Eintracht Frankfurt: The team makes Oliver Glasner angry – the coach announces harsh criticism
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OfIngo Durstewitz
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Daniel Schmidt
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Frankfurt’s Eintracht also lost in Cologne after a poor performance, continued the season as a gray midfield mouse and infuriated their coach Oliver Glasner: “Maybe we have to address it harshly”.
Frankfurt – frustration. deep frustration. Everywhere the eye could see. The Frankfurt goalkeeper Kevin Trapp, who only latently tends to be over-ambitious, shouted his anger out into the Cologne evening and hit the grass with his right-hand stroke, four times the same. Eintracht coach Oliver Glasner grabbed the scapegoat Daichi Kamada and gave him an armored lecture on the field before he gathered his entire team in the dressing room immediately. Off to the report, head wash for the losers. 0: 1 in Cologne, pure frustration. The nice Mr. Glasner can also be different. “We were nice guests,” he piped sarcastically.
Half an hour later, someone was supposed to ask him: “It seems like this is the first time you’ve been really mad at your team, or is that deceiving you?” Not deceiving you. “They have a good knowledge of human nature,” replied the 47-year-old, adding more vaguely: “The boys have already heard a little bit about me and they will hear a little bit more from me.”
Eintracht Frankfurt loses at 1. FC Cologne
This 0-1 defeat in the Rhineland in a Bundesliga game at a very manageable level has left its mark on Eintracht Frankfurt, it may represent something of a turning point. At least in dealing with each other, because it is obvious: the time of kid gloves and the cuddly course is over. A troubled coach clearly promises that. “Just stroking and saying: ‘It’ll be fine, it’ll be fine, it’ll be fine’ is not enough. Then it was mid-May and nothing came of it.” And further: “Maybe we have to address it harshly, take a clear look at things and hold the players accountable.” The closed season is over. Glasner tightens the reins. Or maybe he let them slide too loose for too long.
Because the Eintracht balance sheet in the new year is devastating, almost disastrous. She has only four points from six games with a goal difference of 6:11. Contact with the top positions has been lost for the time being, so looking up is out of the question at the moment.
Eintracht Frankfurt out of shape
Eintracht, who started sixth at the turn of the year, tore down everything they had built up with a furious spurt in late autumn in six matches after the winter break: European ambitions. Sports director Markus Krösche hit it offensively, which is not bad, on the contrary. You can calmly raise the bar and articulate ambitious goals if you have them and know that they can be achieved. You don’t have to hide. But the truth on the football field is different at the moment: in this condition, Eintracht is not a candidate for an international starting place, no, in this condition it will sink into no man’s land, end the season as a gray midfield mouse. best cases. Of course, sports director Krösche doesn’t want to add: “We don’t look down. We keep looking ahead. Our goal remains to stay at the top until the end.” Optimistic, the manager. But where does he get this confidence from?
Something seems to have happened with this team, which no longer has a playful line, no penetrating power, no esprit and no offensive spirit; she gets involved in quick-fix football, there’s a lot of poking and haggling involved, no calm and sovereignty at all.
The team has lost its power and untameability. The duel statistics are on a constant medium level. “Once again, we only have a tackle record of 40 percent, we have the worst rate in the entire league,” Glasner complained. “If you don’t win these duels, you lose the game. And we just don’t win the decisive duels.” Which is why Anthony Modeste sent Frankfurt on the boards with his winning goal shortly before the end (84th).
This was preceded by an unfortunate, “inconsistent duel (Glasner) by Daichi Kamada. The Japanese wasn’t having his best day anyway and was substituted on and then off again. The highest street. The fact that Oliver Glasner read the riot act to the playmaker on the field after the final whistle is unusual and always questionable.
One way or another: The Frankfurt game has gotten out of joint, there is no longer anything to be taken for granted, nothing that the ensemble could retreat to. Eintracht is no longer recognizable compared to the last appearances in the old year, the style of play is blurred beyond recognition, many players are chasing their form, which is why the whole construct is shaking. Maybe the team performed at the limit or even beyond their means back then.
Eintracht Frankfurt: Bad body language in the team
In addition, body language is no longer what it should be, and derogatory gestures towards teammates or bickering at each other are increasing. “We mustn’t tear ourselves apart now,” warns Captain Sebastian Rode.
The team concedes too many goals at the back and shoots too few of their own at the front. In the last four games, she has only hit the bull’s eye in the 3-2 win in Stuttgart (two of which were empty by set pieces), three times she went out. That can not be a coincidence. Glasner also sees it this way: “We were outnumbered three times in front of goal and only managed to finish once. That must not happen to us. We don’t have this quality at the moment.”
Worse still: What Glasner is talking about is called half-chances in the jargon; Situations that could have become extremely dangerous if they hadn’t been nipped in the bud beforehand by sloppiness, lack of concentration or incompetence. The truth is that Eintracht only had one real chance to score in each of the last two parties. Jesper Lindström missed against Wolfsburg and Sebastian Rode in Cologne. When it comes to ambitions, that’s too little, far too little.
And on Saturday Bayern are coming to Frankfurt. This could end badly. But also offers a chance for a reversal of the trend – even if not much speaks for it at the moment. (Ingo Durstewitz, Daniel Cut)