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Glasner defends worry defense
Eintracht negotiated to the end to get a defender after all: Bayern’s Stanisic wasn’t allowed, Gladbach’s Beyer wasn’t convincing, and in the end there was no suitable candidate.
Because top defender Touré is injured until winter and newcomer Buta (knee surgery) is unlikely to get in shape much sooner, Eintracht is risking the worry defense (already conceding 13 goals in five competitive games).
Coach Oliver Glasner (48), who is obsessed with an average of one goal per game, goes on the offensive. “Defensive weakness? I won’t leave it like that!”
He defends clearer Kristijan Jakic (25) in the unfamiliar position of the right-back: “He’s doing an excellent job.”
Under protects defenders Tuta and Evan Ndicka (both 23): “In Bremen (4:3, ed.) we only allowed two shots on our goal in 60 minutes. Only five offensive actions against Cologne (1:1). I daresay no other team has done that. That speaks for a great defense.”
You can trust the top coach to build a team that works – like last year after the rumbling start.
Above all, he has to eliminate the individual mistakes and the weakness in standards. Glasner: “But I had a wise teacher as a coach who said: ‘If you focus too much on a problem, you make it even bigger…'”