Borussia Dortmund is dealing with the bitter cup exit in Wolfsburg. Bastian Schweinsteiger can’t resist commenting.

Nuri Sahin looked severely shaken, no wonder: the bitter cup elimination at VfL Wolfsburg in extra time was only a good half an hour ago when Borussia Dortmund’s coach faced the microphones. “We are extremely disappointed, we have to process all of this and also have a moment to ourselves. The disappointment is huge, both for me and for the players,” said the 36-year-old.

The crisis at BVB and their coach continues after the late goal by Jonas Wind in the 117th minute of the second-round game. Dortmund have lost three away games in the league recently, and now the elimination in Wolfsburg. “We really wanted to go to Berlin,” said Sahin. That dream is over. “Everything is coming together right now, we have to move on. It’s not going well in terms of the sport right now. It continues tomorrow morning.”

ARD presenter Alexander Bommes tried to make a transition after Sahin’s last sentence and played the ball over to ARD expert Bastian Schweinsteiger, 2014 world champion. “Basti, you know what it’s like,” said Bommes: “When something is irretrievably over in a knockout game, there’s a really bad pain.” But the former national player just smiled. “I don’t know it that well,” Schweinsteiger replied smugly. The midfielder has won the DFB Cup seven times, he is highly decorated – and that’s exactly what he was alluding to.

Schweinsteiger fears that “difficult days are ahead for Dortmund”. They have to perform well over the next two or three matchdays, otherwise something could happen,” said Schweinsteiger, referring to the crisis. Overall, he said, Borussia’s performance in Wolfsburg had been ‘not good enough’. On Saturday, BVB will host RB Leipzig in Dortmund.