{"id":2131,"date":"2014-02-23T18:36:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2014-02-23T18:36:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-23T18:36:28","slug":"my-players-were-complacent-borusia-dormund-manager-klopp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/africanexaminer.com\/sports\/football\/my-players-were-complacent-borusia-dormund-manager-klopp\/","title":{"rendered":"”My players Were Complacent” Borusia Dormund Manager, Klopp"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Borussia Dortmund coach Jurgen Klopp slammed his team’s mentality after their 3-0 Bundesliga loss at Hamburg on Saturday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Faced with a side who had lost their last eight competitive fixtures, Klopp believes his players took the task too lightly, and were punished as a result.<\/p>\n

“There’s an old saying that a good horse only jumps as high as he has to,” Klopp said.<\/p>\n

“Well I hate this saying more than anything. I think a horse should jump as high as it can.<\/p>\n

“We looked at how high we had to jump today and, when we realised that it wasn’t so high, we had already fallen behind.”<\/p>\n

Hamburg coach Mirko Slomka had another explanation for his side’s victory.<\/p>\n

“Taming this Dortmund side takes a lot of passion, will to run, will to fight and the will to keep chasing the ball,” he told Sky television.<\/p>\n

“We did so much of the things we had set out to do. We played like a team and that is what we need.<\/p>\n

“There are certainly still many things we can do better and which we’ve got to work on over the coming weeks.”<\/p>\n

It was nevertheless a step in the right direction for Hamburg, who moved out of the bottom two thanks also to a wonder goal from Hakan Calhanoglu, who lobbed Roman Weidenfeller with a free-kick from near the halfway line.<\/p>\n

“It was magnificent,” Slomka said. “But Hakan can do that; he practises it in training.<\/p>\n

“It’s good when he gives it a go. I thought it was pretty courageous of him because I thought it was best to keep the ball and run the clock down, but scoring a goal’s even better, of course.”<\/p>\n

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