Eintracht Frankfurt women get their limits when I ended in the Champions League playoffs against Real Madrid. The captain’s clear words follow.
There are defeats that pain because they are particularly unhappy or undeserved. And there are those that hurt as well because they are surprisingly clear because the limits are clearly shown. Laura Freelang, the Frankfurt captain, had such a defeat to process when she was in the Madrid cabin tour on Thursday evening.
“I am a bit disappointed because I have the feeling that we had more in the tank today,” Freiang told HR-Sport. What meant nothing else than: The team did not give everything in this important playoff second leg against Real Madrid. “It hurts.”
Eintracht does not get going
And in fact, Eintracht was In the clear 0: 3 in the glut oven of Madrid To see astonishingly little. Sure, after seven minutes, Géraldine Reuteler had taken her chance, who knows how this game would have gone. After that, however, little came from the guests. No resistance, no rearing, no physicality. “What we showed today was not enough,” said Elisa Sense.
It would have been a means to get the strong real stars into duels more and to sprinkle tactical fouls when the opponent is too fast. Coach Niko Arnautis also found that the “more mature team” won. “It was also a hammerless, everything has to fit.” Little fit at the Eintracht.
It is not enough for the premier class
Real Madrid, which weakens in the league surprisingly, could never be grasped for the guests. The fast outside Linda Caceido and Naomie Feller decided this one -sided duel. For Eintracht, after two games against Real (1: 2, 0: 3), the bottom line is that it is not enough for these caliber. The quality is not so high that you would have earned a place among the top 18 teams in this continent.
Of course, the lot was “Madrid”, the hardest thing that Eintracht could catch, but there is also a larger picture: in four attempts on the premier class, it is the third failure in qualification.
Trost Prize European Cup
This time, however, the team falls a little softer than last, this time it continues in the newly created European Cup. Eintracht gets in there in the second round, followed by the round of 16. Even if nobody wanted to deal with it in the evening of the defeat that the European Cup is a competition that may be better at the moment that this team can even win.
At the draw on Friday (3 p.m.), a starting field is waiting from adventure trips to FC Gintra (Lithuania), to Breidablik (Iceland) or Vllaznia (Albania) to well -known opponents such as Inter Milan, Sporting Lisbon and Ajax Amsterdam. You can straighten up on that.
Free access demands defiance
The starting point, however, is currently not an easy one, after all, after the XXL break in summer, the team is still clearly in the finding phase, much does not yet fit. And after three defeats, it is under pressure early. All of this moved Laura Freelang from Madrid to a last statement that evening. To one that only gives a Laura free handle.
“I don’t want to lose games anymore. I’m enough now,” she says, her head up, the voice clear. “I want to see a defiance reaction. I expect a defiance from myself. I expect a defiant reaction from the team.” There was nothing more to say that evening. On Monday, the Bundesliga will go to Leipzig at home.
