The waiting at Eintracht Frankfurt continues.

The great patience will probably last well into the new year.

Only at the beginning of the second half of the Bundesliga season in January, coach Oliver Glasner said after the happy 2-1 win in Fürth, Eintracht would most likely make significant progress in terms of play.

Then the Frankfurters, including the preparation, would have had “a couple of weeks” “in which we could train together” during the winter break.

I expect from us, and especially from myself, that we will then take clearly recognizable steps forward, ”said Glasner on Sunday.

Jörg Daniels

Editor in the sports department

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The too often stagnant Eintracht game has not yet gotten any momentum, which was also shown by the weak performance for long stretches of the severely weakened bottom of the table, which the Frankfurters with their much better chances were still unable to dominate. There are “very, very small steps that we can only take. Of course we want to be better in many areas, but this is currently not possible because of the tight schedule, ”said Glasner.

After the two-week international break, eight games in the Bundesliga and the Europa League are on the Frankfurt program within four weeks.

And in the next fourteen days, Eintracht hardly had time to practice automatisms in training, because they assigned 14 professionals to their respective national teams.

“Now we only have seven players in training again.

We fight our way through the whole season, ”said the coach.

Glasner criticizes some professionals

Glasner, who feels like being on the hamster wheel in view of the intense game activity, claims time for himself and his team as chief strategist. Time that Austrians don't actually have. Because in the Bundesliga, the Hessians are fourth in the table, only three points ahead of the relegation rank 16. If Rafael Borré had not scored Eintracht with his goal in the 94th minute in Fürth to the much-acclaimed victory, it would only be one point. Either way: As a successful European Cup participant, the Hessians lag far behind in the core business of the Bundesliga. There are voices who claim that the team should grow together faster. However, too many players stagnate in their development or, on balance, have even become underperforming.

The Frenchman Almamy Touré, who came on in the 46th minute, was replaced by Glasner in Fürth for Timothy Chandler shortly before the end of the game. “I expect Almamy to be a bit more defensive than he has shown here.” After Touré, the Fürth team always got through too easily, the coach criticized his winger. Djibril Sow, Jesper Lindström and Erik Durm were also unable to prevail in the duel with the relegation candidate number one for their claims. Only goalkeeper Kevin Trapp, who prevented Cedric Itten from 1: 1 with a splendid reaction in the 87th minute, is stable in the high performance.

After the dramatic game finish, in which Itten initially managed to make it 1-1 in the 92nd minute, Trapp left the pitch with tears in his eyes. Borré's winning goal had the national goalkeeper emotionally charged. “We get the neck blow to make it 1: 1 in the 92nd minute. And I claim that 99 out of 100 teams will not recover from it, "said Glasner," We have shown mentality again. That is only possible if everyone is involved with heart and mind. "

“It was awesome for the emotions. That's why we're just happy ”- that's what Chandler said after Borré's lucky punch of unity. Captain Sebastian Rode spoke of a "roller coaster ride of emotions in the very hectic final phase". Proving comeback qualities is currently the Frankfurt specialty. Jens Petter Hauge's goals to make it 2-1 at Olympiacos and Tuta to make it 1-1 against Leipzig were both lost in stoppage time. Eintracht makes it very exciting at the moment. However, the last minute hits were "not a conscious means," said Glasner. But they would show “that the team is one hundred percent intact. That we never give up and always believe in ourselves, even if everything doesn't go perfectly ”.

Substitute Rode, who scored the groundbreaking 1-0 after 75 minutes, sees Eintracht as a critical spirit that has some catching up to do.

“We have to improve in the game with the ball, create more chances to score, get more into the crucial areas so that our strikers can get more shots.

You work a lot, but you rarely get into the crucial areas, ”said the leading player.

The Hessians can do better on Sunday in a week at the third SC Freiburg.

"I hope that the victories against Fürth and Piraeus have given us a lot of strength and self-confidence and that we play a lot better against Freiburg." Rode cannot go fast enough on the way to more playful class and stability.