“After the match in Rome everyone said it was the end of the world”

Thanks to a 1-1 draw against Lazio, BVB will qualify for the Champions League round of 16 on Wednesday. However, the price for this is high.

One point in the home game against the Romans is enough for Borussia Dortmund to qualify for the knockout stage in the premier class. Lucien Favre has to pay dearly for the round of 16.

Star first striker Erling Haaland tore a muscle fiber in his last training session and – just like Emre Can – has to go through the important match. The Norwegian will probably have to stay out until January. Then central defender Mats Hummels was injured during the match and scorer Raphael Guerreiro had to leave the pitch.

This is probably one of the reasons why coach Lucien Favre is satisfied with his team’s performance at the press conference. «We played without Haaland and Can, and after tonight there were even more players. We can be satisfied, we are qualified “.

“This is not a penalty, this is theater”

The Swiss does not mourn the initially missed group victory. «Right now I’m thinking of our injured players. I don’t care about the rest, the first place is irrelevant ”, says Favre. He is annoyed by the three points lost for another reason: “Overall we should win 1-0 because it wasn’t a penalty for me.” It is too easy for Favre to fall Milinkovic-Savic after the duel with Schulz. “Incredible. It’s not a penalty, it’s a theater. It’s exaggerating,” says the 63-year-old.

The penalty given for Lazio appears to be questionable after just over an hour. Sporting director Michael Zorc also said in an interview with “Sky”: “You can only have one opinion. So the VAR is no longer needed if such a bad decision is made. ”

Dortmund corrected the false start

Same opinion also in the “blue Sport” study. “Of course he doesn’t play the ball. But it’s just a wanted penalty. And for me it’s not. I would like the referee to go to the attacker and say: ‘Try not to do that'”, Urs Meier analyzes. Marco Streller agrees : “No penalty for me either, but the attacker does it with intelligence”.

However, Dortmund’s final result is the joy of qualifying for the round of 16, already widely doubted after the initial defeat in Rome (1: 3). Lucien Favre, in particular, has not forgotten this – and underlined several times on Wednesday evening: “After the match in Lazio everyone said it was the end of the world. We are now qualified and this is the most important thing! “

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