Excitement in Mönchengladbach: it shows how sick our society is

A week of conflicting sensations is located behind the members of Borussia Mönchengladbach, who can look forward, actually over a wonderful success. On Wednesday they have reached in front of the TV, your main goal for the season: Because of the FC Bayern and Bayer Leverkusen are in the Cup final, they will participate in the upcoming game of the year for sure in the group stage of the Europa League, even if they still crash on the sixth place of the table. "Four days before the end, this is an exceptionally good result", says Max Eberl. But the joy at the table is the fourth on this fine success was in the days before the big duel at FC Bayern this Saturday (18.30 clock in the F. A. Z.-Liveticker of the German Bundesliga and Sky) by a couple of incidents gloomy, make the sports Director angry.

in conjunction with the 1. FC Köln, Borussia Dortmund and Schalke 04 have turned the Gladbacher a Video in which they state their clear stance against racism, and a violent storm swept over the Gladbach away. "This shows how sick our society is, if we have then are such Statements under that heading in the other direction," says Eberl ahead of the game in Munich, about the many racist, hateful and inhumane comments, with which some people responded to the message of peace. He would "wish that you manage to find these people and punish them and banish them from our society", says Eberl. "The lost in our society nothing, having lost at Borussia Mönchengladbach nothing."

important points

But only for the club to unexpected reactions to the Video annoy the company during this crucial stage of the season. In the past week, you have lost 0:1 in Freiburg only three important points, but also their striker Alassane Pléa, the last was so brilliant in Form. The memory of that Yellow-Red card still leaves the bare anger rise in Eberl. "It was neither a bad nor a tactical Foul", but a Foul with consequences. In Munich, Gladbach have to forego the first half of your congenial Sturmduos Pléa/Marcus Thuram. And Eberl is also missing on the bench, because he looked after the place reference for the striker, the first Red card to a functionary in the Bundesliga history, the "substantially justified" was, as the sports Director himself admits. He had equipped his spontaneous referee criticism with an expression of "foul language".

The game in Munich is therefore not just a technical-tactical level exciting. Also interesting is the question of how the Team of Marco Rose deal with the moods of those days. "The Plan is to have the courage to try myself also, to have the Ball to work consistently against the Ball," says the coach. But a certain amount of fear of a defeat would not be surprising. Because Borussia Mönchengladbach is playing the best season in years, with an exciting squad full of special players. You urgently want to play more than just in the Europa League. Duels with opponents of the thickness of the FC Bayern need his team-namely, "in the best case, not only twice a year, but eight-, ten -, or fifteen times," says Rose, "because we are developing so personally, to each player himself, and we also as a team."

the Gladbachern your request to the king class football so this is less about money and fame; the many brilliant footballers, at the beginning of their international careers, we need the competition against the Best in the world, in order to unfold their full potentials: Thuram, 22, Breel Embolo, 23, Dennis Zakaria, 23, Florian Neuhaus, 23, or Nico Elvedi, 23, are located at points in their careers, where the breakthrough into the ranks of international top players are able to create. Another year in the Europa League would be for the professionals and the coach after this season is not only a great disappointment, but a setback for personal development.

the Trouble with the mönchengladbach-based managers can be explained through small adversities, which could have at the end a great influence on the medium-term future of the club. Pléa was flown at the game when direct rivals RB Leipzig in February with a controversial Yellow-Red card from the place that Borussia had led to this point in time, 2:1 and had to 89 in. Minute number of the compensation to cope with. Without this hit, you would now be level on points with the Saxons instead of three counter worse. Now they experienced a similar Situation in Freiburg, again valuable points were lost, after a brilliant half. I did "really hurt," says Rose, and Eberl explains: "In big Games, when it comes to small little things that are like the decisions to the other side."