Borussia Mönchengladbach’s negative run puts more and more pressure on coach Marco Rose and his support team. After the 0: 1 in the explosive quarter-finals of the DFB Cup against his future employer Borussia Dortmund, Rose admitted for the first time that the situation also challenged him. “It doesn’t leave me behind either,” said the 44-year-old on Tuesday evening. There was also excitement about his assistant coach Rene Maric.
The fact that the Upper Austrian talked to Dortmund’s star striker Erling Haaland about shared times at Red Bull Salzburg after the final whistle – as recorded on TV pictures – was not well received by Gladbach’s fans. Maric later admitted a mistake in several Twitter posts. “I was and am so pissed off and sad that I couldn’t think of any cameras. Stupid,” wrote the 28-year-old. He described the scene as “naive, emotional and thoughtless”. Maric also wrote: “I will take the insults with a certain understanding and take responsibility for them.”
Rose heavily counted
Among the hard core of the “foals” supporters, Rose and his assistants are counted heavily after the change was announced a good two weeks ago. You would like to get rid of the trainer right away. Now four competitive defeats in a row do the rest of the fact that the situation in Gladbach is explosive. However, Rose does not have to worry about an early end of his activity at the club, stated sports director Max Eberl. “I don’t see the reason why it shouldn’t work,” said Eberl on ARD. The farewell is in the summer, not now.
Despite the negative streak, the players insisted that there was no problem between the team and the coach. “Just like before,” said the work with Rose, said the German international Jonas Hofmann. “With the point, of course, that we need results again, that we have to win again. Otherwise it will continue like that,” said the offensive player.
In the Champions League round of 16, Mönchengladbach is about to end after the 2-0 defeat in the first leg against Manchester City. In the Bundesliga, the duel with Bayer Leverkusen awaits on Saturday. In the event of a defeat, there is a risk of falling back to tenth place in the table, the European Cup starting places could move further and further away. The renewed Champions League qualification – actually Rose’s season goal – is realistically hardly achievable. “We’re just in a phase that is a bit difficult, but we have to stick with it now,” said right-back Stefan Lainer. “Now we have to show that we stick together as a team
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