#BVBFCB Postmatch reactions | Favre: “I hope Guerreiro stays”

Borussia Dortmund beat Bayern Munich 2-0 in the Supercup on Saturday night. The Dortmund camp was content with the performance. Here are the postmatch reactions.

Lucien Favre at the news conference: “Obviously we wanted to win this game at home. It was a tough game to win. Bayern were strong, they had 65 percent possession, which is too much.”

“Nevertheless, we had clear scoring opportunities. Three chances in the first half and also some in the second half. We defended well, with patience and compactness. That was key today.”

“Bayern hit a lot of crosses into our box but we defended intelligently. We know that we are good at counter-attacking and that showed today again. In the end, it’s a 2-0 win but it was obviously a tough win. To sum up: we produced too many turnovers. We need to retain possession better so that we have time to breathe.

“Raphael Guerreiro played very well today. At the end of the game, he was a bit tired because he had to defend a lot. He ran a lot. He instigated the second goal, cleverly winning the ball and sending it to Sancho with an outside-of-the-boot pass. It was an important counter-attack. He is a very good, intelligent player. We hope that he stays — but he’ll stay.”

Niko Kovac at the news conference: “Congrats to Dortmund. I thought that we played a solid — not great but solid match. BVB played very intelligently. We gave the ball away needlessly far too often as well. These moments led to goals. We also had two or three great scoring chances.”

“I liked our first half better than our second half. Dortmund has an amazing team and today most of their new signings were absent, which tells you what great squad they have. But we still have two weeks to prepare.”

Michael Zorc: “Both teams took the game very seriously. I thought that it was an interesting game. We defended very well, didn’t allow too many chances and created opportunities from our forced turnovers. We already could have been in the lead at halftime.”

“We arguably still lacked some aggression to win the ball. When we had the ball, we often gave it away too quickly. Nevertheless, we defended well and had a good transition game. We already realised in pre-season that some things work quite well.”

Sebastian Kehl: “We are happy with the title. We were aware of the prestige and that a win would help us to gain momentum. Especially the second goal exemplified our pace on the counter-attack. We played that very, very well.”

“All in all, we had scoring opportunities in both halves. We can be satisfied today, also with the awareness that we still have to tweak a few things here and there. We are looking forward to the first round of the DFB-Pokal and other big tasks like the championship.”

Marco Reus: “A lot of guys were missing today. We want our competition to be at the highest level. We have high aims for the season, which we can only do together. Every one of us has still a lot to learn – especially on the defensive end. We’ll certainly do better in the coming weeks.”

“We have to collectively work to bring the undeniable quality onto the pitch every single time. Now the cup match is next and I’m happy that things finally start again.”

Manuel Akanji: “Obviously, this wasn’t the championship win just yet but we showed a good performance today. If we keep working like this, I’m optimistic about the season.”