Daily Soccer Buzz: Soccer-Bundesliga: Hannover to Frankfurt win in second table

Sunday, January 16, 2011

Soccer-Bundesliga: Hannover to Frankfurt win in second table

Hannover 96 is rushed, despite the turmoil around coach Mirko Slomka on second place in the Bundesliga. The Lower Saxony won the second round opener 3-0 (2-0) at Eintracht Frankfurt and gradually more people dream of qualifying for the Champions League. Previously had discussions about a possible jump of Slomka still worried this season for irritation.

Eintracht lost to eighth in contact with the front of the field a bit. Mohamed Abdellaoue (15) with his fifth goal of the season, Christian Schulz (21) and Didier Ya Konan with his tenth goal of the season (89th) scored 39 300 spectators in front of the gates of Hanover. The guests, in which Slomka in goal the 21-year-old Ron-Robert Zieler was surprisingly preferred to Florian Fromlowitz convinced, as in the preliminary round by serenity on the defensive and offensive efficiency.

After the final whistle went immediately to his employer Slomka compliments. "It's a great feeling, sometimes to stand in second place. We work together very well. At Hannover 96, it fits very moment "The players praised the coach:". Our forwards are really, really good. And objectives very, very good scenes had.

He has done a really good game. "Abdellaoue Hanover took the lead with a counter. After a bad pass from midfielder Benjamin Koehler Eintracht Sergio Pinto responded quickly and put in Abdellaoue exemplary scene. Just six minutes later by Schulz's header from a corner by Konstantin Rausch 2-0.

In Frankfurt saw the Swiss international Pirmin Schwegler on top of all the fifth yellow card and is now locked away on Friday at Hamburger SV. "We have not yet started in the second half, was not much today," said Schwegler. "The people of Hannover have been freezing their doors to us has a certain something missing," said Captain Patrick Ochs.

Although the unity of the play determined team, but the Hessians was rarely provided for danger. Zieler was on his Bundesliga debut hardly be seriously considered. A distance shot of Kohler (19), stroked the gate. Even top-scorer Theofanis Gekas could hardly set the scene.