Overview

• BILD reported he was the only Dortmund player to underperform against Athletic Bilbao, graded him a 4, noted ball losses and stray passes, and he was substituted after 69 minutes.
• Coach Niko Kovač said he was satisfied with the performance overall, acknowledging a few misplaced passes and highlighting the player's work rate and nerves at age 20.
• Dortmund paid about €30.5 million in the summer, and he has largely been used as a rotation option under Kovač with competition from Felix Nmecha and Marcel Sabitzer.
• Excluding Club World Cup matches, local reporting says he has no goal contributions in eight appearances this season.
• BILD published images showing his parents seated apart at the match, and tz.de relayed the tabloid's claim of a tense family atmosphere following his father's earlier complaint at St. Pauli and subsequent apology.