Saturday should be the day of surprises.

Will Eintracht turn the trend around?

And will the club manage to get the arena full against RB Leipzig?

The game against the Saxons, which takes place under floodlights, is the first in more than a year and a half in which all 51,500 available places are again approved by the health department.

Full house against RB on Saturday (6.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and on Sky)?

The answer to this question is at least as exciting as the state of harmony, which recently had to admit defeat 0: 2 in the core business of the Bundesliga in the fighting promoted Bochum.

Ralf Weitbrecht

Sports editor.

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The weak performance deep in the west caused a lot of discussion in the ranks of the team. Eintracht coach Oliver Glasner took a lot of time after returning to Frankfurt to “research the causes”, as he said on Thursday. “It was a painful defeat that we worked through analytically.” When asked about specific solutions, Glasner stayed under cover, as expected. “The content stays with us,” replied the Austrian football teacher. Glasner wants action to speak. "It is crucial to implement things on the pitch."

Hardly anything went according to plan in Bochum, everything should be different and better against Leipzig.

"The boys sometimes want too much," said Glasner as an excuse for weak games such as against Hertha and VfL Bochum.

“We are all surprised by the enormous fluctuations in performance.

My players really give everything in every game, ”said Glasner.

It is understandable that the Eintracht coach protects his professionals.

However: not everyone in their squad has really given everything in Bochum recently.

"Talked to older players"

A negative example may be defender Almamy Touré, who, in the style of a jogging recreational runner, but not in the manner of an uncompromising defensive player, did not know how to stop the early striker Danny Blum. Blum, once in the service of Eintracht himself, hardly knew what was happening to him. Without resistance, he appeared in front of Kevin Trapp and tunneled him with his right, his weak foot, with which Blum never knew what to do with anything decisive in his professional career.

Glasner doesn't want to drive himself crazy over the recent setbacks. "I've spoken to older players who have been with us for a while," he said. "You told me: coach, it was exactly like that two years ago." Good games in the Europa League were followed by terrible appearances in everyday life in the league. "Apparently the current situation is not that new," Glasner encouraged himself before the game against Leipzig.

New game New luck. "RB claims to always play the Champions League," said Glasner, revealing no secret. It is also understandable that the Eintracht team he instructed wants to “deliver a hot fight” to Leipzig. The Glasner-Elf has a lot to do well and better. Sebastian Rode will not be able to help her in the endeavor to trip the favorite. The captain, who was recently deployed for a longer time, sometimes for a shorter period of time, after his injury break, will pause as part of the so-called stress control.

Against Olympiacos, the opponent in the Europa League next Thursday, fighter Rode should be back.

The return of Kristijan Jakic, who was replaced injured in Bochum, is already expected against RB.

Unlike striker Gonzalo Paciencia, who is still suffering from the consequences of his thigh injury and is out.

Others have to judge it against Leipzig.

Glasner is certain: "We are in good spirits."