner, hope came up (64th), before Manuel Akanji negligently lost the ball in front of the penalty area and Lewandowski casually pushed in to make it 3-1 (74th).
"After the 1: 2 we had Bayern on the hook, but then got the third goal," complained Rose, who tried to emphasize the good aspects of the BVB game: "Even if we lost, take I have a lot of positive things to say about my next tasks. We want to be brave. And we want to learn from our mistakes. ”These were revealed during the first real endurance test. Previously against Frankfurt and also in the DFB Cup in the first round at 3-0 at the third division club SV Wehen Wiesbaden, noticeable deficiencies did not come to light, also because Erling Haaland outshone everything.
The star striker scored all three goals in the cup and scored twice against Eintracht, and he had his feet in the game before the other three goals. He found it much more difficult against Bayern because he had opponents in Dayot Upamecano and Niklas Süle who could keep up in terms of robustness and speed and, above all, Munich did not give him the space for his unstoppable runs like the opponents before. Significant was Haaland's chance in stoppage time, when he, still disturbed by Süle, ultimately only managed a harmless shot.
The other great striker from the lawn already had another proof of his class to offer. Lewandowski, who had beaten the record set by Gerd Müller, who died on Sunday, with 41 goals last season, was there when the Munich team needed him. “It means a lot, this is the next title. What we showed was great, ”said Lewandowski, who was happy about the return of the fans to the stadium. “It was really great to play with spectators. You play for the fans. it was also a good game to watch, with lots of offensive action from both teams. "
The best Dortmund action of the first half was a chance from Reus, who appeared before Manuel Neuer. But the national goalkeeper fended off the ball with his foot in a world-class parade (20th). A goal for BVB and things might have turned out very differently. But that's how the Dortmund captain had to sum up: “We really wanted to win because it was a final and there was a trophy to be won. That is why we are disappointed. ”Reus said that he was responsible for the goals conceded, addressing Borussia's weaknesses. "Of course I'm sad."
Not least thanks to Lewandowski, the Munich team was a long way from that when they lifted the trophy into the night sky on the small stage on the lawn with confetti rain. The striker met in Dortmund in the 14th competitive game in a row. Only Gerd Müller managed that in German professional football in the 1969/70 season with as many as 16 games. “He brought in an incredible spirit. It was like a life insurance policy, outstandingly good, ”said Nagelsmann in praise of the double goal scorer, whom the disappointing European Championship with the early exit of his Poland does not seem to have thrown off course.
The result will also make the trainer's work easier in the coming days. After all, he had not won in four test matches and at the Bundesliga start in Mönchengladbach with his new team. Already the faint hope of a Bayern weakness germinated in the competition. That changed in Dortmund. Nagelsmann spoke of an "absolutely deserved victory for us". But he did not want to write success on himself: “The title is a reward for the last season. This is a title that belongs to Hansi (Nagelsmann's predecessor Hansi Flick, editor) and the team. "
Flick set the bar high with seven trophies in a year and a half. A start has now been made for Nagelsmann. “I want more titles than just one. I have such small hamster teeth. I would love to be a title hamster. I have one now. I have to take a role model from many of our players. ”That is what his new supervisor has of the executive staff:“ This title is just the beginning, we still have a lot to do, ”wrote CEO Oliver Kahn Twitter: It doesn't look like many sunny days for the Bavarians.