FCA boss Baum confident vs Dortmund, aims to bring points home | OneFootball

In the Manuel Baum table, FC Augsburg stands at rank seven. Since the dismissal of Sandro Wagner (38), the Swabians have been steadily climbing up the Bundesliga. With his calm demeanor, the 46-year-old is a completely different representative of his profession compared to his loud and opinionated predecessor on the FCA coaching bench.

Wagner secured ten points from twelve matches with the Fuggerstadt team. Baum, on the other hand, has already collected 21 points from the following 13 games. Bayer Leverkusen (2:0) and Bayern Munich (2:1) have felt the newly awakened strength of Augsburg. Recently, FCA lost unluckily due to an own goal in injury time with 1:2 in Leipzig.

“We showed against Leipzig that we can also perform well against the top teams in the league,” Baum recalled on Thursday at the press conference before the BVB match, referring to the strong performance in the trade fair city. Only the result causes a gloomy mood for the FCA coach: “Annoyingly without reward.” Now his team is looking forward “to proving once again that we can do it against such opponents away.”

“Brutal” Dortmund Quality

Baum certainly does not want to return to Augsburg empty-handed from Signal Iduna Park. “We are going to Dortmund with the goal of bringing points back home,” he reaffirms his ambitions. The native of Landshut goes even further: “We have a realistic chance to win the game, that is the goal.”

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Baum explicitly praises the strength of Niko Kovac's (54) team. The BVB is “rightfully in second place in the table,” says the FCA coach, praising the “brutal” quality of Borussia, “also in depth.” The Swabians want to “stand up against them as a collective.” The 46-year-old adds: “I would find it cool if the opponent says: Augsburg as an opponent, we could do without them now, if only the game were already over.”

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