Bundesliga match Stuttgart vs Frankfurt: Finding out why

Stuttgart bald | Sebastian Hoeneß had pulled his baseball cap even lower over his face than usual – not unusual when you’re suddenly thrust into the scene after brief parties but intense The VfB coach said he was also “celebrating emotionally after the third goal. ” At least the few seconds in which there was something to celebrate on that memorable autumn evening in Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt.

On which his team turned a 3-0 deficit against Eintracht Frankfurt into a 3-3 draw at the last second and turned the stadium into one cheering and screaming mass. Except that shooter Chris Führich was a few centimeters offside. So: review and cancellation by the VAR. Justice, say his supporters. What his opponents said on Sunday cannot be called.

After the initial anger, there was a lot of pity and sympathy for the Stuttgart team. After all, they were dominant in the first half, but missed chance after chance, including penalties. And so they were already behind after 45 minutes: After a corner from Omar Marmoush, Hugo Ekitiké put the ball into the net to give Frankfurt the lead at the break, a perfect co-production by the successful Frankfurt duo, who together has already scored. 16 goals this season.

After the restart, Nathaniel Brown made it 2-0 before Marmoush made it 0-3 with a fine free kick from 20 metres. It was the exact double of his Europa League winning goal against Slavia Prague on Thursday, which surprised even his coach Dino Toppmöller. “To be honest, I thought it was a bit too far and the keeper was too good. The bullet was still unstable.

Catching up in the last minutes

Now a 3-0 deficit elsewhere means the home team is up. It was different for VfB, who fired at the crossbar, the goalkeeper and the Frankfurt defender before finding the lock and the main principle. Joshua Vagnoman and Nick Woltemade reduced the score to 2:3 shortly before the final whistle. And when the 3:3 actually fell in stoppage time, all the dams finally broke. The rest was VAR. And the ceremony to find “why”, which was not easy that night.

What did you want to accuse VfB of other than the self-accusation heard often on Sunday that they handled their own chances too lazily? It was true when Ermedin Demirovic wryly said “if things went well, he would have scored a hat-trick”. But it didn’t go well. Although: Even his missed penalty, which was not entirely inappropriate for the continuation of the game, was better saved than an undeniably bad shot – the fact that Demirovic said that is just to his credit .

Overall, Frankfurt goalkeeper Kevin Trapp was in good spirits that evening and, like his entire team, showed a level of intelligence and efficiency that made third place in the table look out of place. looks like a “small picture” (sports director Markus Krösche) . Hoeneß then did not have to say that “they did not show the efficiency necessary for such a good game”.

“But I saw a team that fought endlessly and created chance after chance. The latter also concerned the opposition Frankfurt.

Points are missing in the league

But they have a problem in Stuttgart. Not in the DFB Cup, not in the Champions League, where things are going well. But the central crisis in results in the league can no longer be explained. As is known, we were in the second last season, but – the curse of a good deed – the eleventh place is a negative this year. On the inside, looking at the table might hurt anyway. After all, after last season, surprisingly, VfB became the top team again in terms of self-awareness.

There is no need for external pressure at the moment in Stuttgart. Hoeneß is already doing it: “We don’t have enough points. It is also very clear that we have an obligation against Bochum.