Bundesliga: BVB before changing of the guard and title ecstasy

When the Dortmund team bus arrived at the club premises on Monday night, the BVB supporters were already celebrating their team as the title winner. “Only BVB will be German champions,” chanted the black and yellow fans ecstatically.

The advance to the top of the table in the Bundesliga sends an entire region into mega euphoria. The last BVB doubts about the ninth title in the club’s history have disappeared after the 3-0 win in Augsburg. “The city will burn,” promised Julian Brandt, looking ahead to the thrilling countdown to the home game against FSV Mainz 05 on Saturday.

Belief in the crowning glory of the Bundesliga season is real. The black and yellow have their first title since 2012 in their own hands with a two-point lead over FC Bayern. The players, coaches and officials strutted through the catacombs of the Augsburg Arena on Sunday evening with a big chest. “It’s about time,” said BVB keeper Gregor Kobel about the upcoming changing of the guard in the Bundesliga.

Promise from Schlotterbeck

Sports director Sebastian Kehl, a three-time champion with Dortmund as a player, cheered with a clenched fist. “Yes, one more damn win, one more shitty win,” yelled the 43-year-old. National player Nico Schlotterbeck sent a master’s promise to his teammates: “We will, we will, men!” The BVB defender then got a big hug from managing director Hans-Joachim Watzke. “We still have to go through a week. Regardless of the losses,” the BVB boss appealed to the team.

Dortmund’s Borsigplatz is gearing up for the ultimate champion’s party, which no one would have thought possible in winter. “If we had predicted in Marbella in January that we would be leaders by two points on matchday 33, you would have said we were stupid,” said Watzke, laughing to the journalists. In November, the gap to the Munich record winner was even nine points. Then Bayern started to slip up and BVB put in a furious second half of the season with only one defeat so far.

Dortmund has one hand on the championship trophy. Children born after 2012 could experience a different German soccer champion than FC Bayern for the first time. “Now we need the emotions in the city, in the stadium, and then we’ll take care of the football. Next week we have to be louder than we’ve ever been,” demanded BVB coach Edin Terzic from the around 81,000 fans. who will turn the Dortmund stadium into a cauldron on Saturday.

Kobel wants to keep it simple

Borussia expects an emotional, exciting and crazy week, as goalkeeper Kobel predicted. “There will certainly be a lot of pressure. But the conviction is extreme. It’s about time. We have to make everything as simple as possible,” said the Swiss and tried at least slightly to slow down Dortmund’s euphoria: “It’s still going. We still have our job to do and need another 90 minutes on Saturday.”

It only works collectively with the fans. Everyone in Dortmund agreed on Sunday evening. Terzic got emotional at the idea of ​​entering the stadium in front of 81,000 fans on Saturday. “I’m sure the boys can buy whatever they want. The next car. The next expensive vacation. The next house. But what they can’t buy is that moment of coming to the stadium next week. “

Bayern then travel to 1. FC Köln much more hopelessly. In Munich it was dead quiet after the BVB victory. There were no reactions to the loss of the championship lead until Monday. One can only imagine how stunned the players, the management team around Oliver Kahn and above all Mr. FC Bayern Uli Hoeneß followed the game in Augsburg. The first untitled season in ten years is slowly but surely becoming a reality.