Borussia Dortmund boss Nuri Sahin has demanded extra consistency from his facet as they give the impression of being to mount a problem to return to the Bundesliga prime 4 in the course of the second half of the season.
Dortmund beat Wolfsburg 3-1 on Sunday for his or her first away league win of the season, which helped them climb to sixth within the desk, with third-placed Eintracht Frankfurt and RB Leipzig, in fourth, solely two factors forward.
Donyell Malen, Maximilian Beier and Julian Brandt scored within the victory which ended a three-game winless streak and lifted them to the final spot to qualify for European soccer.
However Sahin lamented their place within the league desk and urged for extra consistency from his facet in the course of the the rest of the season.
“There have been a number of ups and downs. It was hesitant and that’s precisely what I hold telling the fellows,” Sahin instructed DAZN after the sport on the Volkswagen Enviornment.
Dortmund had solely collected two factors from their Bundesliga travels this season earlier than Sunday, which was their worst return from their first six video games on the highway in 33 years.
The defeat of Wolfsburg was additionally their first away win since April 13, once they beat Borussia Monchengladbach 2-1 and snapped an eight-match winless streak.
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“We’ve to be taught to be constant. The desk appears higher, however it might look rather a lot higher if we’d pulled it off in opposition to Hoffenheim,” the previous midfielder added, referring to final week’s 1-1 draw.
Dortmund completed the sport with 10 males as Pascal Gross noticed a pink card after that they had raced to a 3-0 lead within the second half.
“A 3-0 lead ought to offer you sufficient confidence to see the sport out comfortably,” mentioned Brandt, who returned to motion after a month out injured.
“You may criticise us [for the second-half]. It’s not good, we’ve got to play extra confidently, we’ve got to step up.”
In the meantime, 22-year-old Beier mentioned: “We’re looking for a reset within the new 12 months and play higher. We will’t purpose to be sixth.”
Dortmund constantly completed within the Bundesliga prime 4 between 2015-16 and 2022-23 earlier than ending fifth final season – 27 factors behind champions Bayer Leverkusen, who they’ll face subsequent at Sign Iduna Park on 10 January.
