The Eintracht professionals and their trainer Adi Hütter recently experienced wild days.
As the game plan wanted, the Austrian had to play for his upcoming club Borussia Gladbach after the official announcement of his change. Would the team be able to ignore the hustle and bustle and shake it off?
Rode and Trapp see no direct connection
“Of course we are disappointed because we all enjoyed working with him. But the day after that it was forgotten again,” said Kevin Trapp bravely after the 4-0 clap Sky-Microphone. (Service: Results and schedule of the Bundesliga)
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Sebastian Rode agreed with the goalkeeper and did not want to make any direct connection with the events of the past few days: “It would be too easy to attribute the defeat to the change of coach. We have to show in the upcoming games that it is not that.”
Overall, however, the appearance at Borussia was disappointing. Despite some top chances and two aluminum hits, the usual accuracy in the passing game, the speed in the actions and the galling in the duel were missing. (Service: table of the Bundesliga)
And Hütter? After Matthias Ginter’s early 0: 1, the coach first took a sip from the water bottle and talked to his co-coaches Christian Peintinger and Armin Reutershahn. Even after conceding the third goal, he cheered on his team and applauded successful actions: “Come on, men! Next!”
Memories of Kovac and Rose are awakened
Nevertheless, memories of earlier announcements of coach changes within a Bundesliga season are awakened. In April 2018, Niko Kovac officially announced his departure from Frankfurt to FC Bayern Munich. On the following match day, the team went down in a no-brainer with 1: 4 in Leverkusen, lost four of the last five games and slipped from the European places to eighth place. After all, the big triumph was achieved in the DFB Cup, but the Bundesliga ran out of juice.
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A few meters as the crow flies from Adi Hütter was Marco Rose, who announced his departure to Borussia Dortmund on February 17th. Gladbach then lost seven competitive games and was eliminated from the DFB Cup and Champions League. Does the unity that has been so stable up to now have a similar negative run?
Fluttering nerves at unity?
Hütter, who first clapped his current and then future professionals after the final whistle and then disappeared into the cabin with his head bowed, stopped when asked SPORT1 counter: “It was the fourth defeat this season. That can happen. If you can’t lose against Gladbach, then I don’t understand the world anymore.”
But when asked about the means by which a downward trend should be prevented, the 51-year-old evaded: “For us it means: clean your mouth and go on. We’re all very disappointed, of course. But we want to show a reaction against Augsburg . “
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Does the great nervous flutter on the Main begin in the final sprint? Of course, the performance was not to Hütter’s taste: “It annoys me because we didn’t show what we can.” After all, Eintracht continued to work even when the score was 0: 3 and could have scored a consolation goal. In addition, Gladbach is a strong opponent, it is not for nothing that the team qualified for the round of 16 in a hammer Champions League group with Real Madrid, Inter Milan and Schachtor Donezk.
Eintracht demanded against Augsburg on Tuesday
However, the past few days were undoubtedly turbulent, they did not leave the team and the entire environment without a trace. The fear of losing the historic chance and missing out on the premier league is great.
Finally, the competitors Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen can move closer and further increase the pressure before the duel against FC Augsburg on Tuesday.
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