Jurgen Klopp has called for a Borussia Dortmund backlash against Galatasaray in the UEFA Champions League on Tuesday.
Dortmund
suffered yet more domestic disappointment last Saturday, surrendering
the lead to go down 2-1 at arch-rivals Bayern Munich.
Their defeat at the Allianz Arena represented Klopp's side's fifth
straight Bundesliga loss, leaving them second bottom of the German top
flight after 10 games.
Dortmund's Champions League form is in stark contrast to their
struggles at home, though, as they head into their Group D fixture with
Galatasaray having taken maximum points from three matches and knowing
that another win will guarantee their place in the last 16.
Klopp saw his side run out 4-0 victors in Istanbul in the reverse fixture a fortnight ago.
And the 47-year-old is targeting a similar level of performance on
Tuesday ahead of a tough Bundesliga meeting with in-form Borussia
Monchengladbach - who remain unbeaten in 18 competitive outings this
term - at the weekend.
"I've already said enough about our situation but I think it's the
right approach to just focus on the next game," Klopp commented.
"In our situation it's not that easy because everyone knows that
we're playing against Borussa Monchengladbach next Sunday. Nonetheless
the only way to go one step ahead is to concentrate on the good things
from the last game.
"We're making developments but the results haven't showed this. In
another situation people probably would say that the performance against
Bayern Munich was really good, because it's hard to beat them and we
had the chance.
"But at the moment we can't say this - we lost and in the second half
we didn't play like we wanted to. But that's why we want to get the
result against Galatasaray and want to improve our movement on the pitch
and then benefit from these things in our game against Gladbach on
Sunday.
"The date of the Champions League game is no problem.
"We focus only on this game and have to forget the other game on
Sunday but we also have to take the positive things from the game
against Galatasaray to the game in the Bundesliga."
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