The derby against Borussia Dortmund is coming up for VfL Bochum on Friday. Here’s how VfL coach Thomas Letsch plans for the game.

Five more games, 450 minutes in the Bundesliga, then the season will be over. Then BVB will know whether it has become German champion. And then VfL Bochum will know whether it will continue to play in the Bundesliga.

Before that, both teams will meet in a derby on Friday (8:30 p.m.). In the sold-out Ruhrstadion, VfL wants to do a little better than in the 1:2 against BVB in the DFB Cup.

There it was a very close duel, this time the VfL also wants to get something countable. The lead over the relegation zone has shrunk to two points. In terms of personnel, there is hardly any reason to complain, because only one player, Philipp Förster, is missing.

VfL coach Thomas Letsch emphasizes before the 90 minutes on Friday: “The best team in the league at the moment is coming. They are in first place. We’re delighted to have BVB as our guests. Friday night, derby, an exciting constellation. What more could you want. “

Perhaps points, after VfL came up empty in the first two games of the season against the Dortmunders. Letsch: “We did it properly in both games against BVB. But we lost those two games. So we have to do even better to score. For that, we need 100 percent of our performance. But the two games were also in completely different phases. Now we are in the final spurt of the season. It’s a home game. We hope that we have learned the right lessons from the duels with BVB to be successful now. “

Whereby VfL also needs the necessary luck, because BVB in normal form should be too strong for the Bochum team. That’s why Letsch doesn’t list any players when it comes to who should be eliminated from the opponent.

The coach explains: “I could list so many of our opponents’ players. Of course, they have real quality. We have to go to the absolute limit, be compact against the ball. But above all, we have to go into the game with confidence and believe in our chances.