Two goals and a laugh
How the new striker of Eintracht gives hope
Updated on July 28th, 2025 – 5:41 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
In his first game in the Eintracht Stadium, Erencan Yardımcı demonstrates his torrier. His debut is promising.
When Erencan Yardımcı left the field on Saturday in the 75th minute, great applause opened. The appearance of the new striker of Eintracht Braunschweig during the dress rehearsal for the second division start against Hansa Rostock had made a great impression on the around 3,500 spectators in the Eintracht Stadium.
With 4: 1, Eintracht sent the guests home from the north. With his first starting eleven appearance in the BTSV jersey, Yardımcı contributed significantly to this. After just six minutes, the loan from Bundesliga club TSG Hoffenheim had entered the scorer list twice.
In the 5th minute of the game, after a sharp cross from Christian Conteh, he made a long leg and put the ball under contact in the Rostock goal. Less than 60 seconds later, he used a plug -on pass from a central position ice cold to 2: 0.
Otherwise the 1.88 meter tall turkey rubbed, was often the destination of long balls and worked backwards. Yardımcı sometimes had technical problems in a confined space. And: In the minutes before his replacement, the offensive man was visibly at the end. For Hoffenheim, he hadn’t played a single game over 90 minutes last season.
And yet: Yardımcı’s first exclamation mark as a striker of Eintracht gives hope. And he also brought the audience to laugh. In a duel in the second round, Yardımcı lost the ball and remained with supposed pain. When the referee did not intervene, the striker got up and immediately put on the sprint. The audience reacted audibly.
Overall, the successful test against Rostock now gives tailwind before the league start. And that is also due to Yardımcı, who has already indicated that he can stuff the gap that the migrated top scorer Rayan Philippe Riss.