Kovac demands Dortmund full focus to grasp Champions League chance

Niko Kovac warned Borussia Dortmund indispensable person afloat absorption connected their last 2 Bundesliga games arsenic they look to unafraid European shot adjacent season.

Dortmund thrashed Wolfsburg 4-0 to boost their hopes of qualifying for the Champions League connected Saturday, with a 5th Bundesliga triumph from their past six matches leaving them successful 4th spot.

Fifth-place Freiburg are connected the aforesaid points arsenic BVB, who volition beryllium hoping for a favour from Bayer Leverkusen connected Sunday.

“We volition ever rise our fingers and warn. We person 2 important games left, and we person to instrumentality these games precise earnestly due to the fact that determination is inactive a batch to beryllium gained,” Dortmund brag Kovac said.

“We privation to beryllium progressive successful planetary competitions.”

Serhou Guirassy, who took his league tally to 19, and Karim Adeyemi were the stars of the amusement astatine Signal Iduna Park, with each of them scoring twice.

Guirassy is conscionable the 2nd subordinate to people 18+ goals successful consecutive Bundesliga seasons for 2 antithetic clubs (having scored 28 for Stuttgart past term) aft Timo Konietzka (22 for Dortmund successful 1964-65 and 26 for 1860 Munich successful 1965-66).

“An important triumph successful a precise important game, and I deliberation each the results were beauteous bully for america today,” Guirassy told Sky Sport Germany.

“That’s wherefore this crippled was truthful important. We cognize that we person to instrumentality connected responsibility. And contiguous we did it.

“The archetypal fractional wasn’t truthful good, but the 2nd was a batch better. I anticipation we decorativeness the play with 2 wins against Leverkusen and past astatine location against Kiel.”

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There were concerns implicit a genu wounded for the Dortmund talisman, but helium added: “I’m not injured, I took a knock, but it’s thing serious. I’ll beryllium determination adjacent week.”

Leverkusen sojourn Dortmund adjacent Sunday, though the rubric contention could already beryllium implicit by that point, adjacent if Xabi Alonso’s broadside bushed Freiburg.

Bayern Munich volition person the accidental to seal the rubric astatine location to Borussia Monchengladbach adjacent Saturday, oregon the crown volition beryllium confirmed connected Sunday if Leverkusen bash not assertion each 3 points this weekend.

Pascal Gross sees the past 2 games arsenic an accidental to atone for what has been a mediocre play up to this point.

“For a agelong time, we’ve been falling abbreviated of our expectations but present I’m progressively going location with a bully feeling,” Gross said.

“The past fewer weeks person been precise positive, and not conscionable due to the fact that of the results. We are unchangeable and tin wounded our opponents. Excluding Barcelona distant from home, we’ve been connected a tally for a fewer weeks now.

“The basics are back. Everyone is making runs successful behind. That gets the opponent’s defence moving. That creates gaps, and past our prime tin asseverate itself.

“That’s however we enactment the contention nether pressure. We’ll effort to get six points – and past we’ll spot wherever we stand. We were a agelong mode off, present we’re backmost successful a spot wherever finishing 4th is possible.”