Niko Kovac was left to lament wasteful ending and a few unhealthy luck after Borussia Dortmund went down 2-0 to RB Leipzig.
Dortmund had 25 pictures, getting 9 of these on track, at Crimson Bull Enviornment on Saturday.
But they slumped to a defeat that leaves them eleventh within the Bundesliga, with Xavi Simons and Lois Openda on track for the hosts.
Dortmund collected 3.11 anticipated objectives and hit the woodwork 3 times, with Leipzig extra medical, changing their two objectives from 1.78 xG.
“This can be a disaster. And never the usual I set for myself,” Kovac instructed Sky Sport.
“It’s unbelievable. I can’t clarify it both. The ball simply wouldn’t go in right this moment. The very fact is: We didn’t rating the objectives and left the pitch as unlucky losers right this moment.
“We now have to attain a minimum of three or 4 objectives.”
Dortmund had been Champions League finalists final season and have additionally made it to the quarter-finals this yr, however their woeful home type has left their participation within the competitors subsequent season in query.
Midfielder Pascal Gross mentioned Dortmund wanted to be rational about their hopes of returning to Europe’s largest stage, including: “We now have to win video games. It’s slowly changing into unrealistic.
“First half was weak, second half we’ve got to attain the objectives. We’re in eleventh place. I’m not going to say it now, ‘We’ll attain the Champions League’. You may at all times speak quite a bit. At this time we didn’t make it.
“It [the performance] was extraordinarily unhealthy, as a result of as soon as once more we’ve got issues after the Champions League. That actually annoys me. I feel consistency is a large high quality in soccer. We’re missing that. We will’t play at a sure stage each three days.”
A sport stuffed with possibilities, however nothing to point out for it. pic.twitter.com/h5krizNplp
— Borussia Dortmund (@BlackYellow) March 15, 2025
Dortmund additionally face an anxious wait to be taught the extent of midfielder Marcel Sabitzer’s knee damage after the Austria worldwide limped off the pitch in tears early within the second half.
“I don’t know precisely what occurred. In any case, he has knee ache and we now have to attend and see what precisely occurred there,” Kovac mentioned.
“I can’t say if it’s a long-term damage and I don’t need to throw any hypothesis into the room. We’ll have to attend and see and the investigations will then carry the outcome.”
Dortmund subsequent host Mainz on March 30, however defender Nico Schlotterbeck isn’t assured of their probabilities of pushing for European qualification.
He mentioned: “It’s troublesome. It’s virtually inconceivable.
“The probabilities are very slim proper now. We’ll attempt our greatest, after all. After the worldwide break, we’ve got to assault by some means.”
Based on Opta’s predictive mannequin, Dortmund are actually extra more likely to end in eleventh place than they’re in every other place.
