Borussia Dortmund is coming to terms with its bitter cup exit in Wolfsburg. Bastian Schweinsteiger can’t resist commenting.

Nuri Sahin looked badly shaken, and no wonder: it was only half an hour after Borussia Dortmund’s bitter cup exit at VfL Wolfsburg in extra time when the coach stepped up to the microphones. “We are extremely disappointed, we have to process all 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 for its coach continues after Jonas Wind’s late goal in the 117th minute of the second-round match. Dortmund has lost its last three away games in the league and is now out of the competition after being eliminated in Wolfsburg. “We really wanted to go to Berlin,” said Sahin. That dream is now over. “Everything is coming together right now, we have to keep going. Things aren’t going well on the pitch at the moment. Tomorrow morning, we’ll pick up where we left off.”

ARD presenter Alexander Bommes tried to segue after Sahin’s last sentence and passed the ball over to ARD expert Bastian Schweinsteiger, 2014 World Cup winner. “Basti, you know how it is,” said Bommes: “When something is irretrievably over in a knockout game, there’s a really nasty pain.” But the former national player just smiled. “I don’t know that feeling very well,” Schweinsteiger replied smugly. The midfielder has won the DFB Cup seven times, is highly decorated – and was alluding to precisely that.

Schweinsteiger fears that “difficult days are ahead for Dortmund. They have to give their all in the next two or three games, otherwise something could happen,” said Schweinsteiger, referring to the crisis. Overall, he said, Borussia’s performance in Wolfsburg was “not good enough.” On Saturday, BVB will host RB Leipzig in Dortmund.