Eintracht Frankfurt: discouraged bankrupt

Eintracht Frankfurt lose despite leadership in Wolfsburg and Europe can ditch the makeup, with good reason.

Frankfurter Eintracht may bury its international ambitions until further notice. On Friday night, the Hessians were rightly defeated by VfL Wolfsburg 1: 2 (0: 0), they have been waiting for victory for eight games. Coach Adi Hütter’s team won the last three on the day of German reunification (2: 1 against Hoffenheim); it was still almost 20 degrees. After all, the annoying series of draws was broken, albeit in a different way than what Frankfurt had imagined.

In general, the defeat was absolutely justified. Unity was too harmless, unimaginative, and scary. With ideas of this kind, the people of Frankfurt should look back and protect themselves, looking forward is forbidden. “It hurts when two little mistakes are so crucial,” said defense chief Martin Hinteregger: “We defended well, even if we didn’t play the best game up front. We could have won the thing 1-0. But they don’t.

Eintracht Frankfurt: Hütter with a raw lineup

Coach Adi Hütter chose the more defensive lineup variant, which was a surprise, because even against the best teams in Leipzig and Dortmund, the football teacher had opted for more football class and creativity in midfield. Not this time, this time in the absence of the attacker André Silva only bet on one point (Bas Dost) and gave up another offensive force. Carefree dribbler Aymen Barkok stayed on the bench, instead Hütter brought in Sebastian Rode and Djibril Sow, as well as Stefan Ilsanker as clarifier. Not a good idea, the already controversial Ilsanker played an important role in both goals conceded.

With seven games without a win (five draws in a row), the lineup was a bit strange anyway, a sign of a change, a sign of victory is not sent like that. It was clear to everyone that you have to score three times if you don’t want to completely lose sight of your own international demands.

Eintracht Frankfurt is on the defensive against VfL Wolfsburg

The precautionary setting did not bring the expected stability, especially in the initial phase, the Hessians swam correctly. At ten seconds, Wolfsburg had taken the first corner, half a minute after the second, and at nine minutes the bell would have sounded a hair in the Eintracht area: Djibril Sow faked a shot by Xaver Schlager, the ball turned a trajectory strangely crooked towards the case – and hit the post. They were allied with Fortuna, the strangely shy people of Frankfurt. Eintracht seemed lethargic, not poisonous and bilious, not even particularly present, although there were a total of eight defenders on the field.

Forward, which was also logical, initially nothing at all, the guests had no access, hardly had any ideas, except Erik Durm, who threw a ball into the back of the Wolfsburg defense, where Sow had run free, but hesitated too much and it was blocked at the last minute.

Wolfsburg remained the most active team, but without having been forceful or determined. Sovereign Frankfurt goalkeeper Kevin Trapp stopped two or three times, and when he got really dangerous again on the Mittelland Canal for the first time, the sides had already changed. First Filip Kostic missed a great opportunity (55), then John Brooks was so free, opponent Hinteregger fell awkwardly to the ground with both hands – reported the Cologne basement and referee Markus Schmidt correctly decided the penalty after studying the video. Bas Dost turned icy (63º).

But Frankfurt was unable to save this advantage over time, as Stefan Ilsanker played hand in the penalty area and Weghorst easily converted the penalty (77th). And then the striker hit again, shortly before the end Weghorst made it all clear (88th) and pushed Eintracht away from Europe.