Dortmund ditch Favre and trust Terzić to offer a Klopp-like emotional reboot | Andy Brassell
14-Dec-2020 15:30:43 | The Guardian
The 5-1 humiliation by Stuttgart was the end for Favre and Terzic’s job is to lift the mood and lay the table for a successor
“We have to analyse this game.” It was two-and-a-half hours after full-time that the Borussia Dortmund chief executive officer, Hans-Joachim Watzke, finally emerged to briefly address waiting journalists. Watzke emphasised that his late exit from Westfalen was a legacy of staying to watch Bayern Munich’s evening game at Union Berlin rather than, he implied, anything weightier. It needed saying because there was (and is) much to discuss at BVB, and those journalists were hanging around for a reason.
It had been more than just a chastening afternoon chasing Stuttgart shadows, and it proved to be Lucien Favre’s last on the Dortmund bench. Watzke wondered aloud in his exchange with the media when a BVB team had last taken such a beating at home. Some suggested he might like to recall the 4-0 defeat against Hoffenheim as recently as the final day of last season, as it was the same margin as the 5-1 embarrassment on Saturday and even if that previous defeat was fairly academic from a Dortmund perspective, it underlined that while there were plenty of good moments under Favre the lows tended to be particularly stark.
Related: Lucien Favre sacked by Borussia Dortmund after heavy Stuttgart loss
✅ Demolition job, complete.
A bad day at the office for Dortmund, but what a performance from Stuttgart! pic.twitter.com/cdUONvlgcQ
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