Eintracht Frankfurt Preview

Eintracht Frankfurt

Coach: Michael Skibbe

Long years Funkel coached Eintracht Frankfurt.
Now it is time for Michael Skibbe to take the control over.

From his outer appearance Skibbe looks very calm and objective. Sometimes he has been criticized to be too objective and calm, but if the team is willing to listen to him and take him serious Frankfurt may have some success.

Money spend for transfers: 1.250.000 €
Money earned from transfers: 0 €

Balance: -1.250.000 €

Atmosphere during training camp&test matches:

Three wins, two defeats.
Frankfurt started bad into test matches, but improved a lot lately. Especially the 2:0 win over Kaiserslautern showed that they have not any big problems.

Possible lineups & tactics:












Most likely:
1. 4-5-1 (4-2-3-1); LB,CB,CB,RB,DM,DM,ROM,LOM,OM,ST

Aim set by club:

Be close to top teams, same as for Hannover really. Looking to have a lucky and surprising good season as Hertha last season always, but they might be happy with a good midfield position!

Teamcheck:

Goalkeeper: 5/10

After buying Ralf Fährmann the problem in the goalkeeper position should be solved.
The new goalkeeper came, but the bad luck with injuries stayed.

Fährmann broke his hand so that either Pröll or Nikolov will play. Both getting their chances, because both never convince for a long time!

Defence: 5/10

Similar situation in defence. Maik Franz comes from Karlsuher SC and everyone saw how important he was for Karlsruhe when he was injured the second half of the season and his club got relegated.

Together with Franz Marco Russ will play, who shows his talent quite often but who has a high mistake rate. Aleksandar Vasaski will be fit soon, but he has still to show that he is good enough for Bundesliga. So if Franz oder Russ will be out, Frankfurt will lack quality on centre back position.

Right back Patrick Ochs is on good days over average, but he is too inconstant.
Same with Christoph Spycher.

But once again the line-up is only solid if these two play. If the backups have to play they have a huge quality loss!

Midfield: 6/10

Both Selim Teber and Schwegler - the new transfers in midfield - will improve the quality in here.

Together with Chris, Bajramovic (both long-term injured, but if they are fit vey good players)
and Caio, Meier and Köhler Frankfurt owns quite a solid midfield.

It is the strongest part of the team for sure, with some players owning big potential which was not shown last season though.

Striker: 6/10

Amanatidis injured and we could observe the same situation during last season. Without Amanatidis and Fenin being injured too, Frankfurt only had Liberopoulos as striker.

At least he scored a lot of important goals, but they lack some good back ups here.
Of course Ümit Korkmaz can play striker as well, but he is more the wing player. Possible that we could see single striker (either Amanatidis or Liberopoulos) and Fenin together with Korkmaz on the wings.

Still they lack alternatives in my opinion and Amanatidis is not in best mood after Spycher got the captain band.

Total: 5/10

My prognosis:

The quality in the team should be enough to stay in Bundesliga, but if they have bad luck with injuries they can easily face relegation fight.
Of course if we see everything going very good they can be close to the top 10 teams.