The praise was nothing short of effusive.
"Martin trained very well," said Eintracht coach Oliver Glasner about the impressions of his compatriot Hinteregger over the past few sunny days.
"That was his best week of training since I've been a trainer here in Frankfurt." This has been Glasner for nine months.
And if his impressions are correct, that can only be good for the team.
She needs a Martin Hinteregger in top form - also and especially in these tense days and weeks, when Eintracht, which has strayed from course, is looking for support and contour.
Ralph Weitbrecht
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The point game test this Saturday
at half past three in the afternoon at Hertha BSC may come at the right time.
Eintracht, who were beaten three times in a row in the Bundesliga, have the chance to turn the tide that Glasner was hoping for.
The conditions for this seem favourable.
The Berliners are currently the worst team in the league.
Since the start of the second half of the season, coach Tayfun Korkut's team has been able to prove itself seven times.
Not once was there a win.
Eintracht's record is only marginally better.
The 3:2 in Stuttgart was the only real sense of achievement for Glasner and his players.
Two days before kick-off in Berlin's Olympic Stadium, the Frankfurt soccer coach repeated his well-known route: "We also want to win at Hertha." With a revived Hinteregger in the central position in the three-man defense.
And also with Makoto Hasebe, with the professional who interprets the role of the libero excellently like no other?
Glasner kept a low profile.
The coach did not even rule out "that we will now play three times in a row with the same team".
Three games in just over a week: this is the program that Frankfurt is particularly looking forward to.
Next Wednesday is the round of 16 first leg in the Europa League at Betis Sevilla.
Between 3000 and 4000 Eintracht fans will be there live in Andalusia.
"I'm really happy about that," said Glasner on Thursday in the catacombs of the Frankfurt Arena.
"We have been warned"
Hertha, Betis, Bochum: "These are tough days that await us," said Glasner.
Days when it counts again and Eintracht makes another attempt to finally score a goal again.
"The knot can be loosened with big chances," hopes the coach.
However, this presupposes that his team really gets into a good final position more often than usual.
And then?
Then it counts.
Then Rafael Borré, Jesper Lindstrom, Filip Kostic and yes, Daichi Kamada too will have to show that they "know where the goal is".
A skill that Glasner awarded to Hertha attackers Stevan Jovetic, Ishak Belfodil and Marco Richter.
In general: "Hertha has a lot of quality in their ranks," said the Frankfurt coach, who had noticed in the preparation for the away game in the capital: "In the last tight games, it was always their turn.
We have been warned.”
The past Bundesliga games didn't go according to plan at all for Eintracht.
Thanks to the point cushion that the team secured in the final sprint of the first half of the season, the Glasner team is in no man's land in the league.
But she wants more.
Hasebe had already said in the middle of the week that it pushes him further up.
Glasner agrees.
Also that there is a certain pressure on his team, as the Japanese admitted.
"If Makoto says we're under pressure, then that's true." Which is also true: Captain Sebastian Rode will not be available for Eintracht at Hertha.
Whether winger Danny da Costa will be fit in time and make the trip to Berlin will only be decided this Friday.
"Danny recently had problems with his pubic bone," said Glasner.
Kristijan Jakic recently had problems with his brisk game.
In the away defeat in Cologne, he received a yellow card for the fifth time and was suspended against Bayern.
Now the combative sweeper is ready for action again and one of the options that Glasner has in the personnel puzzle.
As usual, the Austrian football coach wants to proceed calmly and prudently.
His assessment of the general sporting situation: "We won't let ourselves go crazy."