This is the perfect example of haveing a selective view like Balu mentioned. To suit your agenda you change the definition of open play. Open play is every situation or chance created from the running game flow, so in short every chance outside set pieces. Counter or transition situations are obviously part of that, especially if you can create them even against deeper lying teams and with more possession like we did against Gladbach on Sunday.
In terms of created chances, we were the second most successful Bundesliga team in the last season, with and without set pieces. In terms of scored goals from open play, we were third place one goal behind Hoffenheim with their near suicidal play style. We scored nine goals more than Wolfsburg from open play and around half a dozen more than Gladbach. These are the facts. I even wrote them down a couple of weeks ago in this very thread as response to one of your posts. This post was of course never answered by you and instead you continued spouting wrong facts about Dortmund.
We get it. You don´t like, maybe even despise Borussia Dortmund and Jürgen Klopp. Fair play. You have the right to do so like everybody else. But when the obvious antipathy leads you to bend or even break facts to an extend, that not only neutrals but even Bayern supporter call you out on it, then you are in serious danger of not been taken seriously anymore in that matter.
I´m honestly already at this point.
Nobody will argue against you that Borussia Dortmund is in terms of league form not the current number two in Germany. However, the strength of a club or team is not measured over ten play days. Teams can get into slumps and not perform to their usual level because of various reasons. Saying that we overperformed over two seasons is quite frankly nonsense. Football teams don´t perform above their level over such long time spans. In Dortmund´s case it even had to be four years, because that´s the time frame where Dortmund was among the top 2 in Germany. On top of the success on the pitch both domestically and internationally, we underwent a clear growth in financial power, size, popularity, squad strength and reputation, which puts them as the "best of the rest" in the Bundesliga in pretty much every experts´ book.
Judge them at the end of the season. That would be at least slightly more reasonable, but even that would not be that suitable for a full analysis of a club´s strength. Stuttgart or Wolfsburg did not become the top dog of the league by winning it once, neither did Bayern lose that status after one season outside the CL. You need more consistent success or lack of it to really gain or lose a certain status.
He's too good for the 2nd Bundesliga. Amazing game again from him again today. 1860 lose again.
