Done: Bochum won their first game of the season. Four days before the Champions League game at Tottenham, a series of four games without defeat ended for the Hessians.
VfL Bochum has clinched its first win of the season in the Bundesliga at the ninth attempt.
On Saturday, the bottom of the table surprisingly won 3-0 (0-0) against the Eintracht Frankfurt team, who played one before the Champions League second leg at Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur on Wednesday (9 p.m. / DAZN). suffered a setback.
The end of the Frankfurt series of the last four competitive games without defeat after the goal by Philipp Hofmann (71st minute), the own goal by Evan Ndicka (87th) and the goal by Philipp Förster (90th + 4) is not good as an encouragement for that Premier class duel in London.
The Hessians came with great expectations, especially since 2014 world champion Mario Götze was back in the starting XI on Saturday after his ankle injury and the resulting break in the first leg against Tottenham (0-0). At best, they could even have made the jump to third place in the table. Nevertheless, in front of 24,850 spectators, Oliver Glasner made five changes to his team compared to the Champions League game, including the recently strong Makoto Hasebe who got a break and captain Sebastian Rode was only on the bench for an hour.
Letsch with four changes
VfL coach Thomas Letsch had also changed the Bochum team to four positions at his home premiere – and the coach returned from the three-man defense to the four-man defense after the 0:4 in Leipzig. Philipp Förster replaced VfL playmaker Kevin Stöger, who tested positive for the corona virus.
However, the qualities of a playmaker were not in demand from Bochum in the first few minutes, instead a stable defense. The Frankfurters, with their offensively chosen line-up, put pressure on from the start, but initially only had opportunities to take the lead through Lucas Alario (7th/23rd minute) – because Bochum was struggling. As the new coach Letsch had previously demanded: “It must be uncomfortable to play against us.”
The Bochum team took on the duels against the significantly stronger Frankfurt team, tried to take the ball from their opponents in their half and wanted to reward their performance. But Eintracht goalkeeper Kevin Trapp was not seriously tested by the harmless VfL offensive for a long time.
Borré misses the opening goal
Not even in the second half, in which Frankfurt started the game again and missed the greatest opportunity to take the lead with Rafael Borré’s (63rd) hit on the post. Bochum was initially only busy with defensive work. Frankfurt coach Glasner reacted and rearranged the offensive with Daichi Kamada coming on for the inconspicuous Götze.
But Bochum now had room to counterattack due to the guests’ urge to attack and took advantage of this: Hofmann turned the game upside down with his header after a corner, Frankfurt’s Ndicka, who unluckily deflected the ball into his own goal shortly before the end of the game, made the preliminary decision , before Förster scored Bochum’s third goal.
Current matchday Squad VfL Bochum Squad Eintracht Frankfurt
Source: Stern
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