Borussia Dortmund: Thomas Tuchel before his first competitive match BVB – SPIEGEL ONLINE

What left most colleagues her assistant, is the great passion of Thomas Tuchel: Training. When you listen to the 41-year-olds, one has the impression, Tuchel could not get enough, with the stopwatch to stand around the neck on the grass and to conduct the exercises of it.

But now the good time is over, in which each day could be used to tinkering with tactics and technique and the players to shape according to his ideas. Now must be played – even if Tuchel, as he himself says, would have liked to work even longer to the basics.

In the evening Borussia Dortmund meets for the first competitive match of the season and thus the first under Tuchel to (kick-off 21.05 clock, live ticker SPIEGEL ONLINE). Am Wörthersee BVB plays in the third qualifying round of the Europa League. All this already sounds not by very large football, the opponents even less:. Wolfsberger AC from Austria

“The favorite part is adversity”

But Tuchel learn so ever know what will bloom him this season mostly: Dortmund is a big favorite in the game. In Mainz Tuchel could actually always planning from the outsider. “The fact that we have the role as favorite, a contretemps,” says Tuchel: “We have a lot to lose.”

First of all self-confidence. The preparation went well, against FC Lucerne (4: 1) and Juventus (2: 0), there were convincing wins and partially really good football. However, only in friendly matches. Whether the regained self-confidence would survive a stumbling start in Klagenfurt?

According to Tuchel it comes “to find the right mix between tension and a certain looseness”. No fear of failure, then, but concentration on our own strengths: “Our task is to face the adversities, to overcome them, to assume the role and with all his might to try to accommodate our game.” Mats Hummels announced the “Kicker” even to tackle the game, “as it would be at least a Champions League quarter-finals.”

For many players should provide an extra motivation that coaches and athletic line emphasized repeatedly to still want to reduce the squad. Unlike the tests the grid against Wolfsberg will also have significance in terms Tuchel tendency. “The closer back the competitive matches, it is also hard decisions give” the coach had already announced.

Tuchel praises the Austrian football

The defender Neven Subotic and Erik However Durm missing definitely due injuries. World Champion Kevin Grosskreutz, returnees Moritz Leitner and veteran Oliver Kirch are not in the squad. In midfield Tuchel will probably rely on Ilkay Gündogan and Henrikh Mkhitaryan. Access Julian Weigl also played an impressive preparation. In any case, the team will still have to find, as the Austrians, who have a league match behind, benefits.

“This is a very well-rehearsed and homogenous team,” Tuchel said: “In addition, the Austrian football has made tremendous progress.” What happens when you underestimate the Wolfsberger, recently received the FC Schalke at 1: felt 3 in the test. And in the second Europa League qualifying round against Shakhtar Soligorsk (1: 0/2: 0). Leaving the team coached by Dietmar Kühbauer a strong impression

In addition, the Borussia must reckon with a highly motivated opponents for which the two games are the reward for the most successful season of the old club history. “Borussia Dortmund – this is the game of the year for Carinthia and for the whole team,” said Wolf Mountain President Dietmar Riegler. Coach sees Kühbauer be valued at a market value of less than ten million euros Team at least mentally at an advantage: “We have nothing to lose.”