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| | | Gross against Klopp - whose streak will come to an end? | | | | [29.01.] The statements were similar, the appreciation and respect for each other more or less the same as last week before BVB´s game against Hamburg. In the build-up to Sunday´s match (KO 1530 CET, live on Netradio) at Stuttgart Jürgen Klopp emphasized: "The current table positions are only of minor significance. We are going to have to play at our best to pick up something at Stuttgart." | | | "VfB don´t belong there, "said Klopp, referring to Stuttgart´s low league position. "They are still in the Champions League and are one of the best teams in the Bundesliga.  | | In front of the microphones: Jürgen Klopp |
And since the coaching change, the team is looking very solid again." But this makes the task "much more challenging", and the goal the same as in the last couple of weeks. "We want to play a real good match there."
So far BVB have only lost the first away game this season, and not only played well, but also picked up points at top clubs recently: 1-1 at Leverkusen and Bremen, 2-1 at Hoffenheim, 3-1 at Wolfburg and, at the start of the second half of the season, 3-1 at Cologne. Okay, Cologne are probably not one of the Bundesliga´s elite teams, but a win is a win...BVB are on top - also in the away table.
However, last week´s 1-0 win over Hamburg still left some room for improvement. "There were a few things we could have done better," said Klopp, who´s been practicing these things in training all week, though he had to do without Kuba and also Sven Bender, who´s definitively ruled out. And so Klopp is forced to become "Bob the Builder" and make changes to the central defence which looked so solid in recent matches.
Jürgen Klopp was born in Stuttgart, and so far he has lost all four (away) games at his native town (with Mainz and BVB), a fact which didn´t really seem to bother him: "First of all, the longer a streak goes, the greater the chance of breaking it. And I was born by Caesarean and only spend the first two weeks of my life there before moving away..."
 | | In a good mood despite the weather: Jürgen Klopp and his assistant Zeljko Buvac. |
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