Emre Can continues to be unlucky with injuries: The Borussia Dortmund international has suffered another muscle injury and will therefore miss the upcoming BVB matches. A trio, on the other hand, is set to make a comeback in the upcoming home match against 1. FC Köln.
During the last international break, BVB coach Marco Rose cherished the hope that Emre Can’s season could finally get underway. After a long European Championship holiday, a muscle injury brought back from the holidays and another injury, the international could finally play again. But that is already over. As Rose explained on Friday before the home match against 1. FC Köln, Can has suffered another muscle injury that will keep him out of action until the upcoming international break in November. “It’s only a minor injury, but one that will not allow him to play the next two or three games,” the 45-year-old said of Can, who had been on the pitch for the full distance in the cup match against FC Ingolstadt (2-0) last Tuesday.
The BVB coach had better news for Donyell Malen, Youssoufa Moukoko and Gregor Kobel. The trio is set to make a comeback against Cologne – provided the final training session on Friday holds no nasty surprises. “Donny trained individually on Thursday, today we are testing whether it works,” Rose said of Malen. The Dutchman will be involved if he “copes well with the training”. The same applies to Kobel, who was still spared against Ingolstadt for precautionary reasons, as well as Moukoko, who trained with the U23s on Wednesday especially to be fully loaded, as the professionals only worked regeneratively on the day after the cup match. “We are talking about how resilient he is and what is possible,” Rose said of the match-up with the top talent. ” I already think he is an option. For how long, we will see then. “
67,000 spectators in the stands
Regardless of the personnel mind games, Rose’s anticipation for the clash against Cologne is high. For the first time since the start of the Corona pandemic, 67,000 spectators could be in the stands to watch the game, and in Steffen Baumgart, a friend of Rose’s is sitting on the Cologne bench. “I know him quite well, we did the football coaching course together and talk on the phone relatively often,” said Rose the day before the duel and paid Baumgart a great compliment: “Sometimes you get the feeling with him that he has fallen into the magic potion,” said the BVB coach. “It’s fun to see his emotions. He has taken a big step with his emotionality at an emotional club in an emotional city.” And in terms of content, he says clear progress is also evident under Baumgart. “When you see how they attack, how they defend.” ‘Baumi’, as Rose called his colleague, is doing a “very good job”.
Especially offensively, Baumgart has breathed new life into Cologne. Does a spectacle possibly beckon on Saturday? Rose would have nothing against it, but also said on Friday: “I would very much like it if we scored more goals in the end. That would be important to me in this context. “
