Eintracht Frankfurt: Glasner speaks of good training stimulus

"'Follow that you don't hurt and congratulate Bayer Leverkusen', these were my last words," said Oliver Glasner at the press conference. He didn't mean that seriously. However, he had to ask himself the questions about the very harmless idea of his better B team in Leverkusen. "The Thursday game has a top priority, you saw that in the line -up," Glasner admitted frankly. At least one eye was already resting on the semi-final second leg in the Europa League against West Ham United on Thursday.

• Hradecky also notices: "Eintracht was not so aggressive"
• Hinteregger and Lindström against West Ham further questionable

"We wanted to give the players who will play on Thursday," said Glasner his approach. In Filip Kostic and Tuta, only two field players were on the pitch from the start that had also started in the first leg in London. Both were replaced at half -time. "We planned that Kostic and Knauff alternate and everyone plays a half," said Glasner at DAZN. "It was not totally exhausted physically, it was a good training stimulus in quotation marks."

Hradecky also notices: "Eintracht was not so aggressive"

A good training stimulus in a game against a team that was about qualifying for the Champions League? Glasner didn't want to know anything about a distortion of competition. "I didn't see that someone wanted to spare themselves," he said. "Anyone who saw the game has seen that we fired everything out."

At least in the second round, however, after the 0: 2 deficit, there was hardly any rearing against the defeat that is ancestry. Even Leverkusen's keeper Lukas Hradecky noticed that. "Eintracht was not that aggressive," he said about the performance of his ex-club. "We know why."

The hard rotation justified Glasner with the high meaning discrepancy of league and Europa League for the SGE: "Where we can no longer reach in the Bundesliga and can reach an international final after more than 40 years, it was just right."

Hinteregger and Lindström against West Ham further questionable

Especially since individual players who collected "training stimuli" against Leverkusen could also start against West Ham. Both Martin Hinteregger ("He is still sick and has not trained") and Jesper Lindström ("It will be a close story, probably it will probably only decide on the match day") are questionable for the game against the Premier League club.