Lars Ricken

Let's start off on the Constantinos Coretsis injury.

As Lars Ricken saying he has a ligament injury in his foot.

He won't be traveling to Baku and won't be able to play against Frankfurt on Saturday either.

It's obviously frustrating, but we'd initially feared the worst after seeing his teammates' reactions.

I just wonder if they have enough depth in attack without, I mean, you go on a certain social media site and you hear all sorts of things about the way Kovac plays football and most of it is very negative.

But, I mean, what is he supposed to do when his two most creative players that were assigned to bring the creativity ahead of the season are out with injuries? then it really is something that you throw back at the decision makers above him and Ole Borg and Lars Ricken, right? Why weren't there no more depth pieces signed to bring that creativity? Ethan Navani has looked really out of depth in the Bundesliga and in the Champions League.

We made the point today that this was the first time Chukwu Emeka played 90 minutes for Dortmund.

In his entire career, because he's never

They've still not quite ironed out.

Um, I managed to sp- I spoke to Lars Ricken as well briefly, the, the CEO at full time, and said, you know, i- is this defeat like particularly frustrating given the run of games that they have coming up?

Mm.

And we've talked about Borussia Dortmund's run of games now in October and November before the next international break.