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German legend Lothar Matthäus has blamed Borussia Dortmund’s woes and poor performances on three gamers particularly, together with Manchester United loanee Jadon Sancho.
Sancho re-joined Dortmund on mortgage final month.
The Englishman elected to finish a brief swap to the Bundesliga in an effort to flee his troubles at United.
Sancho was embroiled in a bitter public spat with Erik ten Hag which resulted within the participant being banned from the primary crew and coaching with the senior squad.
He has had a combined begin to life in Germany since going again. He was superb and confirmed promising indicators throughout his early video games on the Sign Iduna Park.
Nevertheless, in Dortmund’s final two matches, Sancho has been below-par. He got here on late in opposition to Freiburg and missed three huge possibilities, together with a sitter that appeared destined to enter the again of the online.
Throughout Dortmund’s most up-to-date conflict vs. Wolfsburg on Saturday, the United loanee had an uneventful sport and was not in a position to make an influence.
He featured for 80 minutes in a central function proper subsequent to Niclas Fullkrug as Edin Terzic deployed a 4-2-2-2 formation to start out proceedings.
Sancho alternated between the central positions and drifting out to his favoured left-hand facet.
In a Sky90 soccer debate (relayed by Ruhr 24), Lothar Matthäus took a swipe at a few of the Dortmund gamers however particularly Sancho, Marco Reus and Mats Hummels.
Matthäus bemoaned the media hype round Sancho and defined that he can’t be relied upon to solely pull Dortmund out of their present predicament.
The previous European champion and a World Cup-winning captain mentioned, “Sancho can’t be the saviour for me. This has been exaggerated once more by the media.”
“He hasn’t performed for a 12 months. That’s too low-cost for me.”
“I’m bringing in a participant who performed rather well three years in the past, however hasn’t had any match observe within the final two or three years.”
Matthäus added, “Can I count on a participant like that to show across the factor that was carried out mistaken within the preliminary spherical?”
Dortmund are set to return to motion on Tuesday night time after they tackle PSV Eindhoven within the Champions League. Sancho will undoubtedly be eager to place up a a lot better efficiency.
