​What BVB’s players think of their record-breaking week of travel“It’s very demanding, but it’s part of the job. In the end, it’s all about making the best of it, recovering quickly and performing,” said Gregor Kobel after the 2-1 win at Sabah FC. The strain of travelling must “never be used as an excuse,” the goalkeeper added, “but you’d also be lying if you said, ‘It’s all easy.’ You spend a lot of time on planes, in different time zones …”Joey Veerman, whose family lives in the Netherlands, spoke about the journey from Dortmund to Bodø, back to Dortmund, on to Berlin, back to Dortmund and finally to Baku: “I have a family with two children at home. So I went home for twelve hours, then we flew to Berlin. I came back, and twelve hours later we were already flying to Baku again. So it wasn’t exactly the best week, but it’s really nice to finish it with a win.”Head coach Niko Kovac also gave an emphatically positive assessment of the football after the important away win in Baku: “We played really good football. We created lots of chances. We should have scored more goals. That’s the only minor criticism,” Kovac said of the successful third match in the league phase of the UEFA Champions League. He added: “I’m very happy with the way we played in our third away game in a week.”His goalkeeper’s only frustration was also the finishing. “In the end, it was perhaps a little harder than it needed to be,” said Kobel. “We had the chances to score another goal or two earlier on and then have a more comfortable game.”After one final training session in Baku, the team headed back to Dortmund with “clear instructions” from BVB sporting director Ole Book: “Recover as well as possible, eat well, drink plenty of fluids, sleep well.”Boris RupertThis article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇩🇪 here.