Dusseldorf - Disabling alarm at the Borussia: Gladbach 1:3 decreased during the test match at Derby in Dusseldorf! "It's a long time since we have so conceded defeat," said coach Jos Luhukay, "Fortuna was just more aggressive."
What particularly irks him: Even after the fourth and final test ahead of the return lap start on Friday against Kaiserslautern he has not yet found a replacement for the injured intelligence chief Roel Brouwers (meniscus surgery). The experiment with midfield man Sebastian Svard on the side of the foreign central defender Filip Daems retrained for went wrong. Fortuna striker Christian Erwig ran away Daems, Svärd against Andreas Lambertz came too late - then fell 0-1 at third division.
Svärd and Daems Luhukay redeemed during the break. Sebastian tried out shafts, withdrew Patrick Paauwe and Eugen Polanski had a chance in the defensive midfield. But does not work either. Excavate asleep before Sebastian Heidinger 0-2, made his misfires with the least 1:2 up for it.
But Dusseldorf responded with a clever counter-football on the wing, Polanski tackles against Claus Costa into the void - that is 1:3. 3000 Fortuna fans sang: "Second Division, no one knows why." Congratulated Luhukay fair: "We deserved to lose. Dusseldorf, at this form. "Gladbach it does not.