Even after the next flood of goals conceded, Max Eberl does not want to start a discussion about the coach in Gladbach. However, he is also surprised by the blatant drop in performance.
Sometimes two games are enough to shake a professional team to its foundations. And so, two matchdays before the end of the first half of the season, Borussia Mönchengladbach suddenly has to worry about slipping into the relegation places.
The 1:4 defeat in Cologne and the 0:6 deficit after 37 minutes against Freiburg had caused “a lot of confidence to be lost “, said sports director Max Eberl on Saturday evening in the “Aktueller Sportstudio” – but he was by no means referring to confidence in coach Adi Hütter, but in Gladbach’s football.
“We have lost a lot of confidence”, he said.
“We don’t want to have the ball “
“I’m a bit surprised that it’s happening so quickly, that we no longer play football with confidence,” Eberl put it. “We don’t want to have the ball. Defensively, we don’t defend the way you have to defend in the Bundesliga.” And so goals conceded 11 to 14 within three games followed in Saturday’s 4-1 defeat in Leipzig.
Eberl spoke of an “extreme game of nerves “ in which Gladbach hardly gained any new confidence in the face of their opponents’ superiority. After the surprising goal shortly before the end, Gladbach conceded two more goals. Eberl: “In the second half you at least rebuild a little bit of self-confidence – and completely knock it out of you again in injury time. “
“I don’t want to see anyone pointing at anyone else “
What responsibility does Hütter bear for the glaring drop in performance?“Of course the coach is also responsible, of course I am also responsible,” said Eberl diplomatically. “We are all to blame. I don’t want to see anyone pointing at anyone else. We are all responsible. The team on the pitch can sort it out, of course, but it already has to implement issues that are set by the coaching staff.”
Before the match against Hutter’s former club Eintracht Frankfurt on Wednesday, Eberl therefore also wants to “appeal to the honour of the players”. His demand: “We have to show some balls now. We all have to stand in this wind. “
