BVB quake: coach Lucien Favre before the end? Two decisions fly around his ears

Borussia Dortmund fail once again in an important game.

Is BVB too weak for a title this season too?

• Borussia Dortmund

  starts

  the new

  Champions League season

  with a defeat at

  Lazio Rome

  .

• Coach Lucien Favre is once again under fire - his tactics and personnel decisions raise questions.

• Well-known patterns seem to be returning to the Westphalians.

  Does the club lack the

  winning mentality

  ?

Rome / Dortmund -

threatens to become disillusioned with sport early on in the season: BVB

started the Champions League with a defeat

at

.

That alone can of course happen - and the chances of reaching the last sixteen are still there.

BVB landed on the ground again after CL bankruptcy at Lazio Rome

The way, however, ensures that the club under coach

, which is always endowed with title

recently landed on the ground again.

It fits all too well into the picture that of all people,

, who failed in Dortmund, was

one of the match winners in the home win for the Serie A club.

Enough.

Borussia is defeated in the Olimpico.

#LazioBVB pic.twitter.com/7eIOXQXImt

- Borussia Dortmund (@BVB) October 20, 2020

So once again a

and his tactics

flares up with the black and yellow

, and the

is once again coming to the fore.

Licensed player boss Sebastian Kehl expressed dissatisfaction with the Bundesliga club's performance after the game, and BVB captain Marco Reus didn't try to be restrained either: “Our passing game wasn't good, nor was our counter-pressing.

Actually we missed everything.

That is of course bad in a Champions League game, "said the offensive man to Sky (click here for the votes).

Borussia Dortmund and title ambitions: is BVB missing the winning mentality?

Despite their undoubtedly

, Borussia Dortmund

still

seems to have problems being fully there in trend-setting games with great attention - a characteristic that title competitor and series champion FC Bayern * all too often shows.

Although the Westphalia have upgraded personnel for the new season,

can be held.

Despite important personnel decisions, BVB has to find out this season that certain problems under Favre do not seem to be eliminated.

An Achilles heel in the defeat in Rome:

, who is not yet the hoped-for reinforcement as the successor to Achraf Hakimi (Inter Milan).

A loss of the ball by the Belgian, of whom sports director Michael Zorc recently said he made “very, very few mistakes”, led to Immobile's early goal.

Meunier has not yet been able to prove his skills in the Bundesliga either.

One consolation: Even Hakimi had in Dortmund

.

The BVB's goalkeeper position is a symbol of insecurity: In the

, the regular number one Roman Bürki had to sit on the bench - compatriot Marvin Hitz was preferred.

A hint for a changing of the guard?

In general, Favre currently offers a lot of attack surface with its personnel decisions and its tactical orientation.

As usual in English weeks, Borussia will soon have the opportunity to make

: with a home win in the derby against Schalke 04.