Gladbach's Plunge to Record Level - and Little Hope

Borussia Mönchengladbach remains in crisis in the Bundesliga, although the club has already changed coach. There is little to suggest that this will change soon. From Sebastian Hochrainer restart after a long international break? Failed! The Trainer Effect? Fizzled! The Injured List? Long! The services? Weak! And then the realization that basement teams have so often: If you have shit on your shoe, you have shit on your shoe. Because bad luck with referee decisions rounds off the complete crisis at Borussia Mönchengladbach. Gladbach's problems remain with new coach In the second game under Alexander Blessin there was the second 1:2 defeat against the TSG Hoffenheim. In the previous week, the new coach had warred that in the derby defeat at the decisive goal by Said El Mala a clear foul game was not punished, in his opinion, in the basement duel there was again a debatable and decisive situation. At the stand of 1:1 Gladbach wanted a penalty because Oliver Baumann jumped in the face of Kevin Diks, but there was not. The Borussians have not rented the luck at all, but to stiffen on it would be the completely wrong approach. Because the crash is homemade, what the team shows on the pitch is simply not enough. Under Eugen Polanski the game was too wild, under Blessin the danger is missing in the game forward. Both approaches are unsuccessful, but currently it is not in sight how it should be better. Small improvements under Blessin are not enough because even in terms of injuries, the downward spiral is currently felt endless. Isac Lidberg had to beat Hoffenheim after 50 minutes from the pitch after he had just initiated the compensation. He is Gladbach’s last real center forward, because Tim Kleindienst will continue to fail due to a muscle fiber tear. With Ko Itakura, Jan Leszczynski, Jens Castrop, Enzo Leopold, Fritz Fleck and Franck Honorat, the amount of injured is already amazing. Blessin has not managed to deal with these circumstances in such a way that there is the change in Gladbach. It is obvious that the former coach of FC St. Pauli has made a difference, the defensive has already become more stable. But in the overall picture, the improvement is quite manageable, the defeat against Hoffenheim could also have been clearer, considering the overweight of opportunities of the TSG. Gladbach on the way to the only minus starting record The result is an inglorious starting record, only three times had a club lost before Gladbach the first six games of a Bundesliga season. And there is little to suggest that the descent ends next Friday (23.10.2026, 20.30) at the VfB Stuttgart - which is also in crisis, but even for Hoffenheim Gladbach was a good opponent of construction. And neither mood nor self-confidence or personnel situation will improve great by then. "In our situation, only points count and we did not get them again," goalkeeper Moritz Nicolas told WDR after the game against Hoffenheim. “Currently, every word is too much, we urgently need to make sure that we score.” It is a brutally frustrating situation for all of us, us players, the fans, the club. We have to make sure that we get points quickly and get out of there. Blessin: "We are not given anything right now" Apparently the fans have also lost faith in this, after the whistle there was rather a non-reaction of the appendix, even the anger has evaporated, it seems to spread the feeling of powerlessness. I’ve said two things to the guys in a circle: If I’m scared and just play back passes, I don’t have to expect to get the fans back. I also became wild, Blessin said about the phase at the end of the first half, after which there had been whistles, in the WDR interview. What also gave him this feeling: At the goals we did not get into the duels and back off, do not stay on the opponent. These are things that are severely punished. This is a concatenation of things that are currently going in the wrong direction and that ensure that, as in Cologne, you lose a game that you do not have to lose. We are not being given anything, we have to work hard. But this work is not bearing fruit so far - and this could remain so. Our sources: Observations of the WDR reporter on site Broadcast: "Defeat also in the cellar duel: Gladbach loses against TSG Hoffenheim", WDR.de, 19.10.2026, 0:00 clock