Borussia Mönchengladbach’s wild rollercoaster ride in the 3-3 (0-3) draw in Sunday’s game at Darmstadt 98 left Roland Virkus stunned. The sports director fluctuated between anger and praise. Virkus said he was “colossally annoyed” about Gladbach’s worst Bundesliga start since 2015 and said he was “pissed off” – despite the race to catch up after the break. Fluctuations in performance after the major squad upheaval will probably keep Borussia busy for a longer period of time. “We knew that the road could be rocky; you can’t take it into account that it would be so rocky,” said Virkus, shaking his head. Regarding the scary start of the game against the newly promoted team with no points, he said: “If you play a first half like that, I’m at a loss for words,” and they let themselves be eaten up with an “underground duel rate.” The fact that Gladbach later showed “character” was also due to the controversial sending off of Darmstadt’s Matej Maglica (49th/hand). Then the game ended.
