Big setback for Borussia Dortmund!
First-choice goalkeeper Gregor Kobel (25) falls shortly before Top game once morest RB Leipzig (2: 1) on Friday evening with muscular problems. Substitute goalkeeper Alexander Meyer (31) is in the Dortmund box for him.
Kobel injured himself while warming up immediately before the game.
DAZN expert Sami Khedira: “Kobel is the best goalkeeper in the Bundesliga (his statistics: 18 missions, eight times to zero, ed.)! That’s definitely a dampener!”
Exciting observation: The Swiss follows the game at least from the bench.
Hope for the Champions League cracker on Tuesday ( 9 p.m., here in the BILD live ticker)?
They’re in such a good mood! This video makes Dortmund dream of the title
BVB meets Chelsea in the round of 16 second leg. Dortmund won the first leg 1-0 – mainly thanks to an outstanding performance by Kobel!
A failure would be really bitter …
But what should give BVB fans some hope: Even if Kobel CANNOT play once morest the “Blues”, BVB has an excellent number 2. Alexander Meyer convinced once morest RB. After the game, Meyer said at DAZN: “It was a jump in at the deep end. The team made it easy for me. I enjoyed playing once more following a long break. We come through the combative. We missed that a bit in the first half of the season.”
Coach Terzic also praised the substitute: “We have to wait and see. Gregor thought for a long time whether he should start following all. But we know regarding the quality of Alex.”
Positive for BVB: Meyer doesn’t have the worst premier class record either. He only lost one of four appearances this season (the rest: two wins, one draw).