Is this the "Klopp-Effect"?
I watched the last 6 performances of Dortmund and they were all rather bad. Your counter pressing doesnt work, because many teams have found a way to avoid it, still too many missed chances, defence is hilarious, defensive midfield is vulnerable etc. You downplay PSGs great performance against Neverkusen, but forget to mention that Zenit doesnt play at the moment, because the league hasnt even started in Russia. They managed to score 4 goals against you and you were basically out in the group stage with losses too.
And last year is history I'm afraid. The only real comparison with one of the top clubs this year ended with a 0-3 defeat for Dortmund. Its nothing personal Milch, but I admire Lewandwski for his honesty in his interview for stating the truth: "If we perform like this against the other 7 clubs, we are out and we should not always make it so easy and use the "injuries" as excuse for bad performances". Its pretty obvious that in this state, BVB and United are the weakest teams left in the tournament.
It's not just injuries, but they play the major role.
We lost Götze to Bayern and alot of other players because of injuries, I don't have to point out the importance of Kuba,Subotic and especially Gündogan ?
Sahin is still far away from his best performance, and our current squad can't given him the necessary freedom in order to shine.
New players like Miki and Auba need some time to get into the team and to live our playstyle.
Gündogan and Lewa for example took almost a year until they were fully integrated.
Our main problem this year is the attachment between defense,midfield and Lewa.
Auba is quite good as offensive player, but his defensive work is far from being good.
Just take a look how often Piszcek is alone against 1-2 other players, Sahin or Kehl are constantly forced to help out our right- or leftback, therefore it takes way to much time to get a counter on the way.
Another point is Miki, he's still not as good as we need him to be.
Every once in a while, he shows what he's capable of, but it's not happening that often.
Concentration is another point, we're loosing alot of balls lately because of lacking concetration.
That's heavily influenced by the injuries.Alot of the players can't get a break and even people who were one of the better players, like Großkreutz, are loosing alot more balls lately.
Our injuries also influence the constant changes, we can't rotate and mostly our players get a break when they're injured.
Hummels,Schmelzer for example had minor injuries compared to Subotic or Kuba, but they could never get to 100% because they we're always on the pitch once they were back.
And we could never get into a solid formation with the constant changes.
