“Not ideal”
The coaches Thomas Letsch from VfL Bochum and Oliver Glasner from Eintracht Frankfurt consider the scheduling of the direct clash on Friday (8.30 p.m.) after an international break to be unfortunate. “It’s not ideal for us. It’s not ideal for unity. But we have no control over that, so I’ll take it for what it is. Frankfurt have one or two more national players, so you could say that’s good for us. But I don’t give it that much,” Letsch emphasized at a press conference on Wednesday.
SGE trainer Glasner also complained about the appointment: “Of course I didn’t want us to be taken another day after the international break.” The fact that he was only able to train with eleven professionals in the end is “not what you think as a coach.” Eintracht has eleven A and six youth national players in the Bundesliga squad.
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Meanwhile, Letsch addressed further problems: Bochum only had to release five players, “but we have three who usually play further away”. Cameroonian Pierre Kunde will not arrive in Bochum until Thursday afternoon after the game in Namibia and will probably not be part of the squad because he cannot complete a training session with the team before the Eintracht duel.
Simon Zoller, on the other hand, is fit again after making a 25-minute comeback in a friendly against Dutch first division club Twente Enschede (0-1) during the international break. “He’s always very well dressed and looked very good when he was in the last few games,” Letsch said with a laugh about Zoller, who had supported the team from the bench in civilian clothes during his four-week injury break. “But I prefer him to be in the clothes I’m sitting in,” he added. Zoller is now completely fit and will “definitely be in the squad. And of course it’s always an option when it comes to playing from the start.” Bochum is 14th in the table. into the game, while the SBU is sixth. VfL won the first leg on Matchday 9 3-0.
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