EINTRACHT FRANKFURT – LIPSIA | Saturday 6.30pm
Eintracht Frankfurt aficionados had to wait until the fourth league day to finally raise their hands to the sky and celebrate the first three points of the season. The Adler’s first win came last weekend, at the end of a nail-biting game at the home of newly promoted Werder Bremen.
The Weserstadion crowd was certainly not bored as they witnessed a match with a total of seven goals – it ended 3-4 – full of thrills and spills. Eintracht coach Oliver Glasner must have been satisfied: so far, his men had never managed to score more than one goal per game, with the exception of the first round of the German Cup against a lower-ranked side like Magdeburg. Mario Gotze was also on the scorers’ sheet in the Bremen match: for the 2014 world champion, it was his first goal since returning to Germany after his time in the Netherlands at Psv Eindhoven. If it is true that on the one hand the attack has woken up, the rearguard continues to give no guarantees: Frankfurt are already in double figures in terms of goals conceded (11) and since the Bundesliga began the goal has never been inviolate.
Domenico Tedesco’s Leipzig are also in the standings on five points alongside Eintracht and Werder. The Roten Bullen, too, got off to a slow start and their first success, like their next opponents, was only recorded in the last round by beating Wolfsburg 2-0 thanks to a brace from a wild Nkunku. Pure oxygen for the coach of Calabrian origin and his men. In the first three days they had only scraped together two draws against Stuttgart and Cologne and suffered a defeat against Union Berlin. This week, however, it was a goleada in the first round of the German Cup: 8-0 against the unfortunate Teutonia, complete with a hat-trick from the prodigal son Timo Werner, back from Chelsea.
Timo Werner
The Prediction
Two potential top-ranked teams that have needed a few games to get going. On the last day they achieved their first success, but there is still something to sort out behind them. That is why in the exciting challenge at Deutsche Bank Park both should score on at least one occasion. Leipzig will probably be able to take away a positive result from the away match in Frankfurt.
Eintracht Frankfurt-Leipzig matchday squad
- EINTRACHT FRANKFURT (4-2-3-1): Trapp; Jakic, Tuta, Ndicka, Pellegrini; Rode, Sow; Lindstrom, Götze, Kamada; Kolo Muani.
- LIPSIA (3-4-1-2): Gulacsi; Simakan, Orban, Gvardiol; Henrichs, Laimer, Kampl, Raum; Olmo; Nkunku, Werner.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-2
