Julian Brandt preferred not to indulge in a sense of exuberance after becoming the decisive player in Borussia Dortmund's 2-0 win in Stuttgart.

The severity of the unsatisfactory overall situation at BVB continues to weigh on people's minds, and Brandt has long been viewed particularly critically.

"It was okay today," said the 25-year-old attacker soberly after not only scoring both goals of the evening but also setting an amazing record.

Never before in the Bundesliga has a substitute scored earlier than Brandt in the twelfth minute.

At that time, the native of Bremen was only on the pitch because Giovanni Reyna, who was plagued by repeated injuries, hobbled off the field in tears after just one minute with a new muscle injury.

Great moments, many deficits

This gave Brandt a new chance to fight the doubts that have accompanied his performances for many months.

The national player, who switched from Bayer Leverkusen to BVB in 2019 for 20 million with a clear plan to advance into the world-class phalanx, has never been able to meet expectations.

"I had a difficult season last year, which I want to forget as soon as possible - two goals help, of course," he said in Stuttgart.

But his first year at BVB was not easy for him either.

And in the current season, he embodies the character of this team like no other: Great football moments together with hair-raising mistakes in the structure of the game and physical deficits result in a mixture that doesn't really satisfy anyone.

"He always works himself out"

And so Marco Rose gave a small lecture in Stuttgart that made the whole ambivalence of the Brandt years at BVB clear: "He is an excellent footballer, has worked a lot for the team, what I basically know from Jule," said the Trainer.

Brandt does not suffer from the phlegm that has slowed so many gifted people on their way to world class.

"Jule is there, Jule starts, Jule makes his way back, he always works himself out," said Rose, under whom Brandt has played his strongest season so far in Dortmund.

He has already scored seven goals in the Bundesliga and six more, and he is used in every game when he is healthy.

But there are also "two or three things" that Brandt was missing, Rose explained: "We will certainly no longer make a duel monster out of him, but I simply demand that we are all ready to hurt ourselves in a competitive game." this is where Brandt has weaknesses.

In the run-up to the game in Stuttgart, the coach had explained that his team had to develop the "physique" with which FC Villarreal won against Bayern Munich last week in order to meet their own expectations.

The developments in modern football, which is becoming more and more dynamic and powerful, are a problem for guys like Brandt.

Because he is a player who can enrich his team's performances with the inventiveness of a gambler rather than with great physical intensity.

Unfortunately, gambling often goes wrong;

that's why Brandt must feel addressed when Rose says, alluding to avoidable ball losses in the build-up game: "For the claims that we have, we make too many easy mistakes that lead to easy goals for the opponent."

That's why the highly gifted player, whose maturation process just doesn't want to pick up speed, has to fear for his participation in the World Cup in Qatar at the end of the year.

And that's why he belongs to the group of players at BVB who could be suggested to change clubs in the course of the announced upheaval.

As well as Emre Can, Nico Schulz, Dan-Axel Zagadou, Axel Witsel and some others.

According to everything that is known so far, the future project that the new sports director Sebastian Kehl has devised together with Rose is tailored to other types of players.

People like the straightforward Karim Adeyemi, who is said to come from RB Salzburg, but also people like Nico Schlotterbeck or Cologne's Salih Özcan could help the team to achieve a physicality that is currently lacking.

Which place will then remain for Brandt is currently completely uncertain.