Borussia Dortmund’s newest league defeat leaves die Schwarzgelben a full ten factors behind the ultimate Champions League place within the Bundesliga desk. Whether or not or not German soccer’s second wealthiest and largest membership will get European soccer in any respect subsequent season lies doubtful. Concerning the present ongoing 2024/25 UCL marketing campaign, there was extra dangerous information on Sunday.
Midfielder Marcel Sabitzer – – will miss not less than a month along with his damage incurred. Dortmund relayed Sabitzer’s downtime on Sunday with out offering a selected analysis. It is going to be the case that the Austrian worldwide – an everyday in head coach Niko Kovac’s lineup in latest weeks – can’t be referred to as upon for the 2 Champions League ties towards Barcelona.
Kovac’s personal temper yesterday clearly didn’t deviate a lot from On the submit match press convention, Kovac referred to as the fourth league defeat underneath his watch “a complete catastrophe”. The 53-year-old additionally put in an look on ZDF Sportschau this weekend.
The query of whether or not his contract contained Kovac strongly denied this rumor {that a} multi-million severance settlement was constructed into his deal.
“Folks speculate,” Kovac answered. “Maybe I ought to publish the contract brazenly. There’s nothing like that in it.“
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