Official Eintracht Frankfurt thread [R]

Frankfurt falls to Leverkusen 4-1

I am happy about this result should give the team confidence heading into next week's game against Bayern btw to anyone who saw the game heres a couple of questions for ya:

1. How did Athirson play?

2.Whos this Vasoski guy that scored the goal, ive never heard of him before is he a new signing?

 

yes, he`s new. he played in skopje (macedonia) before and was signed for small money. 200000 euro, as far as i remember.

 

I can't tell you how Athirson's defending was, as I wasn't paying him particular attention, but he was VERY dangerous coming forward, and had quite a bit of opportunity to do so. His pass hit the crossbar and was headed in for the 3-1, and he had a couple of other good offensive moments.

 

Hmm...Athirson..I wonder if he's in the Brazil shortlist. If he is, probably not good news for my man Gilberto.

 

Got my tickets in the mail today for Eintracht - Nürnberg. I wouldn't normally go out of my way to see either of these clubs, but I have a friend flying in from the US on Friday, and I figured this would be a good game for him to see his first professional soccer game for several reasons.

- two storied clubs (Traditionsvereine)
- World Cup stadium with I am sure a good atmosphere.
- he is flying into Frankfurt and I have friends in Frankfurt.

On Monday night we will see Fürth - 1860. It will be a bit of step down but cool nonetheless.

 

Fuerth v. 1860 might be the better match.......

 

I'm really looking forward to Saturday.

I didn't expect to get anything from the Leverkusen game, though the goals we conceded were comical. I didn't expect anything from Berlin either. At least there we were unlucky. Hertha's first was a complete fluke and Van Lent probably wanted to commit suicide ofter the OG.

Saturday is a key game for us. After a confidence-boosting cup win we should let loose on "Der Club" with both barrels. If we can't win this one, we are looking at a long and difficult season.

 

Yea I promised Cha Doo RI would score this week for Frankfurt and that they would win...I'm actually being nice to you ppl this week. Shocking isn't it.

I don't hate this club btw....Frankfurt is okay by me.

 

EINTRACHT SEARCHING FOR FIRST POINTS



Two defeats in two matches is already looking ominous for bottom club Eintracht Frankfurt, who will be looking to get off the mark against a Nurnberg side just a point better off.

Frankfurt have looked like a fish out of water since returning to the top flight and will be eager to get some points on the board as soon as possible.

Friedhelm Funkel admits he will be putting his friendship with Nurnberg counterpart Wolfgang Wolf to one side as he looks to get his promoted team's season going, albeit two weeks later than intended.

Funkel said: "We really want to win this game and I expect us to do so."

Wolf has five wins to Funkel's one in head-to-head meetings, a statistic that irks Funkel who said: "I will have to improve that record on Saturday."

Oka Nikolov will be in goal for Frankfurt in the absence of regular custodian Markus Proll and will be handed the task of trying to keep out Marek Mintal, who was top Bundesliga scorer last season and who scored his side's last-minute equaliser against Hannover last weekend.

Mintal, whose form has also given Slovakia a chance of qualifying for the World Cup next year, proved he has not lost his scoring touch with last week's strike and also a goal in the 4-0 DFB-Pokal win over Eschborn.

Now he will be looking to score for Nurnberg against a team they have not played against for six seasons.

Robert Vittek should start with Stefan Kiessling also available to Wolf should he decide on an attacking strategy against Frankfurt.

 

Nuernberg match

Any word on yesterday? I see it was a win but any first hand account would be great.

 

Re: Nuernberg match

I was there. Great goal by Jones, by the way. Nürnberg were atrocious. Frankfurt not bad, but should have scored a goal or two more. The stadium is fantastic, but I was expecting a little bit better atmosphere. Granted, I was up in the nose-bleed section and about as far away from the die-hards as I could be.
I went with an American friend who was seeing his first ever soccer game, and he was very impressed with everything, especially when "Eye of the Tiger" came on over the loud speakers.

 

It was an easy win for Frankfurt, despite the scoreline. Der Club have only one player, and if someone like Huggel puts him in his pocket for the afternoon then Nuernberg have no hope. A full report in English will be on http://www.fanabteilung.de later today.

 

I don't know exactly why, but even BS is almost more sympathic than you guys! At least they have class when they pick on us.

 

But just almost!

My hate-list:

1. BTSV
2. Cottbus
3. Frankfurt

 

In general I agree, but having thought about it... No Bs fan ever shot fireworx at me. can't say that about the Zwietracht Zankfurt game (yep, sat right in front of their section during the promotion battle). So in general I dislike BS more, but personally Frankfurt sucks and BS is quite ok ^^

 

Wasn't that in the 90s? And is that seriously a reason to shoot rockets at people in wheelchairs?

 

Nope
Off course those actions against you guy weren't nice, but as far as I can say it was done by a minority (you only need 3 guys to spray grafiti and a few ordner and policemen to not clean the wall)... while the majority didn't stop the shooting of the rockets.
And as far as I remember it was the grafitis in the 90s that started the whole thing, than there was some flag stealing in a game in frankfurt and than the next game (last 96 - FF in 2nd BL, so it must have been spring 02) there was that rocket shooting.

 

Not this again !!