Technical director Michael Zorc has nothing good to say about the Borussia Dortmund squad. BVB> blamed himself in the Europa League on Thursday by losing 2-4 to Rangers FC at home. Zorc lashes out at the selection of trainer Marco Rose, but at the same time still emphasizes that he fully supports the German coach.
According to Sky Deutschland an emergency meeting has taken place within the Dortmund management after the shocking defeat against Rangers, but Zorc is late Sports1 know that Rose still has full confidence. “Sending the coach away is normal in this industry, but we don’t go along with it,” says the technical director. “Marco Rose has our full support. I see the team as responsible for this defeat! We don’t have to talk about our trainer.”
“I’m just as upset and shocked now as I was last night,” continued Zorc. “It was an embarrassing performance from the first to the last minute, which was just totally inappropriate for a Europa League game. Our team was never ready for this match. Thursday night, the spotlights on, light drizzle, you play against Rangers: what more could you want as a footballer? And then you play so slow, you are always one step late, you show no willingness…”
German media were hard on Rose and his team after the Dortmund blow. BILD wondered if the German coach is still the right coach for Dortmund and who should solve this team’s defensive problems in the future? “Just the arrival of Niklas Sule will not help Dortmund. In the summer, it is clear, Dortmund will need new impetus at all levels of the team,” the sports newspaper reads.
Sports1 took it a step further. “If you think it couldn’t get any more embarrassing, go BVB one step further,” wrote journalist Patrick Berger. “It should have been a football celebration, but in the thousandth home game at the Westfalenstadion, the players put their club to shame. What the team showed on the field was a big joke. With this performance, captain Marco Reus and his teammates simply did not deserve to wear the venerable BVB logo.”
Who is ultimately the main culprit, Berger wonders, before answering the question himself. “The club management, who put together the wrong selection, trainer Marco Rose, who clearly cannot find solutions and whose game ideas still do not work after more than half a year, and of course the players themselves.” Dortmund lacks quality, but Zorc does not want to go along with that. “I don’t think this is a question of talent or quality. It is a question of attitude,” claims the technical director, who expects a reaction during the return. If the team has balls, they turn it around in the second game.”