Sportschau: Jobe Bellingham so far one of the season’s underperformers | OneFootball

Actually, Jobe Bellingham's playing time at his new club Borussia Dortmund doesn't look too bad. He has been on the pitch for 777 minutes for BVB across all three competitions. However, his impact has fallen so far short of expectations that his name now appears on a list of the season's big losers, compiled by Sportschau.

In the Bundesliga, Jobe Bellingham, who transferred from AFC Sunderland to BVB in the summer for 30 million euros, participated in all eleven matches as well as the two DFB-Pokal matches. However, his starting lineup rate is low. He has started four times, most recently even twice in a row. The recent matches against Hamburger SV and VfB Stuttgart were the first he was allowed to play for the full 90 minutes.

In the Champions League, this happened once, in the away game at FC Copenhagen. In the premier class, the brother of former BVB player Jude Bellingham also participated in all five matches, but four times only for a very limited time. The reason coach Niko Kovac doesn't rely on the midfielder more often is that he rarely displays the quality that would advance BVB.

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Far from the quality of his brother Jude

This is how Sportschau sees it, which in its justification for naming Jobe Bellingham as one of the losers of the season states that he shows "performances where Jobe can't even remotely match those of Jude in Dortmund. Certainly not the strength of the time immediately before the move to Real Madrid, but also not when Jude Bellingham first arrived at BVB."

He doesn't lack support. The BVB officials repeatedly try, with sincerity, to cast his performances in a better light than they actually deserve. However: "The Englishman doesn't make much of his opportunities." The hope at BVB is understandable that this transfer will still become a success story. However, the first third of the season was not such a story. That's why Sportschau names Jobe Bellingham alongside Augsburg's coach Sandro Wagner, VfL Wolfsburg, and the new record red-card offender Dominik Kohr as the losers of this season so far.

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