'Immature' Dortmund not ready for Bundesliga title, says Sammer

Augsburg's Ji Dong-won celebrates scoring their second goal with team mates as Dortmund were on the losing side. Photo: Michael Dalder/Reuters

Augsburg's Ji Dong-won celebrates scoring their second goal with team mates as Dortmund were on the losing side. Photo: Michael Dalder/Reuters

Published Mar 2, 2019

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AUGSBURG – Bundesliga leaders Borussia Dormund are

lacking the maturity needed to be champions, club adviser Matthias

Sammer has said following their shock 2-1 defeat at fourth-bottom

Augsburg on Friday.

Mistakes in defence led to both Augsburg goals, with South Korean

forward Ji Dong Won scoring either side of the break before Paco

Alcacer's 81st-minute consolation.

Sammer, who as a player with Dortmund won two Bundesliga title before

winning a third as club coach, said young players were making

mistakes.

"That's what makes champions – and at 19 or 20 you can't be a

champion," Sammer said of the youthful Dortmund squad in comments as

TV pundit for Eurosport.

Dortmund were going into games with the public perception they were

already champions "but they are immature, they are just immature."

The game was not decided on the pitch "but in the head," he said.

"In this sort of game you have to reach 90 or 95 per cent – 60 per

cent is not enough.

"In games like these against Augsburg, Dusseldorf, Hanover or

Nuremberg, Borussia are not behaving like champions but like an

average team in the Bundesliga."

Dortmund, who host Tottenham Hotspur in their Champions League last

16 second leg on Tuesday hoping to overturn a 3-0 deficit, have now

won only one of their last seven games in all competitions.

Later Saturday they could see champions Bayern Munich, who visit

third-placed Borussia Moenchengladbach, draw level with them on

points.

dpa

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