Nuri Sahin’s start as BVB head coach has been slow: in the Bundesliga they are only seventh in the table, and the recent 2-5 defeat despite a 2-0 lead against Real Madrid caused a bad mood.

However, if you just look at the home record, you’ll notice that Sahin and his team are doing flawlessly there! All four home games in the Bundesliga were won, including a furious 7-1 win against Celtic Glasgow in front of the home crowd. Makes five games, five wins, 19:6 goals and an immaculate record.

The Black and Yellows don’t have any success away from home: in the Bundesliga they only got one point from three games on foreign venues, plus the aforementioned meltdown against Real Madrid. Only the 3-0 win in Bruges ensures that the away record is not completely catastrophic (excluding the cup game against underdog Lübeck).

Now there is another away game this weekend: BVB is challenged in Augsburg, where the Black and Yellows have repeatedly dropped points in the past. Will Dortmund get their first away win of the Bundesliga season there?

“We won’t be able to take the south stand with us,” said Sahin about the discrepancy between home and away games. Nevertheless, he demanded (via Ruhr News): “We have to get this done.”

The BVB coach cited the game against VfL Bochum as a good example, where his team was quickly 2-0 down, but turned the game around in a more furious manner and ultimately won 4-2. “The energy that came from the stands helped us a lot. You don’t have that away from home,” emphasized Sahin.

“This energy has to come from yourself – and we had problems with that,” acknowledged Sahin, who thus (unintentionally?) once again opened up the infamous mentality question at BVB. “You have to win games away from home, otherwise we can’t achieve our goals,” he said. “We have to play dominantly.”

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