Oliver Glasner didn't want to sugarcoat anything.

"That's not such a pleasant statistic," said the Eintracht coach.

His Frankfurt football team has not won in the Bundesliga for eleven games across the season.

A series of horrors - but no reason for Glasner to get nervous.

Instead, there was much more reason for him to get upset again within a week about decisions by the video referees that were worth discussing and to speak of “irregular decisions”.

Ralph Weitbrecht

sports editor.

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In the 1-1 draw at Hertha BSC a week ago, it was striker Rafael Borré who was brought down from the penalty spot but didn't receive a penalty.

In the 1-1 draw against 1. FC Köln on Sunday, it was the equalizing goal eight minutes before the end of regulation time, which was awarded despite being offside and having a visual impairment.

"This is madness"

"I don't understand what they're doing there.

It was exactly the same last week," said Eintracht sports director Markus Krösche after the draw against the Rhinelanders.

"It's annoying when you have twice as crucial situations."

Goalkeeper Kevin Trapp, who had no chance to defend himself when Jan Uwe Thielmann equalized because Florian Dietz, who was offside, blocked his view, got really angry.

"We discuss these offside goals every week, it's crazy," said Trapp.

The Video Assistant Referee (VAR) has been around for five years, and the discussions about it have been going on for just as long.

For Sebastian Rode, the Eintracht captain, it was "the hope" that "there would be as few wrong decisions as possible with the VAR," he said on Sunday.

But the fact that things are going this way is “extremely unfortunate.

It is to be hoped that it will even out over the course of the season.”

After winning the first point in front of a home crowd this season, Glasner said: "It's not that easy in the Bundesliga.

It's the little things that are missing.” According to the Frankfurt football coach, his team took “the right step in the right direction” against 1. FC Köln.

Glasner "can live with this draw"

The decision to switch from a back three to a back four in defense was correct and important in view of the many tests in the upcoming hot autumn, which for the first time in the club's history will lure games in the Champions League.

This Thursday, the eyes of Frankfurt's players, coaches and officials will be on Istanbul, where the group stage matches will be drawn from 6 p.m. on the Bosporus.

In the core business of the Bundesliga, in which Eintracht has been waiting for a new sense of achievement since the 2-1 win against Bochum on March 13, Glasner was reasonably satisfied with the ostensibly disappointing 1-1 win against Cologne.

"I can live with this draw," said the 47-year-old coach.

When the draw became a reality, because referee Martin Petersen recognized the offside goal after a seven-minute wait, Rode was already on the bench.

There, the Eintracht captain experienced a rollercoaster of emotions, "because it's brutally difficult when you're sitting on the sidelines and have to wait what feels like ten minutes for a decision to be made.

From my point of view it's offside because Kevin doesn't know if the opponent is still going for the ball.

The overall situation is extremely unfortunate," said Rode.

For Trapp there was no question: "We were clearly the better team and have to win this game.

When it came to Cologne, I don't understand why the referee didn't blow the whistle.

If there is an opponent there, it is offside.

I don't even react because I can't see the ball."

Luca Pellegrini has seen the ball many times - and received it many times.

It's been a promising debut for the Italian, on loan from Juventus, for his new club.

At the end of an "intense" game, he said he was used to playing in a back four.

"Nevertheless, it's a different league, the style of play is much more physical." The 23-year-old Roman did not want to get involved in a detailed discussion about the VAR decision.

"The video evidence discussion is initially irrelevant to me," he said after the draw against 1. FC Köln.

His recommendation: “It is important to look at us.

The game is over, we lost two points.

But we will continue to work hard and then get the three points.”

The next opportunity to do so will be on Sunday (5.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and on DAZN) in a difficult away game against the self-confident and brilliantly started newcomer Bremen.

Werder are in great form and haven't lost a game yet.