At the very end, Omar Marmoush was given a key role off the pitch after the game had completely passed him by. The Egyptian striker in the ranks of Eintracht made many people happy on St. Nicholas Day in Saarbrücken: The 24-year-old took on the task of the messenger who marched into the Frankfurt locker room to pick up jerseys from his colleagues and hand them over to the opponent’s players who were in Rows and rows of people waited to receive their previously agreed upon gifts.
Eintracht left a liberal impression on Wednesday in Saarbrücken’s Ludwigsparkstadion, especially in terms of sport, which caused them to slide into a results crisis at the beginning of December, which led to a serious aggravation of the problem for Dino Toppmöller: The 43-year-old will have to show in his first head coaching position at a Bundesliga club that that he can cope with increasing pressure. The embarrassing cup exit against the third division club, five games without a win in a row and the encounter on Saturday (3.30 p.m. in the FAZ live ticker for the Bundesliga and on Sky) with FC Bayern in the Bundesliga, which is now associated with manageable hope for improvement, have influenced the mood clouded around the club. “We have to defend ourselves collectively,” he said on Thursday.
