NAfter last Thursday’s 2-1 away win over Olympiacos in the Europa League, Eintracht coach Oliver Glasner ordered his players to relax a bit. The professionals Rafael Borré, Jesper Lindström and Tuta sat on the beach in Athens on Friday with smiling faces. With sunshine and 25 degrees Celsius, you and your colleagues should do something for your “well-being” and your “head”. The wellness program by the sea was only partially effective.
Because back home, Eintracht prevailed in the cold German November gray on Sunday with great difficulty 2: 1 against bottom of the table Greuther Fürth. The bottom line was that the Frankfurters wobbled alarmingly in many game scenes, but they did not fall after a turbulent final phase with great Hessian feelings of happiness. Borré scored the winning goal in the fourth minute of stoppage time – shortly before that, the Fürth team made it 1-1 through Cedric Itten.
He indulged Borré “immensely because he works a lot. In a hectic final phase we fought back, ”said Rode. The duels against Bochum (0: 2) and Hertha BSC Berlin (1: 2) had lost the Eintracht as favorites and in the games against Bielefeld (1: 1) and Augsburg (0: 0) it was only enough to achieve unsatisfactory draws . After their second win of the season at the Ronhof in Fürth, Eintracht, for which Sebastian Rode scored the 1-0 in the 75th minute, is fourteenth in the table with twelve points.
Frankfurt is having an extremely difficult time
After the emotional roller coaster in Fürth, Glasner felt great relief, which had come under fire after the many setbacks in the core business of the Bundesliga. Since the introduction of the three-point scoring for the 1995/96 season, the Frankfurt team had only twice undercut nine points after ten match days. The coach from Austria was blamed for the lack of further development in the game.
Glasner felt, according to his own admission, “the support of the board and the association”. But a recent failure in the league with relegation candidate number one would have increased the pressure on the coach despite the successes in the Europa League. Now Glasner can go into the two-week national team break with some peace of mind. But he will have to think about how he can playfully advance Eintracht.
Even against the badly battered Fürth, the Frankfurters found it extremely difficult for a long time. Five Franconian players have corona, and six professionals are missing due to injury. The newcomer, who has lost all of the past nine matches, had the weakest Bundesliga start in history. At Eintracht, Filip Kostic was back on the pitch after having overcome Achilles tendon problems.
In his twelve appearances across all competitions this season, the Serbian international was involved in seven goals. It was also Kostic who scored Eintracht’s first but harmless shot on goal in Fürth after 14 minutes of play. The Frankfurters saw themselves embroiled in an unpleasant fighting game in which they tried their best to counter. Against aggressive Fürth there was hardly any room for successful actions in the game. Game strategist Daichi Kamada too often failed to assert himself. Instead, Lindström surprised his team after 27 minutes with a tough and dangerous shot at his own goal to corner for Fürth.
Eintracht lacked sophistication, ideas and the will to assert itself. The fact that the outsider from Fürth had 61 percent possession at half-time should make Eintracht think. Their pass rate of 66 percent did not meet expectations either. After all, the committed Fürth hardly had any scoring chances, Eintracht goalkeeper Kevin Trapp was not challenged. He would only have been powerless against Branimir Hrgota’s shot, which narrowly missed the Frankfurt goal in the 43rd minute.
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At the beginning of the second half of the game, the energetic Fürth were in attack mode. They came close to the opening goal in front of 10,250 spectators. On the Frankfurt side, Kostic provided relief, whose shot (57th minute) just missed the Fürth goal. Substitute Almamy Touré also had no luck ten minutes later. The Fürth could not maintain their attack pressure.
Substitute for Lindström Ragnar Ache also missed the 1-0. It was then the substitute for Djibril Sow captain Sebastian Rode, who took the lead after 75 minutes. Trapp’s greatest saving act came when he parried a shot from Timothy Tillman after 87 minutes. He could not prevent Itten’s 1-1 stoppage time. Eintracht was heading for their next setback – until Borré managed to score the 2-1 winner in the finish.
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