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Niko Kovac is certain Jobe Bellingham will get to go up towards his sibling Jude down the road.
Borussia Dortmund beat Mexican membership Monterrey 2-1 on Tuesday to arrange a Membership World Cup quarter-final towards Actual Madrid.
Serhou Guirassy grabbed each of Dortmund’s objectives. Certainly, the striker was the one participant to have a shot for BVB, registering six total.
Whereas Dortmund now prepared themselves to go up towards Los Blancos, they should handle with out Bellingham, who was booked towards Monterrey, choosing up his second yellow card of the match.
It means he’s suspended for Saturday’s conflict with Madrid, dashing hopes of a gathering of the Bellingham brothers.
“I feel all of us noticed that he [Jobe Bellingham] was very disillusioned,” mentioned Kovac.
“I feel he didn’t precisely know that the second yellow card is a suspension at half-time. He was a bit of bit stunned.
“OK, he’s younger. His brother can be younger so I’m satisfied they are going to face one another, possibly subsequent season within the Champions League after which the longer term. The long run is for them.
“The Membership World Cup could be good however now it isn’t. Another person should play for him nevertheless it’s additionally okay.”
Dortmund could have solely had six makes an attempt to Monterrey’s 14, however they amassed 1.61 anticipated objectives, whereas their opponents – who scored by way of German Berterame – mustered probabilities price 0.87 xG.
Kovac feels Dortmund have overperformed throughout the match, however emphasised that it’s a enormous achievement for his workforce to be within the final eight.
He added: “I feel we overperformed. We handed the group stage. That is now on prime.
“It is a bonus for us, and now enjoying towards the most important workforce and largest membership on this planet is an efficient problem.
“I feel that for us, Borussia Dortmund, and likewise for German soccer as a complete, this can be a large, large deal.”
Dortmund’s conflict with Madrid sees them face a coach they’re conversant in.
Xabi Alonso is 4 video games into his Madrid tenure, and Kovac is aware of what to anticipate.
“We all know very nicely. So he labored two and a half years in Germany, and he did a improbable job,” Kovac mentioned of Alonso.
“Now he’s implementing every part he had in Leverkusen at Actual Madrid. So we’re anticipating the identical what we had in Leverkusen, solely with totally different gamers.
“We’re trying ahead to it however you must play soccer for 90 minutes, and if we put every part onto the pitch, similar efficiency as we noticed in the present day, I feel that we’ll have a very good probability.”
