It is still a while until the 34th and last final matchday of the Bundesliga, but due to the current escalation in the “Fanszenen against Dietmar Hopp” case, the Borussia Dortmund game against TSG Hoffenheim appears to be highly explosive almost three months earlier. Looking at the upcoming matchday, associations and clubs should already feel a bit down. Borussia Mönchengladbach versus Borussia Dortmund are two clubs that have contributed significantly to the development. BVB fans have been banned from visiting the away game in Sinsheim for the next two seasons after repeated defamation by Hopp. The Gladbach fans reacted to the collective punishment against the anything but friendly attachment with a tasteless poster that showed the majority owner of TSG in the crosshairs.
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The straightforward 1-0 of BVB against SC Freiburg was quickly ticked off, the protagonists had to answer questions about what they intend to do to de-escalate. They didn’t know it, especially not shortly after a soccer game. They only knew that they had to do something, that they had to talk, among the clubs, with the associations. There will probably also be meetings with fan representatives. The chance that they will bring their insults down to zero should be slim, despite the risk that a game will be abandoned in the last instance and considered to be lost for their own team.
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“This is not in the sense of football”
“We have now reached a point that can no longer be tolerated. If you stand on the threshold of abandonment in different places, it is not in the spirit of football. It sucks,” said Dortmund’s sports director Michael Zorc.
Freiburg’s trainer Christian Streich took a long swing after admitting that he had no solution. He mentioned the shift to the right, agitation against people, the AfD, he recalled the Weimar Republic and demanded: “Resist the beginning!” He went on to say: “If this continues, we will all leave the square and go home.”
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Zorc considered the brief interruption of the referee to be asked to make an announcement for offensive calls shortly after the break. Before the game, the clubs were explicitly advised that the three-stage plan, which had initially been conceived because of racist incidents, would be strictly implemented. Referee Robert Hartmann, however, refrained from interrupting the game again after reviling Hopp.
In the run-up to the game between the Gladbachers and BVB, the topic will be superimposed on a sportily highly interesting location. Dortmund won six of the seven games in the second half of the season and, like Gladbach, is manageable behind the leaders from Munich.
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If BVB thinks about which games this deficit stems from, it should be able to think of a series of three draws in the first half of the season. At Eintracht Frankfurt, against Werder Bremen and at SC Freiburg there was only a 2: 2 despite interim tours.
In the second half of the season, the Dortmund team won three games against 7: 0 goals.
However, it was more due to the weak “final quality” of Freiburg that Christian Streich had been observing for weeks than to his own strength on the defensive that the series held. BVB played sluggishly, seldom brought speed into play, but before Jadon Sancho’s 14th goal of the season. “It wasn’t a spectacle, but the result counts,” said Raphaël Guerreiro. At least one who was interested in the result.
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