OOn the day before the game, liver Glasner left it open how he would react to the unfortunate injury and how he would like to organize Frankfurt Eintracht in the Europa League this Thursday. Evan Ndicka (ligament strain in the knee) and Erik Durm (concussion) are also missing for the game at FC Royal Antwerp.
The team arrived in Belgium early on Wednesday evening with two charter planes that had started at Egelsbach airfield. At lunchtime, Glasner had previously scheduled a training session at the World Cup arena in the city forest at 1.30 p.m.
The trip to Flanders was not made by the still troubled captain Sebastian Rode, who meanwhile announced his comeback for the time after the upcoming international break, as well as Christopher Lenz (torn hamstring).
For the first time in weeks, however, Tuta was back on the squad. The Brazilian had recently fallen behind after his poor performance at the cup in Mannheim in August (0: 2).
This time Glasner was able to nominate 20 men for the international assignment. The coach let it be known that Ndicka and Durm will not be available this Sunday (5.30 p.m.) in the Bundesliga when it comes to Bayern Munich away from home.
“Make changes”
He spoke of a personnel situation that had “worsened”: “It is clear that we have to make changes defensively,” said Glasner, “but we have players who have been waiting for their missions and are ready. Everyone who is here has my full confidence. “
He announced that this Thursday in Antwerp (6.45pm, live on TV Now) “players will appear” who were last left out; this can be interpreted as an indication that he will either field Makoto Hasebe as libero or Almamy Touré as right-back – or both.
The Japanese could be a starting candidate as a guardian between the central defenders thanks to his overview and ball security, while it was a substitute for the French, who had recovered from a tendon injury, in May at the end of the previous round (3-1 against Freiburg) for six minutes , would mark his debut under Glasner.
In order to be able to rehearse the standard situation without a possible Antwerp observer, the 47-year-old coach decided to do another training session at home and then to get on the plane immediately afterwards.
“Not easy to win against us”
Glasner said that he was aware that Eintracht under his direction has not yet been able to meet some expectations and that some outsiders see it as “very, very negative”. In order to counter the criticism, he referred in the same breath to the fact that his team had emerged unbeaten in the past six games, so it “is not so easy to win against us”.
In order to succeed in Anderlecht, he said, it is important to “minimize mistakes, because it takes a lot of energy to make them up every time”. Timothy Chandler, who sustained a large laceration on his head in a collision against 1. FC Köln, which was sewn with numerous stitches at halftime, said he felt “no discomfort”.
He jokingly added that he had already been able to put his little daughter to bed when he came home on Saturday evening, and since he succeeded in doing this without complications, it quickly became clear to him that the initially heavily bleeding lesion would not have any negative consequences for him. He was “in top shape”, said the Glasner sitting next to him about the German-American.
In the first eight games of this season, Frankfurt have not yet won a game. At the start of the Europa League they scored 1-1 against Fenerbahce Istanbul.
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