Even a two-door leadership comfortable on the paper, Borussia Mönchengladbach did not reach on Saturday night to take some countable from Stuttgart. Afterwards, record international Lothar Matthew with the foals went into court.

After Marcus Thuram had achieved the 2-0 for Borussia Mönchengladbach in the top duel of the 25th Bundesliga matchday, the club from Lower Rhine seemed clearly on the winning road. Against the knee deep in the relegation sumping VfB Stuttgart presented the guests of ice cold, the liberation in the stranger was tangible.

In the episode, however, the team of coach Adi Hütter did not fall completely for the first time this season and at the end actually went with empty hands from the field. A circumstance, the Lothar Matthew, who pursued the game in his role as a TV expert for “Sky”, brought to the palm tree.

“Football is a team Lothar Matthew. The best example is the scene before 3: 2 when Thuram is simply leaving his opponent and stopped his counterpart,” the 60-year-old reached the scorers of the second goal directly.

The behavior of the French show “the teammate, who does not have a goat,” Matthäus, who felled a devastating verdict over the Gladbacher: “He already has this shelterlessness for the whole season.”

Matthew: Services of some Gladbach professionals a “bottomless impudence”

Nevertheless, it is “not only Thuram, but also other players,” says Matthäus. He was disappointed by “some players”, whose performance was a “bottomless impudence towards the team and the fans”.

His ex-club looks at the 1990 world champion now on the crossroads. “Gladbachers have celebrated many successes in recent years, so you have to be honest with each other now. You have to put more on young players from their own foal stall and not on players who have no escape,” Matthew advised the Borussen putting in the relegation fighting.