Only the cable camera gives up: Eintracht Frankfurt opens its weeks of truth with the finest counter-football.
In the end, Eintracht Frankfurt even received help from above. Just as the previously so sovereign Hessen team started to swim again at Borussia Mönchengladbach, the cable camera buzzing just above the players’ heads went limp.
The result: a seven-minute break, Frankfurt was able to regroup – and the 3-1 (3-0) victory was no longer in danger in the last ten minutes.
“None of us have experienced that, fortunately nothing happened,” said Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner about the strange interruption and reported: “We were able to briefly discuss something again, but it wasn’t decisive now.”
At least on the last point, Daniel Farke disagreed. The interruption shortly after the goal was “not that beneficial”, said the Gladbach coach: “The momentum was just on our side.” But when the rope broke, all hopes were dashed.
Fantastic counter-football by the SGE
Eintracht’s victory was deserved in view of their counter-attacking football, as from the textbook. The strong Dane Jesper Lindström, last season notorious as a chance to kill, scored his first brace in the Bundesliga (6th/45th), the Frenchman Eric Dina Ebimbe his first goal (29th).
The 3-0 was Frankfurt’s highest half-time lead in a Bundesliga away game since May 1977 (5-0 in Essen). Gladbach’s connection by Marcus Thuram (72nd) came too late.
As a reward, Eintracht is now in fourth place and is going into the weeks of truth leading up to the World Cup break with a lot of self-confidence. The penultimate group game in the Champions League is against Olympique Marseille on Wednesday.
“Today was great,” said Captain Sebastian Rode: “But we want to continue that now. It’s going to be really, really hot on Wednesday.”
Flick sees a Mario Götze in World Cup form
In the current constitution, Eintracht can be expected to do anything internationally. Even the opponent paid respect. “I didn’t think Frankfurt would still be in the Champions League at the end of October and fourth in the league,” said Gladbach’s Christoph Kramer: “Eintracht have done a world-class job in the last two or three years. “
This includes the signing of Mario Götze, who again showed a good performance in Gladbach and, in front of national coach Hansi Flick, recommended himself again for a World Cup nomination.
“Sky” expert Lothar Matthäus promptly banged the drum for the 2014 World Cup hero after the game, which Glasner considered with a wink. “Is Lothar still a record national player in Germany?” asked the Austrian smugly: “Then he’s always right.”