The Berlin coach Pal Dardai nodded vigorously.

And his grin grew by the second.

The 45-year-old soccer teacher was having a great time listening to his Frankfurt colleague Oliver Glasner on the podium in the press conference room of the World Cup arena.

He was in the significantly worse position last Saturday: Because Glasner had to explain the bad 1: 2 home defeat against Hertha - it was the first Eintracht defeat at home in this Bundesliga season.

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And the 47-year-old Austrian, who is a level-headed person, talked himself into a rage for his circumstances.

“It doesn't give a shit what system we play in if we don't do our jobs.

It doesn't give a shit whether we play with three, four, five, six sixes, one or two strikers.

If we don't have staggering, if the sixes play with five ball contacts, then you lose the ball. Period.

Then the system doesn't give a shit, really doesn't give a shit. "

The implementation is "often the problem and not the system," emphasized Glasner with pithy words.

His colleague Dardai did not make fun of the Eintracht coach, on the contrary: The Hungarian gave Glasner completely right.

Under the motto: We coaches can analyze and practice as we want, if the players don't follow suit, we have a problem.

Frustrated Glasner

Glasner has a big problem.

Under his guidance, the Frankfurters do not get where they are when they are supposed to actively shape the game, as the second defeat of the season against a defensively well-organized and robust opponent relentlessly demonstrated.

The trainer is becoming more and more aware of the stubborn development backlog.

Whatever he does, the bottom line is that it has too little effect.

Which in turn explains his emotionality, which he has not yet shown in this form.

When asked how he intends to cope with the problems now, Glasner replied: “Maybe I'll take one behind the bandage today.

Then I might get a solution. ”That was pure sarcasm and does not fit with the previous behavior of the trainer, who likes to look at things very objectively.

Glasner was not looking for excuses. He does not want to “avoid the bush. We didn't get it to the square. I have to be very honest about that, ”he said, taking the right mindset when working through the game. “I'm very critical of us.” The coach believes he can count on the support of his players, describing them as “very self-critical boys”. Goalkeeper Trapp emphasized that Hertha did not win the game, but that Frankfurt lost it. “We did a lot wrong with lots of bad passes and lots of inaccuracies. Every second ball was with the opponent, ”he criticized.

The Berliners used the high level of Frankfurt inadequacies to two goals by Marco Richter (7th minute) and the substitute Jurgen Ekkelenkamp (63rd). Trapp prevented a higher deficit until half-time. The people in front of them often played the ball back and forth in their own half of the game without any ideas. Hardly any player took responsibility. That was all the more surprising, since the Eintracht professionals could have performed with great self-confidence after the 2-1 surprise victory in Munich.

The hoped-for upswing from Eintracht's point of view turned into a blow that shook Frankfurt to the core, for whom only Gonçalo Paciência could convert a penalty to the final score in the 78th minute.

Despite the unsatisfactory performance, Glasner only corrected his personnel selection after 45 minutes: Almamy Touré and Daichi Kamada replaced Timothy Chandler and Jesper Lindström.

A lot of work for the trainer

In addition, the coach switched to back four.

“There was too little of everything - including me.

Maybe I could have intervened earlier, ”said Glasner.

Especially in the first half he saw “nothing” of “what we set out to do”.

It just didn't get much better afterwards.

Eintracht lagged behind expectations.

“We put a little more pressure on in the second half, but too simple-minded from my point of view. We'll play out on Filip Kostic, he should cross, and then something will come about. That's just not enough, ”said Glasner. The Frankfurters fail to break out of their pattern. The shortcomings are often the same. "We find it difficult to create clear scoring chances." That is "the learning of this season" so far. “We just have to assert ourselves better, win one on one and play faster,” the coach demands. There is a lot of work ahead of him.

His supervisor, Sports Director Markus Krösche, spoke of "that we have points in all areas that we need to improve".

Because the solutions chosen by Glasner so far have not had enough success, he now has to find new ones.

"We will deal with the defeat objectively," he announced.

Shortly before that, the coach couldn't hide his turmoil.

“When I look at the statistics: Rafael Borré comes in in the 60th minute, came from South America yesterday at 7.30 p.m. - and is then the one who has the most shots on goal with us.

I can stop talking then. "