Club World Cup: “Hey Jobe”-Bellingham quickly becomes a factor in the BVB game

At least the BVB fans traveled to the USA quickly found a new hit. “Hey Jobe” always echoed the melody of the old Beatles classic “Hey Jude” through the TQL stage in Cincinnati. The original was smashed until 2023 in Dortmund to homage to Jude Bellingham. His brother Jobe – only for almost two weeks BVB professional – had to smile against Mamelodi Sundowns from South Africa after the 4: 3 (3: 1) spectacle of Borussia Dortmund.

“Nice, really very nice. I already understand the background. As long as the fans sing positively about me, I don’t care about anything,” said the 19-year-old, who had brought the Dortmund for a good 30 million euros from AFC Sunderland and absolutely wanted to have the World Cup in the USA.

Bellingham stands out of error-related BVB team

Why was there easy to see in the second BVB group game on Saturday. For the first time, the younger Bellingham brother stood in the Dortmund starting eleven and convinced. In the 45th minute he shot the preliminary decision to 3: 1 and was always conspicuous with his physical presence. Almost logically, FIFA was named the game player.

“I’m proud,” he said afterwards and quickly demonstrated this via Instagram, where he posted his most successful scenes from the game. “First start-up and first goal for this incredible club,” wrote the younger Bellingham brother.

No question that the Englishman was one of the light turns in the otherwise wild and very faulty BVB game. Despite a 4-1 lead against the South African champion from Pretoria, the Dortmunders had to tremble in the end. In the heat of Cincinnati at over 30 degrees, the position game of the Dortmund did not work as usual.

Mahner Kovac ruffles Bellingham

Not even at Bellingham, as coach Niko Kovac noted. However, the top talent did not run too little, but rather in the wrong moments. “He didn’t keep the position too often,” the coach ruffled his prominent access. However, Kovac noted, Bellingham wasn’t there for long. Because he could not yet internalize the processes, Kovac had noticed him in the first game at 0-0 against Fluminense Rio de Janeiro – at least in the starting XI.

But now Kovac couldn’t get past him. From the beginning, Bellingham had impressed him with his fitness and presence. The midfield with him on the more offensive eighth position and Felix Nmecha on the six next to Pascal Groß worked better than with Marcel Sabitzer and Karim Adeyemi before. “You have already seen that we have a lot of quality on the pitch. This is the future of this club,” said Kovac too.

Midfield with Nmecha and Bellingham works better

It is difficult to imagine that there is another change in this area in the last group game against HD Ulsan. NMECHA was correspondingly happy. “I had a good feeling with him,” said the German international. “He is a very good player. He has a lot of potential. And I hope that we will have good moments in this club together.”

At BVB there is imagination that Bellingham takes a development similar to that of his two -year -old brother, who is now one of the stars at Real Madrid. “I hope he will get even better,” Julian Brandt had been mild in the past few days. The statements of Kovac also illustrate how big the potential is at Jobe Bellingham. “He was good, but there is still a lot missing,” said his coach about the player of the game.