Dortmund are missing the victories - is there a risk of the typical BVB season?

The 2-0 defeat against Union Berlin caused a lot of frustration at Borussia Dortmund.

Dortmund are missing the victories - is there a risk of the typical BVB season?

The 2-0 defeat against Union Berlin caused a lot of frustration at Borussia Dortmund. While the playful appearance was one of the worse kinds, the demands now diverge further. After all, one would like to sit at the top in Union's place. Is the well-known course of the season threatening again?

FC Bayern has hardly weakened in the course of the still young season when another club manages to move to the top of the table with consistently good results. However, it is not BVB, as would have been expected - but Union Berlin.

The league leaders, who still have a four-point lead despite Bayern's recent return, also won against Dortmund on Sunday. The 0:2 bankruptcy from BVB's point of view already meant the fourth defeat after ten games. No other team from the top half of the table has lost so many games.

According to the reality: After ten match days, Borussia is in eighth place in the table. Although with a few draws, which often meant annoying point losses in recent years, but with a comparatively large number of defeats. In addition, the goal difference slipped into the red on Sunday. Also here: No other team from the top half of the table has scored as few goals as BVB.

The frustration is great. On the one hand because of the 0:2. It was a playfully weak performance that fitted exactly into the pattern that Union would like to see in an opponent. On the other hand, there is now a wide gap between claim and reality.

Even if nobody in charge really says it: Of course they would love to be champions again in Dortmund. And when should that be possible if not at a time when Bayern also only win five of their ten games?

"You can be sure that we want nothing more than to become German champions," Edin Terzic said a few weeks ago at the Talk der Ruhr Nachrichten. He just doesn't know when that will be the case.

There are more and more indications that this season it will probably not succeed again.

Instead, BVB finds itself in the gray midfield. Of course there are still a few games to play and lots of points to be won. However, the course of the season that is quite typical for Dortmund is already emerging.

As Lars Pollmann, a freelance football reporter, explained on Twitter: The start of the season is going well, the mood is good and some promising newcomers will be signed in the summer of transfers. In the fall, the usually frequent injuries and sometimes curious point losses and defeats follow.

Dortmund has just arrived at this point. This becomes clear when you take a look at the form curve: just two of the last eight competitive games have been won. And one of those wins was against Schalke 04 - not a great opponent at the moment.

There are signs of a classic course of the season, which BVB is now quite familiar with. After all, the last few years have very often followed this pattern. What is still missing in the future: An equally difficult winter, in which we win now and then, but also lose. A good series only occurs in the second half of the season, which then also secures entry into the Champions League.

Whether there will be this supposed happy ending this season is of course still unclear. However, there are increasing signs that the Terzic team will also act in this pattern of the last few years. So the problem is less the coach.

There are still important games to play before the World Cup break in about a month - both nationally and internationally.

In addition to a sovereign advancement in the DFB Cup on Wednesday evening against Hannover 96, it needs a stabilization in terms of appearances. Mats Hummels recently rumbled that the game is not being played smart enough. Rather, it also seems to be the case that the team finally has to develop clear patterns on how to score more goals again. The efficiency that was praised in the first weeks of the season with several 1-0 victories will not last long. This is currently evident.

This article was originally published on 90min.com/de as Dortmund are missing the victories - is there a risk of the typical BVB season? released.

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