Eintracht Frankfurt in the Hessenliga: Even Oliver Glasner looks over Alex Meier's shoulders
Created: 07/30/2022, 20:27
By: Johannes Goetze
Eintracht Frankfurt's head coach Oliver Glasner insisted on a visit to the Prischoß for the premiere of the U21s.
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The hype surrounding Eintracht Frankfurt arrived in the Hessen League before the Champions League: there were a whopping 1,500 spectators at the start of the U21s in Hessen's Beletage.
Even professional head coach Oliver Glasner watched how the U21s around the coaching team Kristjan Glibo and Eintracht soccer god Alex Meier messed up the start at Bayern Alzenau and lost 1:2 (0:1).
The fact that Eintracht Frankfurt is again providing a second team after years of abstinence caused a lot of discussion in the Hessian Football Association's association match committee a few months ago.
A majority of the clubs in the Hessenliga had decided against the club's inclusion in the Hessenliga - and yet only one member of the association's match committee voted against the inclusion.
Shortly afterwards, however, the SGE presented Alex Meier, the "football god" from its own ranks as assistant coach of the U21s, the professionals rocked Europe and the hype about the "Adler" reached unimagined heights.
Eintracht Frankfurt in the Hessenliga: close to the people
And since the start in Alzenau at the latest, many Hessen league teams should be looking forward to their home game.
Of course, the SGE will not always attract 1500 spectators - but certainly more than the usual average.
Concerns that the "amateurs" would attract fans who belong to the "stadium ban" category were unfounded, at least in the first game.
On the contrary: Numerous families watched the game in the most glorious sunshine and were delighted by the open-minded people of Frankfurt.
Patrick Ochs, sports director at Eintracht for the age groups U16 to U21 and after all 216 Bundesliga games under his belt, was ready for photos before the game.
And when Oliver Glasner took his seat in the grandstand, he had plenty of patience for short small talk, photos and autographs.
Eintracht Frankfurt in the Hessenliga: This is also an event.
Assistant coach Alex Meier (left) and head coach Kristjan Glibo from Eintracht Frankfurt U21 discuss what they can do better after the break.
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But: It's primarily about points - and, even if not clearly formulated, Frankfurt will not want to play in the Hessenliga for the next five years.
It became clear that there are many highly talented kickers in the Glibo team.
But it is also clear: the team still has to step up its game in terms of cleverness, toughness and the quality of the finish.
The performance of the guests was particularly good in the second half, the game was clearly dominated.
Only: from all the dominance too few crystal-clear scoring chances were created.
It was fitting that only one of them found their goal in the goal.
The fact that the interim compensation came from the most beautiful move of the day, too.
Divaio Bobson went for a solo, intelligently took Mehdi Loune with him, who only had to cross for Nacho (56').
Barletta's plan works
The Eagles only played in one direction after the break, but the winning goal fell in the other: left-back Saher Bhatti intervened and failed himself, but then kept his cool and used center-forward Lukas Fecher ideally in the second attempt.
Alzenau was brutally efficient after the break, because there weren't many relief attacks, let alone dangerous ones.
But the Lower Franconia fought until they dropped, swapped five times and thus defended their lucky lead over time.
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The 1-0 at the break, on the other hand, wasn't quite as happy: Alzenau was dangerous from set pieces, and when it went quickly through the middle - the gaps at Eintracht didn't fit at all.
The goal fell accordingly: Heinz pass, Solo Seikel, foul Bignetti, penalty.
Ihab Darwiche turned him cold as ice.
FCB coach Angelo Barletta's plan was good – and it worked.
A day of celebration for Bayern, a good day for the Hessenliga.
The stats:
FC Bayern Alzenau:
Endres;
Bhatti (88 Heptazeler), Milosevic, Topic, Pancar – Wilke – Darwiche (86 Collins), Makey (61 Cetin), Seikel (54 Alexander), Heinz (73 Alessandro) – Fecher.
Eintracht Frankfurt U21:
Bignetti;
Alikhil (72nd Schäfer), Otto, Wachs, Maurer (46th Cassaniti) – Sejdovic, Little, Brauburger – Bobson, Loune, Amiri (46th Nacho).
Referee:
Frederik Angermaier (SV Oberselters).
Spectators:
1500.
Goals:
1-0 Ihab Darwiche (25', penalty kick), 1-1 Nacho (56'), 2-1 Lukas Fecher (72').
