{"id":46249,"date":"2025-04-10T17:36:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=46249"},"modified":"2025-04-10T17:36:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T14:36:16","slug":"kovac-dortmund-deserved-to-lose-against-barcelona","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/10\/kovac-dortmund-deserved-to-lose-against-barcelona\/","title":{"rendered":"Kova\u010d: Dortmund Deserved to Lose Against Barcelona"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Croatian coach Niko Kova\u010d, head coach of Germany\u2019s Borussia Dortmund, did not hide his disappointment and admitted that his team deserved the 0-4 defeat at the hands of Spain\u2019s Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dortmund now faces an extremely difficult task in the return leg next week, especially as their former Polish striker Robert Lewandowski scored twice for the Catalan side.<\/p>\n<p>Kova\u010d told DAZN: \u201cQuite clearly, we deserved the loss.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cWe conceded one goal due to individual brilliance, and three from counter-attacks\u2014that\u2019s too many. We simply cannot lose the ball like that; it\u2019s part of the problem, but we must make better decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Croatian coach explained: \u201cThere are certain things you get punished for at this high level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Croatian coach Niko Kova\u010d, head coach of Germany\u2019s Borussia Dortmund, did not hide his disappointment and admitted that his team deserved the 0-4 defeat at the hands of Spain\u2019s Barcelona in the first leg of the Champions League quarterfinals on Wednesday night. Dortmund now faces an extremely difficult task in the return leg next week, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46250,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46249\/revisions\/46250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}