Dortmund out to stop rot with Galatasaray tonic
Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp says the Bundesliga strugglers desperately need a Champions League win over Galatasaray on Tuesday to help get their season back on track.
Borussia can secure their place in the knockout phase by beating Galatasaray in Dortmund having beaten them 4-0 in Istanbul a fortnight ago.
The 2013 Champions League finalists are top of Group D having won their first three matches in style while Galatasaray are bottom of the table after two defeats and a draw.
But Klopp says Dortmund particularly need a confidence-boosting win having lost their last five German league matches, including a 2-1 defeat at Bayern Munich on Saturday.
Dortmund are enduring the worst start to a league season in the club’s history to leave them second from bottom in the table.
And another victory over Galatasaray in Europe would be a welcome tonic ahead of Sunday’s Bundesliga clash with third-placed Borussia Moenchengladbach.
“We have the opportunity to once again to celebrate that success feeling and get things back on track,” said Klopp, who has been given a job guarantee by CEO Hans-Joachim Watzke.
“We expect a strong Galatasaray team tomorrow, who want to improve increase their situation in the table and we’ll be ready for that.
“We showed some positive developments against Bayern, even if we did not get a result, and we’ll try to build on that.
“We want to try to keep working on things in the game tomorrow and then take advantage of it on Sunday.”
Having won the 2011 and 2012 German titles, then finished runners-up for the last two seasons, Dortmund are in a crisis for the first time since Klopp took charge in 2008.
“Of course, the whole situation is not great right now,” said veteran midfielder Sebastian Kehl.
“We talked about it for a long time on Sunday.
“I have the feeling that we, as players, much like the whole club, needs to stay calm, the situation is not hopeless.
“I don’t think we are doing things that much differently in the league as we are in the Champions League, but we lack the concentration and the compactness.
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