Aymen Barkok is reminded of beautiful football experiences which, if he has his way, can be celebrated again in a similar form in Frankfurt from autumn onwards.
In terms of “feeling”, the current testing has something of the rhythm that is dictated by the Europa League during the season: “We play every three days,” said the German-Moroccan in the service of Eintracht, and maybe, he added with a smile In addition, there is a system behind it so that you can adjust to the upcoming burden of international tasks at an early stage.
Whereby victory and defeat currently do not have the importance that will be attributed to them in a few weeks' time.
Now the most important thing is that the team and the new coach understand what they have for each other and how they can achieve something together.
Marc Heinrich
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In the third match against a sub-class opponent, the Bundesliga fifth of the previous round achieved the second victory.
The team, which had been completely replaced by coach Oliver Glasner at halftime, defeated the regional league team of FC Gießen 6: 1.
"That was an improvement again today," said Barkok, who entered the list of goalscorers with the goal for the final score (88th minute) shortly before the final whistle;
In addition, Ali Akman (1st), Goncalo Paciencia (7th), who was later replaced, Jesper Lindström successfully completed their attacks after fine preparatory work by Fabio Blanco (63rd), Daichi Kamada (80th) and Filip Kostic (82nd) .
“Everyone knows what to do,” said Barkok, who judged the preparation for upcoming tasks to be a success: “Our preparation is good.
Everyone is up for it, "said the midfielder, who pointed out," that we have a lot of gamblers who are good at handling the ball.
It's just fun to play with the team ”.
Promising offensive options
Barkok is also part of the internal artist group, as Oliver Glasner later explicitly emphasized: "He also makes a very good impression," said the Austrian, who was impressed that he generally had some promising options on the offensive to avoid the departure of Goalgetter André Silva to compensate collectively. "Speed, joy of playing and playing intelligence", he attested in particular to the trio Lindström, Kamada and Barkok, which upset the Giessen defense after the break.
"Everything is included except for a height of 1.90 meters," said Glaser, who gave his technically skilled professionals extensive freedom of design in the opposing penalty area: "In the offensive third, you can do what you want. It is important that they use their creativity. ”The only prerequisites that he linked with this license for the fine spirits is the willingness to follow up after losing the ball and to do your part in counter-pressing. In this regard, he has already seen many successful approaches, said Glasner: “The countdown is on. Everything is on track and I am very satisfied. "
More returnees are expected in team training this Thursday, and the trainer expects them to improve quality: Kevin Trapp, Stefan Ilsanker, Martin Hinteregger and Sebastian Rode just watched Gießen. On Saturday in the game against Racing Strasbourg, Erik Durm is an option again after being given Tuesday and Wednesday off because he and his partner became parents of a boy.