Jürgen Klopp and his Borussia Dortmund torture themselves in the Bundesliga from one failure to the next, in the Champions League shows Dortmund this season, however his best games. Why is that?

Evenings are for Borussia Dortmund again: Welcome to the parallel world! The Champions League, which is in this season of comforting retreat for BVB. As paradoxical as it sounds. Here the kloppsche football works the way it should. Taking stock of the first duels with the three group opponents are: three games, three wins, 9: 0 Goals.

In the head but the managers and players in Dortmund in these days have the stats from the Bundesliga: ten matches, seven defeats (five in a row), 11:17 Goals. It is the worst start of the 48-year history of the Bundesliga, BVB.

17th place is the team currently in the league and it could be even more bitter soon, finally now have even Werder Bremen and SC Freiburg celebrated their first victories of the season. From a “nightmare” says CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke, of a “plague” of the full-back Lukasz Piszczek. And Jürgen Klopp go the expletives out gradually.

The Dortmunder not suffer as long. But there are bright spots, actually been in every game of the season. Because defeat is not equal defeat, in the case of the BVB must distinguish between failures such as those against Hannover, Cologne, Hamburg, Schalke and those against the top teams Leverkusen and Bayern Munich

Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League:If you have the ball, it’s difficult to counter

Especially when 1: 2 against the giants last weekend BVB was phased show again what he does best: put the opponent under pressure consistently and smart, win the ball and attack with a clear plan. In the best case it works as the 1: 0 by Marco Reus.

What do the Dortmund at the time, is an enemy, they can bring their strengths. Hannover 96 (0: 1), Hamburg (0: 1) and Cologne (1: 2) were for example not very keen to get the ball. So Dortmund was mostly in possession (53 percent against Hannover, Hamburg 64 percent, 65 percent against Cologne).

If you have the ball, however, you can counter bad. And the Plan B, the quiet build-up play against a deep team standing, does not so far. Or serious individual errors as on Saturday by Neven Subotic lead to goals against and throw each concept overboard. “We have many construction sites and are not just bad luck down there in it,” Klopp said at the weekend. “We have self-inflicted lost many games.”

That there is another quite different, showing the BVB at the start of the Champions League against Arsenal (2: 0). Classic Dortmund Pressing the ball to win, followed by quick attacks. According to the statistics reads: In their own stadium, the team came up just 44 percent of possession. In Istanbul, the effortless 4: 0 victory, the opponent had the ball more often, the

Bundesliga club used his 47 percent possession of the ball but to malicious attacks. Only Anderlecht resulted in the beginning of his fate and left the Dortmundern most of the ball (54 percent). However, the weak Belgians had also so no chance (0: 3).

Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League:Klopp’s team builds in the second half from strong

In addition to the difficulties lurking teams and the many misfires Dortmund has another problem: to wane after the break, the concentration appears in the second 45 minutes makes the BVB enormous number of errors, collected most of the goals conceded (11 of 17) and differs from given concept from.

So again against Bayern, who had great difficulty against Borussia before. “We played too many long balls and are not succeeded by the right, thus the pressure was too great,” was Klopp’s analysis for the lost Top game: “For the first half we deserved something, nothing for the second.”

The issues raised by Klopp long balls are actually a specialty of Mats Hummels, who can then make the defense out the game quickly. When it is in the form of. But the World Cup hero has so far been no rhythm, no security, now it falls with a ligament strain even three weeks. “Without Mats Rear missing an important point guard,” said BVB sporting director Michael Zorc.

The worry, they are not necessarily smaller in the Dortmundern. In the Champions League it’s really just to win the group. But then comes the third-placed Borussia Monchengladbach

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