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Makoto Hasebe, 37, leads the team as usual in Frankfurt. The veteran, who has received tremendous confidence from club commanders and managers and is approaching contract extension, also showed a masterpiece performance against champion Bayern. At the age of 37, Hasebe is trying to break new ground.
A few minutes after the start of the match, Makoto Hasebe of Eintracht Frankfurt attacked the opponent near the right side of the penalty area line on the opposing team and took the ball. After that, the attack on Amin Younes was unfortunately unsuccessful, but the captain’s militant attitude spread throughout the team, clearly defining the development of the game for the day.
On match day, despite the midwinter of mid-February, hometown Frankfurt chased Bayern Munich from the first half into sunny Deutsche Bank Park, where temperatures rose to 16 degrees Celsius. Frankfurt’s attack, missed by the injured FW Andre Silva, who scored 18 goals behind Robert Lewandowski in the Bundesliga goalscorer’s championship, was still strong and powerful.
1 While Luka Jović, who was in charge of the upper part, took over the pressure from Bayern defenders David Alaba and Jerome Boateng, Daichi Kamada and Amin Younes under the double roof launched the net of the rival defense with a deft ball handling, Filip Kostic on the left side breaks Niklas Süle on the right side back and cuts through the opposing team many times. Supporting the attacking team were Hasebe, and Sebastian Rode, who returned to the starting lineup in place of Djibril Sow, who was suspended for cumulative cautions. The two handled the game with calm and collected ball handling to take control of the game, despite pressure from Bayern midfielder Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting, Joshua Kimmich and Marc Roca.
In recent years, the Bundesliga club has always been terrified of the dignity of Bavarian players. However, the Frankfurt players, who had won four League matches in a row before the game against Bayern and remained unbeaten in ten matches with a draw, gained unwavering confidence on the pitch and fought openly against the absolute champion.
The opening goal in the 12th minute came after Younes and Kostic brilliantly outscored Jure and Leroy Sané. Kostic, who watched Jure approaching UNES with ease, took a free run behind Sane, and UNES turned around and passed a high-quality pass. Kostic, who received the ball, sent a negative cross to the center of the goal, and Kamada, who jumped in front of his teammate Jović, made contact with his right foot and scored the goal.
And the bonus point in the 31st minute was that Kamada, who picked up Almamy Touré’s side change pass on the right side, turned to Younes behind and finally kicked a daring shot with his right foot from Younes’s outstanding cutting game. . The Bavarian people, who were affected by the fusion of high-level combination and personal skills in Frankfurt, were breathing early in the first half.
■ A new frontier at age 37
Today’s Frankfurt is not a team based solely on counters. A combination of technically skilled players like Kamada and Younes is lined up with speedy players like Kostic and Jović, and a forward who is good at boxing like Silva completes the play. However, in order for such talents to show their individuality at the forefront, it is necessary to prepare before hitting the “stage.” The 37-year-old Japanese midfielder Hasebe was the only one to elevate the coordinating power of the midfield that had never been seen in Frankfurt.
Hasebe in the 2020-21 season seems to have reached a new frontier. At the start of the season, Hasebe was responsible for the Libero of 3, but was forced to wait on the bench for a time under Adi Hütter’s team-building plan, which plans to change generations. However, the commander who was concerned about the team situation where the game in the central area was not stable leaves the maintenance to Hasebe. Hasebe, who wanted to play again voluntarily, made an effort to “calm the ball” here. He changed the style of the team in Frankfurt, which Kamada described as “the feeling of the ball passing over him,” and switched to a tactic of getting the ball into the appropriate area and capturing the opponent in a rational way.
A clear message is included in the route that Hasebe sends. Not only effective vertical passes and side change passes, but also back passes and horizontal passes make a detour. Those who receive a pass from Hasebe will experience the ability to move on to the next play while maintaining their superiority and recognizing their effectiveness. On the other hand, the opponent is dazzled by Hasebe’s illusory pass and is forced to unknowingly withdraw.
Hasebe has been a player with a great ability to understand the situation in battle since he was twenty years old, but it seems that the distance that he can take full advantage of his excellent field of vision has expanded more than before. Even in the game against Bayern, there was a scene where a double-touch mid pass was passed to an ally on the other side almost without looking, but the keen eye of observation said that the golden eagle, which is also depicted in the club’s emblem, it can catch the prey 1,000 meters away.
Furthermore, Hasebe is not at all afraid of physical contact from the other person. Even if the body is hit, the held ball can be placed in the center of the body axis, and even if posture is lost, the ball can be delivered to allies without degrading the accuracy of the pass. Perhaps Hasebe’s current playing strength was cultivated by playing in Libero. The experience of challenging the duel in the finals is certainly alive, and Makoto Hasebe as a midfielder has improved dramatically.
Hasebe has made back-to-back full appearances against Bayern and 1FC Koln in the section above. Hasebe used to say that when he turned 30, he said: “Playing in Volunteer is really difficult. Thanks to Libero, I can play in the Bundesliga even at this age.” I have done. Even in the game against Bayern, while the opponent returned a point early in the second half and launched an additional lunge, he fulfilled the role of Linkman calmly connecting offense and defense without fluctuations. The captain’s dignified appearance would always have encouraged other companions.
■ To the best club in Germany
This season’s Bundesliga was chaos in a good way, as Frankfurt beat Bayern 2-1. The gap between the Bavarian leader and second-placed Leipzig has been reduced to two, with fourth-placed Frankfurt chasing third-placed Wolfsburg with seven points. Above all, Frankfurt will surely see the right to qualify for the UEFA Champions League next season.
Hasebe says.
“Eintrahat, like clubs like Dortmund, Gradbach and Leipzig, has the potential to reach the next level after Bayern, but I also think that we have to participate in the Champions League and other stages every year.”
About seven years after joining the Nuremberg team in the 2014-15 season, Hasebe is convinced of his team, Frankfurt. There is still a long way to go for the new frontiers that it will reach. The thirty-something Japanese Bundesliga continues on an unprecedented path.
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