{"id":103575,"date":"2025-09-25T12:38:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=103575"},"modified":"2025-09-25T12:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T12:38:47","slug":"dortmund-kovac-test-mainz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/dortmund-kovac-test-mainz\/","title":{"rendered":"Borussia Dortmund\u2019s Niko Kova\u010d ready for \u2018tough test\u2019 against Mainz"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a Matchday 1 draw against St. Pauli, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/bundesliga\/borussia-dortmund\/\" data-type=\"category\" data-id=\"338\">Borussia Dortmund<\/a> come into their Bundesliga clash against Mainz on the back of three successive league wins. But Niko Kova\u010d has warned his players of a difficult task, commending Saturday\u2019s opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cMainz has developed tremendously under Bo Henriksen,\u201d<\/em> said Kova\u010d in Thursday\u2019s press conference. <em>\u201cThey played a great game against Wolfsburg and then last week against Augsburg. They\u2019re an unpleasant opponent, a very vocal team. There\u2019s a real danger that they\u2019ll concede a lot of chances against them.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cI expect a tough task but we\u2019re on a good run and want to continue it.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Borussia Dortmund have only won one of their last five Bundesliga games against Mainz, which came under Kova\u010d with Emre Can and a Maximilian Beier brace securing a 3-1 win. In the two games that preceded that, Dortmund conceded three on both occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Borussia Dortmund\u2019s personnel situation<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking in the press conference, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/dortmund-receive-injury-boost\/\">Kova\u010d confirmed that Niklas S\u00fcle and Fabio Silva have been partially integrated in training<\/a>, but that he and his staff would wait until Friday before making a decision on whether or not the duo will feature in the matchday squad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GGFN | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.x.com\/danieljpinder\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Daniel Pinder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a Matchday 1 draw against St. Pauli, Borussia Dortmund come into their Bundesliga clash against Mainz on the back of three successive league wins. But Niko Kova\u010d has warned&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312401,"featured_media":103576,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338,11,53,18],"tags":[476,449,480,1028,2009],"class_list":["post-103575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-borussia-dortmund","category-bundesliga","category-1-fsv-mainz-05","category-news","tag-borussia-dortmund","tag-bundesliga","tag-mainz","tag-news","tag-niko-kovac-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312401"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103575"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103577,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103575\/revisions\/103577"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}