The encourager is mile world champion.
Rafael Borré flies thousands of kilometers to be on the ball everywhere.
With the Colombian national team - and with the club that is number one in its group in the Europa League but has not yet lived up to expectations in the core Bundesliga business.
Borré is someone who is good for harmony.
The striker belongs to the species of football professionals who are always pushing their limits and fighting with enthusiasm.
The reward for this has not yet materialized.
A goal only in the league.
Ralf Weitbrecht
Sports editor.
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In addition, the team of coach Oliver Glasner is fifteen deep down in the last third of the table.
"Of course you ask yourself how it can be that you are doing so well in the Europa League and not in the Bundesliga," said Borré a few days before the groundbreaking home game this Saturday against RB Leipzig (6.30pm in the FAZ live ticker to the Bundesliga and Sky).
The 26-year-old Colombian is optimistic: “We are definitely able to free ourselves from it.” Borré is certain: “We have all the necessary qualities and prerequisites.
I think that we can also meet our requirements in tabular form if we call up everything. "
That's the problem.
So far, Eintracht has missed time and again to tap its supposed potential steadily and reliably.
“The fact that we show such different faces simply cannot and must not be,” criticized Borré.
He encouraged himself and his fellow Frankfurt teammates: “At the weekend we can prove that we can do it against a strong opponent.
If we can do that, we will be back on the right track. "
"I don't look at the table"
The prerequisites for actually annoying the Champions League club RB Leipzig would not be so bad - if a look at the statistics were decisive. The Saxons have played six games so far under Bundesliga conditions in Frankfurt, none of which have been won. Three draws and three losses. In other words: Eintracht has won against Leipzig three times in front of their own audience. Coach Glasner is not a fan of statistics, and the Austrian football teacher is also not someone who constantly looks at the table.
Before the duel with the table sixth, Glasner assured: “I don't look at the table. I don't know what the players are doing. I prefer to concentrate on our task. ”That is: don't lose. Glasner has sworn his team in intensive talks to create the turnaround against RB. A complete sense of achievement, rewarded with three points, would be something very special and unique at the same time: Eintracht has not won a single Bundesliga game at home this season. The only victory so far this season was achieved by the record champions in Munich, who recently experienced their Waterloo at the 0: 5 in the DFB Cup in Mönchengladbach.
The home strength used to be the big plus of Eintracht. This season, ties were the greatest of emotions - against teams like Cologne, Stuttgart and Augsburg, which don't exactly have a reputation for spreading fear and horror. The really good ones in the league are yet to come, like Leipzig now. RB is in good shape. Three of the last four Bundesliga games have been won, the other ended in a draw. This is the best result in this period in the league. Glasner wants to stop the Leipzig run. There are many players from his large squad available to him in terms of personnel.
For the defense, for example, the robust Stefan Ilsanker can be used again.
In the two defeats against Hertha and in Bochum, the 32-year-old Austrian did not make it into the matchday squad.
The last time his expertise was in demand was the 2-1 win at Bayern.
In Munich the clearer showed a good performance.
His participation could be asked again on Saturday.
Ilsanker knows RB only too well: for five years, from 2015 to 2020, he was on the ball for the Saxons.
A game against Leipzig is something new for Borré.
The Colombian has not yet had any experience with RB, but he already knows the capers that Eintracht has struck so far.
The Colombian believes in the turning point.
The prerequisite for this: "When we call everything up."