The quick enthusiasm for Erling Haaland and Marco Reus seems to be dampened again.

Borussia Dortmund's top stars are disillusioned at first.

The poor performance and the 1: 2 at SC Freiburg reminded of the deficits that BVB actually wants to shake off with the new coach Marco Rose.

Too often in the past few years the Dortmund team gambled away their championship chances against supposed outsiders.

Haaland, who was harmless this time, hurriedly trudged into the cabin on Saturday.

For Manuel Akanji, the surprising setback was the cause of urgent warning.

“We make stupid mistakes, twice,” the defender grumbled at Sky: “We can't invite the opponent to score goals.

That mustn't happen, especially not if we have the claim to the Champions League. ”And the ambitions to be a serious competitor for FC Bayern for the championship.

Four days after the defeat in the Supercup against Munich, BVB was again without regular players like Mats Hummels and Emre Can in the starting eleven, but by no means in the gala form of 5: 2 against Eintracht Frankfurt.

“We didn't get access to the front.

We played our way too seldom because we didn't move enough, ”criticized Reus.

Substitute Julian Brandt complained on ARD: "At the moment we are only beating ourselves."

Haaland again without a hit

Haaland, immediately celebrated as the Norwegian force of nature at the start of the season, also disappointed. In contrast to the DFB Cup and on the first Bundesliga matchday, the 21-year-old did not appear as the outstanding leader against the passionately hard-working Freiburg. Dortmund's licensed player boss Sebastian Kehl had said before the kick-off about the rapid development of Haaland: "So much hunger, so much ambition, there are definitely still a few more steps possible, also this season."

But on this summer football afternoon in Breisgau, the courted top attacker Haaland - as he did against Bayern - failed to score. His degrees were harmless. An own goal by Yannik Keitel (59th) ensured the connection. Nice goals, as would have been expected from Dortmund, were scored by the Freiburgers, who as a club are no longer as small as they would like to present themselves.

Vincenzo Grifo's wonderfully directly converted free kick put BVB under pressure early on (6th minute). Wooyeong Jeong, Lucas Höler and goal scorer Roland Sallai played a fine counterattack (53rd) - something you would have expected from Reus or Haaland. With efficiency and skillful defense, the Baden team demystified BVB for the second time in a row. Only in February a series of 19 winless games between SC against Dortmund came to an end.

“That was a great free kick, but we could have prevented it,” Akanji grumbled: “And the second goal we conceded was a counterattack after losing the ball.

That shouldn't happen to us.

It can happen that someone is better than us.

But we can't lose the games like that. ”It didn't help the Dortmunders that with 70 percent possession, 19: 8 shots on goal and 10: 0 corners, the statistics spoke for them and Freiburg coach Christian Streich admitted that“ luck ”was needed to have.

The cup winner has already conceded seven goals in the three compulsory duels with the first division team during the season.

“Nothing changes in our claim.

We lost a game today.

Our aim is to win the next game, ”said coach Rose, who didn't have a better start to the season than his predecessor Edin Terzic.

After all, the coach saw it as a step in the right direction that the returnees Hummels, Can and Brandt gained their first match practice. Raphael Guerreiro had to play for the ailing Nico Schulz after only one team training at the end of the first half. Already on Friday against TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, Rose should bet on one or the other last painfully missing professional from the start. And he will hope that Haaland will play in gala form again.