Eintracht Frankfurt continue to find themselves in a league crisis. After the 0:2 in Bochum, coach Oliver Glasner was disillusioned, especially when looking at the numbers.
Leading player Sebastian Rode had clear words. “We didn’t take the fight as we had planned,” said the midfielder after the final whistle on “DAZN”. “You see Bundesliga football from Bochum against a harmless Eintracht.”
An assessment that his coach certainly shared, looking at the statistics for the deserved defeat at the promoted club. “We ended up with 40 per cent of duels won, then it’s not enough,” he clarified. The number “says a lot”, the Austrian continued. “That’s where you have to push through, that you have outnumbered situations. “
Dismissal for Rexhbecaj? “The video referee could have looked at it “
In any case, it wasn’t down to his team’s attitude. “The boys tried everything,” Glasner thought. “We had two changes in the first half due to injury, which limited our options.” Namely, this concerned Goncalo Paciencia and Kristijan Jakic, about whom Glasner did not yet have any more precise information, but at least clarified the nature of the injuries: “Paciencia feels the back of his thigh, Jakic took a knock.” But he didn’t want to blame the defeat on bad luck in terms of personnel either: “That would be too easy now, we don’t have to talk ourselves out of it.”
The same applied to a scene in the first half in which Bochum’s Elvis Rexhbecaj had lightly kicked Rafael Borré. “The video referee could have looked at it and then the referee could have decided,” Glasner said, “but it would be too cheap for me to reduce it to that. I don’t want to call for a red card for an opposing player. “
“I hope that everyone has now realised what’s going on in the Bundesliga. “
SEBASTIAN RODE
More problematic was that the exact same starting eleven as in the 3-1 over Piraeus in the Europa League three days later did not even come close to matching Thursday night’s performance. “It’s important, even if you have a highlight game on Thursday, that you are ready on Sunday,” analysed Glasner – and Rode was even more explicit: “On the field you have to make it happen. It’s a full house here, a power-driven game, you don’t always get it on the pitch. That’s our big problem, we have to get rid of that, especially in the Bundesliga. I hope that everyone has now realised what happens in the Bundesliga and how you have to play football there.” Not like on Sunday evening, apparently.
