Ronja Leubner on BVB Women: “You can feel the pressure at BVB” | OneFootball

Borussia Dortmund’s women also successfully mastered their latest task in the Regionalliga West. Away at GSV Moers, the clear bottom side of the table, Dortmund scored half a dozen goals and cruised to an untroubled 6–0 win. Involved in the game and also among the goalscorers: Ronja Leubner, who had shortly before given the BVB website an extensive interview.

Ronja Leubner made it 2–0 in the 20th minute when BVB’s women travelled to Moers on the Lower Rhine. She had also gotten on the scoresheet in BVB’s 7–0 win over SSV Rhade on the previous matchday and now has 11 goals this season. That puts Leubner in 11th place in the Regionalliga West scoring charts, underlining that she has the qualities to be one of the decisive players at this level.

In doing so, Ronja Leubner is building on an already strong first half of the season, in which she was considered one of the winners in the BVB squad — at least according to the introduction to the interview on the BVB website. In the title race, Dortmund now once again has everything in its own hands after league leaders 1. FC Köln II slipped up once. BVB’s women are still three points behind the Cologne side, who have played one game more.

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BVB coach Högner frequently relies on Ronja Leubner

That is also because BVB’s women have dropped a number of points themselves. Leubner believes that is down to the players sometimes acting “too nervously.” Although many of the players already have first- and second-division experience, the team too often lets up when in front and thus misses the chance to put the game beyond doubt.

Having joined in the summer from league rivals FSV Gütersloh, she scored the opening goal in the DFB-Pokal against Borussia Mönchengladbach for her new club right at the start. After that, she was very often in the starting XI, but was substituted almost just as often. Ronja Leubner admits that from around the 60th minute onward she has often no longer been as involved in the game as before, which is why she can understand those substitutions.

She sees her strengths in her sense of space and in being able to read a game. She wants to improve in duels and defensive play. Playing for a club like BVB felt inspiring to her, especially at the beginning. Before top matches like the recent one against Köln II, however, she now does feel the pressure that comes with a club like this — including in the women’s team. At the same time, she says she has now developed good strategies to block out that pressure during the game.

Alongside her commitment at BVB, Ronja Leubner is studying special education and admits here too that she sometimes lets her studying slide a little. She simply enjoys being around people too much. Besides football, she also likes playing games in her free time, especially “Settlers of Catan.”

However, Ronja Leubner would likely have even less time for that in future if she manages to win promotion to the 2. Bundesliga with BVB — something that will be decided very soon.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.