With two goals, Marco Reus played a big part in Dortmund’s important victory in Berlin. The captain was suitably relieved, but did not want to hear about one particular question.
“We’ve had a very unsettled week, that’s for sure,” Reus told DAZN after the 3-0 win in Berlin, referring to the poor performance in the 2-5 defeat to Bayer 04 Leverkusen seven days earlier and noting: “We showed a reaction. The win feels good. “
Even before the break, the Black and Yellows had performed confidently and had let Union run again and again. “We played very respectably in the first half, just as we had envisaged,” said Reus, even if his team defended more than they would have liked after the change of ends. Nevertheless, after six games in which BVB had conceded at least one goal in each match, they had once again managed to keep a clean sheet.
Reus: “I was very lucky with the 1:0”
“We wanted to take on the fight, which we haven’t managed to do here in recent years,” said Reus, praising the energetic performance of his team-mates, but also admitting that they had “a lot of luck in a few situations”. For example, when they scored the opening goal, as scorer Reus confirmed: “I was very lucky when I scored the 1:0 goal.
In the build-up to the goal, he initially failed to control the ball decisively in a one-on-one with Robin Knoche, but then benefited from the ball coming to Mo Dahoud, who in turn played a clever pass back to Reus. Such luck had been “missing a bit in the last few weeks”, said Reus: “Today we forced it.”
The win moved BVB back to within six points of leaders Bayern Munich in the table. Are they perhaps looking upwards again? “If we play inconsistently, then we can’t concern ourselves with the very top. We have to make sure we get stability on the pitch,” Reus defended and demanded with a smile: “No more asking the question now, please. “
