Bender relieved to end Dortmund losing streak
Thomas Tuchel's side thrashed Stuttgart 4-1 at the weekend, bouncing back from consecutive defeats, and the midfielder has expressed his delight at the result
Sven Bender admits another Borussia Dortmund defeat "would have been tough to swallow" and has expressed his relief at the 4-1 Bundesliga victory over Stuttgart on Sunday.
Thomas Tuchel's side were beaten 3-1 by Hamburg last Friday before slipping to a 1-0 defeat in last week's Europa League trip to face FC Krasnodar.
Dortmund responded in style to those back-to-back losses, however, with Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scoring twice in an emphatic win at Signal Iduna Park and Bender has now expressed the importance of the result.
"Three defeats in a row would have been a tough one to swallow, so it's good we won," he told Sky.