What is going on with Frankfurt Eintracht?

The question is easily answered: The players are unsettled.

So much so that they make so many wrong decisions under pressure that the tender little plants of the genre game structure, game structure, game culture are ripped out of the ground before the first leaf can green, let alone fruit.

1. FC Köln could not do much more this Saturday than put pressure on the Frankfurt opponents, it was enough to defeat Eintracht, because Modeste accidentally dropped the ball at his feet after a pressing hit and he kept his nerves in front of Trapp .

The Frankfurters took care of the rest themselves.

The team wants, that's obvious, maybe they want too much.

Kristijan Jakic is a prototype for the problem.

The Croatian works successfully as an aggressive ball conqueror, but he lacks calm and overview to become constructive.

He seems to see the playing field more as a battlefield and is obviously contagious to most of his teammates, who act hectically, overzealously and in many scenes simply inappropriately with the ball.

Only Hasebe provides support and calm

And when Makoto Hasebe isn't on the pitch, there's no one to give the overexcited pros a bit of support and calm.

This is especially true for the two young defenders in the back three.

Ndicka and Tuta look much more confident with the old Japanese as the middle man in the back three than with Martin Hinteregger, although the Austrian showed a satisfactory performance against Cologne.

The Eintracht malaise is exacerbated by the form crisis of the creative forces Kostic and Kamada.

The situation is reminiscent of the preliminary round, when Eintracht played 1-1 between Bielefeld and Cologne four times and in possession of the ball also gave themselves unrestrainedly to the system of trial and error.

The difference: Back then, the need for the game was understandable - new coach, new game philosophy, the team had to find each other.

In addition, coach Glasner remained calm because he could trust the healing power of time.

After the 23rd matchday, the Austrian looks attacked, annoyed and disappointed.

How he crushed Kamada in Cologne on the pitch for his mistake before the 0: 1 is human, but not sovereign.

In the preliminary round, everything turned for the better because Glasner brought Hasebe into play and the many last-minute goals gave the players self-confidence the breeding ground that allowed the delicate plants of the game structure, game structure and game culture to grow.

Eintracht can hope for that again.

But she can't count on that.

Especially not that a victory over Bayern next Saturday will calm things down.