“We'll stay calm,” said Markus Krösche on Saturday evening.
The question is: how much longer?
The sports director of Frankfurter Eintracht had experienced his team in a state of incapacity to defend after the 0: 2 against Waldhof Mannheim in the DFB Cup in the second game of the new season.
If something in the defensive behavior of the Frankfurt professionals does not change very quickly, the season goals have to be revised downwards significantly.
Peter Hess
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While Kevin Trapp saved Eintracht from a hefty defeat in the cup battle with the third division club, there was no stopping the national goalkeeper in five situations against Borussia Dortmund. Which was mainly due to Erling Haaland. The star striker from Norway did what he wanted with the Eintracht defense, scored two goals, put on the goals from Reus and Hazard and also had his feet in the game at Reyna's goal, for which the statisticians of the German Football League did not give him an assist. so that the 21-year-old was rewarded with only four scorer points. Not bad either. For Eintracht, the defeat with an own goal by Passlack and a goal by new signing Jens Petter Hauge just before the end was a touch more bearable.
The result of 2: 5 doesn't even reflect the conditions on the field, the difference in performance was significantly greater.
Especially in the first half, when the poison of the indisputable defeat in the cup still really worked for the Eintracht professionals.
Right from the start, Eintracht didn't dare to do anything.
The Frankfurt team refrained from an orderly structure of the game for fear of losing the ball quickly.
It goes well until the 23rd minute
Trapp chose the very long variant beyond the center line on every tee shot, and the defenders also preferred to hit the ball far forward. Which was not entirely pointless, because in fact the Frankfurt short passing game, when it was tried, did not withstand the pressing pressure of BVB. And so the unity, a legitimate challenger for Dortmund in the battle for the Champions League places last season, was limited to a relegation candidate to a follow-up game with Borussia.
It quickly became apparent that this couldn't go well for long. Because the team from Frankfurt sabotaged their tactical behavior in the early stages through hair-raising individual mistakes themselves. Up to the 23rd minute it was somehow going well, then Haaland gave his captain Reus the 1-0, his 100th Bundesliga club for Dortmund. The extremely happy equalization four minutes later through Passlack's own goal gave Eintracht no support. Until the break it was 1: 3 and it would have been 1: 4 if the ball had not just flown over the goal line before Reus' second goal, as the video assistant demonstrated. Trapp had put the ball in front of the feet of Dortmund in an effort to avoid a corner.