Niko Kovač
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Nov 3, 2026
Alexi LalasHOST
You don't think that Dortmund has a chance of
David MosseHOST
a title? No, but I do think Niko Kovac is doing a really nice job because on paper, that's not an impressive squad.
David MosseHOST
I'm sorry.
David MosseHOST
It's just a bunch of pretty good players.
Emma JonesHOST
Are there any sort of teammates, former teammates, managers that you do actively keep in contact with?
Lukas NmechaGUEST
Yeah a lot to be honest like a lot of my friends are former teammates I've stayed in contact with former coaches before it's like quite quite nice to just catch up on certain things and yeah for example at Wolfsburg we had Niko Kovac and he then went to Dortmund and he brought my brother across so it's it's good to keep them bonds and it's just as nice to catch up as well like
Simon GraysonHOST
Did you give your brother a good reference to him? I gave him a good
Lukas NmechaGUEST
reference but we were both at Wolfsburg together so he had that already but yeah it's just good to stay in touch and the football world is quite small and outside of that people don't often understand what kind of what we go through so it's nice to have that It's
Joe LowryHOST
I enjoyed the chaos of it.
Joe LowryHOST
I enjoyed Dortmund kind of half-heartedly man-marking all over the field and it not really working for Niko Kovac, but also I guess it worked enough.
Joe LowryHOST
I guess I enjoyed seeing Bayern's depth options.
Joe LowryHOST
I didn't enjoy seeing all three of their starting attacking midfield band have to come off the field at various points in time in this game with injury.
Graham RuthvenHOST
As I say, I think Bayern are on another day, win this game comfortably, but Dortmund are, they're still there, man.
Graham RuthvenHOST
Like, you look at the Bundesliga table, they're flying under the radar a little bit because both teams are unbeaten through eight games.
Graham RuthvenHOST
Even going further back than this season, Dortmund have lost just one of their three away games against Bayern under Niko Kovac.
Graham RuthvenHOST
This is a sustained period of consistency from a team that is famously inconsistent.
Mark BroadhurstHOST
What would have been a fortunate effort off the bar because he basically slipped over as he hit the pole, but it still clattered off the bar.
Mark BroadhurstHOST
But yeah, Rory, for me, feathering the cap for Kovac, Not going all the way of De Bayern at the moment.
Mark BroadhurstHOST
Obviously, that's the third draw in the Bundesliga.
Mark BroadhurstHOST
They've already drawn two out of the three games in the Champions League as well.
Rory PetreHOST
Oh, well, yeah, Dortmund are the happiest.
Rory PetreHOST
They say, you know, joint top, just below them on goal difference.
Rory PetreHOST
You know, that's, yeah, as you say, feathering the cap of Niko Kovac, I feel.
Rory PetreHOST
You know, you mentioned the injuries of Bayern.
Andy BrassellHOST
It was really interesting.
Andy BrassellHOST
Like last season, Niko Kovac, and we've said it before, Job is really his cup of tea.
Andy BrassellHOST
You know, he likes...
Andy BrassellHOST
Young guys who can get around the pitch and, you know, keep up with the sort of unreasonable physical demands that he puts out there for them.
Chuck SmithHOST
Maybe not as much about Bayern Munich as it did Borussia Dortmund.
Chuck SmithHOST
Now, when we look at Dortmund in this matchup, Niko Kovac had his guys ready to go.
Chuck SmithHOST
Gregor Kobel was an absolute dynamo in between the sticks.
Chuck SmithHOST
We've known he was good.
Chuck SmithHOST
His positioning can be kind of questionable at times.
Chuck SmithHOST
But when you've got two guys like Anton and Schlatterbeck guiding you along the way, it gives you a little bit of room to make those mistakes.
Chuck SmithHOST
And I know a lot of people will think about Niko Kovac and the hashtag scumbag gene from so many years ago at Bayern Munich, but Gadot kind of had that yesterday.
Chuck SmithHOST
He was looking to be chippy, to kind of start some things and try to get under Bayern Munich's skin a little bit.
INeedNoNameHOST
And because of that, our play was slow, it was disjointed, and it wasn't really going the way it should have been.
INeedNoNameHOST
At the same time, you had Niko Kovac on the other end.
INeedNoNameHOST
He was coaching his team to be more physical, to be aggressive in certain things, and to be extremely cynical.
INeedNoNameHOST
He'd be extremely cynical in terms of how they tackle, in terms of how they challenge, in terms of how they do the 50-50s, because there are multiple ways you can handle a 50-50 situation.
INeedNoNameHOST
And on top of that, he made sure that a lot of our players were just constantly being beaten up.
INeedNoNameHOST
You could see, like if you watch Urbic carefully in the replays of this game, like how many times players like Dortmund players or just players in general just barged into him.
INeedNoNameHOST
That was ridiculous, and that was clearly a tactic intended by Niko Kovac.
INeedNoNameHOST
So, let me go through this one by one, because they're technically two different things.
Virginia RamírezPANELIST
Así que estaremos viendo quién le quita el invicto a quién.
Pollo ElizondoPANELIST
Llegan en plan de líderes, pero la realidad es que el Borussia Dortmund del equipo de Niko Kovac ha dejado muchas dudas porque ha sacado ciertos resultados positivos, pero de último minuto, con cierta fortuna.
Pollo ElizondoPANELIST
Nada te hace feliz.
Pollo ElizondoPANELIST
Es una máquina.
Manuel VethHOST
Not everyone likes the way Kovac plays football.
Manuel VethHOST
Remember when we talked to Niko Kovac before the season, he said, well, we'll look at six, eight game periods and then see where we're at.
Manuel VethHOST
Match day eight, they're joined at the top of the table by Munich.
DanHOST
And I think
DanHOST
So, this is what we want.
DanHOST
We want to see more of that.
DanHOST
Under Niko Kovac, there has been, he hasn't had a lot of big victories over Bayern, but Dortmund have always been competitive, and I think that's the main thing.
DanHOST
I think having seen so many times when Dortmund just kind of get the fear when they play Bayern, this is great.
Kevin HatchardHOST
But it's about Dortmund showing up and showing they can compete, isn't it?
Jack CollinsGUEST
I've been quietly impressed with quite a lot of what Borussia Dortmund have done at the start of this season, right? Like it feels like Niko Kovac has them in a decent place.
Jack CollinsGUEST
And I think there was a lot of consternation, you know, obviously, especially with the injuries earlier on in the season about who was going to pick up the half spaces, who was going to create in those roles.
Jack CollinsGUEST
And they haven't been brilliant, you know, in terms of every game that that nil or draw with Union was remarkable.
Jack CollinsGUEST
And it looked like there was a good relationship or a good partnership blossoming between him and Jurassi.
Jack CollinsGUEST
But I don't know if that leaves you a little bit short in the creative area.
Jack CollinsGUEST
So I'm interested to see what Niko Kovac does here.
Jack CollinsGUEST
My hunch is that he will go slightly more conservative than perhaps he has done in other games.
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