Chris was man of the match in Eintracht’s 3-1 win over Cottbus this afternoon.Eintracht owned the first half, due to their dominance in midfield. Most of this was due to the way Chris pushed forward and the fact that Ari Van Lent was winning most of the high balls. Van Lent got Frankfurt’s first, nodding in, unmarked, from a left wing cross.
Despite numerous chances we didn’t get a second until a period of sustained pressure, including two good chances for the marauding Chris, ended up with a loose ball in front of Van Lent. Ari has rediscovered his goal-poaching roots and is no longer missing chances like this. 2-0 Frankfurt at the interval and Cottbus looked dead and buried.
Cottbus, however, like to grind teams down. Our young braves were a bit panicky after the interval and really let their opponents into the game. We couldn’t put a pass together and Cottbus started creating chances. Eventually one of their players was brought down inside the box and they got a penalty. It was well saved by Oka Nikolov (standing in for the injured Marcus Pröll).
Oka had no chance with their goal, which came some minutes later. A perfect volley from 25m. It was very well taken. Strangely, it signalled the end for Cottbus. Cha, who had come on for the injured Reinhard, was finally getting to the pace of the game, and starting to cause problems down the right wing. Cottbus players who had been seeing a wagging finger for seventy minutes suddenly started seeing yellow cards and eventually red cards.
Two Cottbus players quickly saw red for bringing down Eintracht players. Then, with five minutes to go Kohler scored a cheeky goal to make the scoreline a representative 3-1.
We are now only 9 points off promotion. If we can hold that until after our trip to the Alps on Friday then all bets are off!
I was in Unterhaching for the appaling scenes on the field, and off it. Hopefully that was our nadir.We are five games unbeaten since then (not counting Schalke in the cup), let’s make it six!
Despite numerous chances we didn’t get a second until a period of sustained pressure, including two good chances for the marauding Chris, ended up with a loose ball in front of Van Lent. Ari has rediscovered his goal-poaching roots and is no longer missing chances like this. 2-0 Frankfurt at the interval and Cottbus looked dead and buried.
Cottbus, however, like to grind teams down. Our young braves were a bit panicky after the interval and really let their opponents into the game. We couldn’t put a pass together and Cottbus started creating chances. Eventually one of their players was brought down inside the box and they got a penalty. It was well saved by Oka Nikolov (standing in for the injured Marcus Pröll).
Oka had no chance with their goal, which came some minutes later. A perfect volley from 25m. It was very well taken. Strangely, it signalled the end for Cottbus. Cha, who had come on for the injured Reinhard, was finally getting to the pace of the game, and starting to cause problems down the right wing. Cottbus players who had been seeing a wagging finger for seventy minutes suddenly started seeing yellow cards and eventually red cards.
Two Cottbus players quickly saw red for bringing down Eintracht players. Then, with five minutes to go Kohler scored a cheeky goal to make the scoreline a representative 3-1.
We are now only 9 points off promotion. If we can hold that until after our trip to the Alps on Friday then all bets are off!
I was in Unterhaching for the appaling scenes on the field, and off it. Hopefully that was our nadir.We are five games unbeaten since then (not counting Schalke in the cup), let’s make it six!