Eintracht Frankfurt: Up to the last Minute

Is there what? Shortly before the end is not yet, what brings this season in the final accounts for the Concord and what did you expect after the summer vacation in sports.

Marc Heinrich

sports editor.

As in the past four years, previously, is on the end of the season straight-ensured voltage: in 2016, it went into the Relegation brought against Nuremberg in the Class whereabouts; 2017 and 2018 for the Frankfurter in each case one of the Highlight performances in the DFB Cup final in Berlin on the program; and in may 2019 after a persistent drop in performance jumped out at least qualifying for the Europa League. Also now the possibility that it is for the team of coach Adi Hütter with the move to the international business of the existence of something. Big you is not.

however, There is still a glimmer of hope, noted Adi Hütter rightly so. He wants to pack the mini a chance, "the collars", as formulated by the Austrians. Five points before the game at 1. FC Cologne on Saturday (15.30 clock in the F. A. Z.-Liveticker for the football Bundesliga and Sky) of the residue on rank seven, of the entitled to qualify for the second-most important club competition, the Uefa. "But we are depending on what the competition is doing."

The upswing with the last 13 points to seven matches after the Corona break came perhaps too late to succeed now in the competition with Wolfsburg, Hoffenheim and Freiburg. "Of course you can always say that we have dropped to many points. On the other hand, we have won against teams, as it was not to be expected,“ summed up Hütter prior to departure to the Rhineland.

So were cancelled in the first half of the season, among other things, previous wins against Leverkusen and the FC Bayern slip-up in Paderborn and Cologne. "The defeat in the first leg has hurt," said Hütter in the 2:4 from the 18. December had stirred up against the "Effzeh", as Martin Hinteregger and Gonçalo Paciência for a 2:0 lead, which was then nearly there with goals from Hector, Bornauw, Drexler, and Jacob still.