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Frankfurt / Main (AP) - Eintracht Frankfurt defender Martin Hinteregger likes the challenges in professional football.
“The more pressure, the more responsibility, the better I am,” said the 28-year-old Austrian national player for the Hessian Bundesliga club in an interview with the “Frankfurter Rundschau” (Friday edition).
Therefore, despite six games without a win, he is not afraid of the game against Champions League starter Borussia Dortmund on Saturday (3.30 p.m. / Sky).
«We can beat the big ones.
We are now playing against Dortmund, Wolfsburg and Gladbach - after that we will know whether this thesis is correct, ”said Hinteregger.
“We now want to collect the points that we left behind against the opponents who we are qualitatively superior to.
We have to win games like this if we want to move up. "
It's a bit like Borussia Dortmund: "They also say: They won't become champions because they don't win precisely those games."
He finds it regrettable that BVB top scorer Erling Haaland is injured.
"Against Haaland, that would have been a great fight," said Hinteregger.
He is even more bothered that because of the pandemic, it will be a game without spectators again.
“It hits me the hardest.
It wasn't for nothing that I had the best phase of my career in the last two years here at Eintracht, ”said Hinteregger in view of the enthusiastic Frankfurt fans.
"But that's what I think most players do."
Perhaps there are some who would find it positive to play without fans because they can't handle pressure so well: "I'm the opposite."
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