Overwhelmed: Bochum’s Moritz Broschinski (l.) tries to shield Frankfurt’s Nathaniel Brown from the ball.
Photo: dpa/Thomas Frey
Most stadium visitors can hardly be denied their footballing expertise. Sometimes just 20 minutes are enough for the fans to loudly chant and give a fitting summary. “Bochum, Bochum, second league – oh, how nice that is,” sneered the loud-voiced ultras from Eintracht Frankfurt, while the packed guest block of VfL Bochum soon announced in staccato: “We’ve had enough.”
Rarely has a Bundesliga game in the once again sold-out arena in the Stadtwald seemed so one-sided. In the end, the Hessians, who lived out their joy of playing quite uninhibitedly and unhindered, defeated the Revierklub 7:2 (4:1). Especially when the Adlerträger picked up the pace because the opponent foolishly wanted to press high at the beginning, the level of overtaxing for the bottom of the table reached worrying proportions.
In Hugo Ekitiké’s 1-0, Omar Marmoush was able to simply run away from his opponent Erhan Masovic (9th), in the 2-0th with Marmoush’s free kick the wall dissolved when he jumped up (18th), then Maximilian Wittek, who was substituted shortly afterwards, made a mistake the ball against Ansgar Knauff (20th). Later, Nathaniel Brown (32nd), Mahmoud Dahoud (61st), Can Uzun (66th) and again Ekitiké (69th) added their names to the list of goalscorers. Dani de Wit (35th) and Philipp Hoffmann (51st) couldn’t even save Bochum’s sense of honor.
Interim coach Markus Feldhoff immediately announced that they would have to think about it in detail after the trip home: “Because things can’t go on like this.” The assistant coach, who was temporarily promoted to replace the dismissed Peter Zeidler, had a lesson from the previous week against FC Bayern (0 :5) highlighted many positive aspects, now the 50-year-old spoke plainly after this oath of revelation: “I can only apologize to every VfL Bochum fan for what we offered today. Before the game, I said that we wanted to prove that we were competitive in the league.” We were “miles away” from that.
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Which is why substitute Gerrit Holtmann went to the angry supporters during the half-time break, whose frustration factor reached a new peak in Frankfurt. “I went there voluntarily because I was looking for an exchange,” Holtmann explained to Sky. “I know it’s hard to stay positive.” On a match day when both promoted teams celebrated their first wins, VfL slipped deeper and deeper into the mess. Center forward Hoffmann said: “A performance like that is simply not ready for the first league.” Although they avoided relegation in the previous season with a show of strength in the relegation game against Fortuna Düsseldorf, they noticeably lost substance in the summer. That’s why sports director Marc Lettau lost his job.
In no other competitive game has Eintracht encountered as little resistance as in this shooting festival. Even in the cup game against Eintracht Braunschweig (4:1) and most recently against Rigas FS (1:0) in the Europa League, scoring goals wasn’t that easy. Marmoush, who is in impressive form, trumped Eintracht icon Anthony Yeboah with his tenth goal of the season after nine match days. “If we continue to work like this and stay down to earth, we can achieve a lot,” said the Egyptian. In his slipstream, the young replacements in whom Eintracht coach Dino Toppmöller had probably trusted in anticipation of a less demanding task also impressed.
It shouldn’t be a risk to put US boy Nnamdi Collins, 20, German U21 international Brown, 21, and Frenchman Jean-Matteo Bahoya, 19, in the starting line-up. Later, another top talent was added, Uzun, 18, who Eintracht had signed from 1. FC Nürnberg for a fee of ten million euros against great competition. The rascals were immediately convincing. Brown and Uzun each scored their first goal in the upper house, which was accompanied by a celebration from the youngsters that had been practiced since their time in Nuremberg. Left-back Brown reported on the “best day” of his life: “Yes, it’s a childhood dream: first Bundesliga goal in a stadium like that, at a club like that, with a team like that!”
In their elation, the two of them immediately revealed that there was a strange bet going on. Brown doesn’t believe that his friend Uzun will have his driver’s license in his hands until his 19th birthday on November 11th. “He still doesn’t have one. I think it won’t work anymore. The bet is on me.”
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