For Julian Brandt, Borussia Dortmund’s good start to the season also has to do with a constructive team spirit. Coach Marco Rose, however, still sees “a lot of room for improvement”.
Is the start to the season right because the team spirit is right? Or is it the other way round? In any case, Borussia Dortmund’s dressing room seems to be a feel-good place right now. “The team atmosphere is very good,” Julian Brandt confirmed on Monday, but he explicitly did not want to pin it down to mutual sympathy alone.
“On the one hand, we all get on very well, we are there for each other. You can see that more and more on the pitch,” he stressed two days after the 3:1 win against Mainz and one day before the Champions League match with Ajax Amsterdam. But: “On the other hand, we are also slowly getting back into a form where we can tell each other what wasn’t so good. “
Brandt hints that things were already different in the BVB dressing room
It’s not just coach Marco Rose who is responsible for this constructive cooperation. “In the meantime, we’re also getting a little bit dirty again, just improving in certain things – of course always in such a way that you can shake hands again afterwards,” Brandt hinted that things had been different internally in this respect in the past
“I think that’s just as important as all the friendship and fun. That’s where the team has developed in the two and a half years I’ve been here,” the midfielder continued. “That helps us enormously. I hope that gives us stability. “
“We have development potential in all parts, in all. Every single one. “
BVB-COACH MARCO ROSE
Rose also thinks after six wins in the Bundesliga and two in the Champions League, “that we’ve done quite well up to this point. But we have to keep at it,” he urged on Monday: “We have development potential in all sub-areas, all of them. Every single one. We have a lot of work to do, a lot of potential, a lot of room for improvement, but the quality and the character to work on it. “
Persistence is crucial, he said. “Even if we call that (our own game idea, ed.) 100 per cent in certain games, it’s about doing it again three days later,” he stressed. “We are measured by results, full stop, done, out.”
If there are no results, the wind can change again quickly, he said. Rose: “The reporting before the Leverkusen-Bayern game was along the lines of: Is Leverkusen ready to become German champions? I don’t read anything about that the day after. “