Pressing, Rabona, away win – Bielefeld coup in Frankfurt

Stand: 21.01.2022 | Reading time: 4 minutes

Arminia Bielefeld has extended his streak and is now unbeaten in five games. The East Westphalians celebrated a 2-0 (2-0) victory in Frankfurt and left the relegation zone with their first win at Eintracht in a decade and a half.

Patrick Wimmer gave the visitors the lead in the fifth minute with the fastest Arminia goal since returning to the top flight, before he played a spectacular set-up to set up Alessandro Schöpf’s goal 22 minutes later.

In the table, Bielefeld, unbeaten in five games, climbed to 14th place with 21 points. The Frankfurter (28) missed the jump to the international ranks, they stay eighth at least for another night. “We didn’t defend that consistently, they had a lot of second balls. Today the game luck was clearly with Bielefeld. The presence in front of goal wasn’t good, although we threw in a lot of good balls. We have to be much more consistent in front of goal,” Eintracht’s Djibril Sow knew.

Wimmers Rabona follows silent criticism

It was not just the start of the game that the Hessians had not imagined. Again they conceded an early goal. The sixth this season in the first quarter of an hour. Coach Oliver Glasner’s look at a tablet didn’t help either: there was nothing to object to Wimmer’s goal. Except that the people of Frankfurt had favored it themselves.

On the left side of defense, they let the Bielefeld grant. When the ball landed at Wimmer after an ineffective attempt to clear it, the Austrian pulled away for his third goal of the season. Kevin Trapp, who like Filip Kostic had returned to the starting XI after surviving a corona infection, had no chance.

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The fact that Eintracht had significantly more play and ball possession played no role against very eager and combative Bielefeld. Except for a long-range shot by Daichi Kamada (12th) and a huge chance by Jesper Lindström (16th), not much jumped out for Frankfurt. Instead, coach Frank Kramer’s Bielefeld team proved to be efficiency experts after scoring the fastest goal since promotion and scored the second goal.

Again, Arminia came from the right attacking side, only this time Wimmer did the preparatory work for an Austrian production. And how! Behind the standing leg, he pointed the ball in front of the Trapp goal: a scorer point per Rabona. “During training, you tend to try it for fun. In the situation, I didn’t have confidence in my left foot. So I thought to myself that I’d do it like this or take the outside step,” Wimmer explained the action.

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His goalkeeper was relatively unimpressed and, with all due respect, recalled the deficits of the young Austrian: “Sometimes he inspires you, sometimes he drives you mad. There’s something crazy about him, something carefree, which is incredibly good for us. If he stays with himself and works on a few basics that are important for the team, then he can become even more valuable than he already is.”

In any case, Schöpf politely thanked the assist provider and pushed him over the line into the short corner with his chest. According to the Bundesliga, the 27-year-old was the most unsuccessful shooter in the upper house with 25 failed attempts. The fact that the Kramer team was able to go into the break with a two-goal lead was also thanks to keeper Stefan Ortega, who parried with a class reflex against Rafael Borré (35′).

Even after the break, the Frankfurters could not buy anything from statistical advantages in the duel of the teams with the strongest runs in the league. Significantly better pass rate – but still no goal. Again Lindström missed a very good opportunity (56′), returning Kostic then only hit the side netting. Ultimately, Bielefeld defended their lead until the final whistle and even had the chance to score the third goal through Florian Krüger (67th) and again Wimmer (72nd).

If Wimmer has his way, the series of successes is far from over. He knows the recipe: “Stand compact, and make the stalls in front, then hopefully it will continue like this.”