After a 1-5 home defeat against VfB Stuttgart in mid-December 2020, Lucien Favre will be released as a coach of Borussia Dortmund. More than a year later, the Swiss now expresses itself over his BVB.

“It’s a pity, because we have previously qualified for the Champions League, there have been a group player there, and three days later it is 1: 1 against Stuttgart,” Favre described the then BVB situation in an interview with the French L ‘Equipe.

After that, the Dortmunds were crowded. “We make miserable mistakes and it was beat on blow. After a while you have to accept it with it. You always try to correct the mistakes, but it’s difficult,” Favre told.

A discharge had been almost altableless afterwards. He does not fail the BVB leadership against him. “Then I understand it. It’s Dortmund, you lose at home 1: 5…”

Nevertheless, he would be more than satisfied with his time in Dortmund. In the two and a half years, in which he led the sporty skills with the chat yellow, the club has been “qualified three times for the Champions League three times, was twice second against the Bavarians, which were inexorably at that time.”

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Favre: Haaland “A great transfer”

The transfer of striker Erling Haaland was one of his great successes during the BVB time. “He has so much strength when he goes into the depth between the two domestic defenders, they can not stop him anymore. He has made great progress, he is a great worker with a great mentality and someone who always wants to win. It was always A great transfer, “Walking Favre from the young Norwegian.

Haaland had to fit the release of Favres because of a muscle faser. That too did not necessarily help: “He had become indispensable and was injured in the time I went away.”

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Favre led between July 2018 and December 2020 the Dortmund team as head coach. Previously, he had already been active in the Bundesliga for Hertha BSC (2007-2009) and Borussia Mönchengladbach (2011-2015).