Eintracht Frankfurt – Sébastien Haller

Of course, Sebastien Haller also met Saturday in Augsburg for the ninth time of this round. Almost no mention is worth it. A scorer who hits reliably is almost a message from the motto "The dog bites the postman". Normality. Sébastien Haller also prepared another goal in the match. If we also know that the statisticians have already credited eight badists, the Frenchman of 24 years in the service of Eintracht Frankfurt is leading the ranking of unofficial markers. And there is no end in sight. Nine goals so after twelve games, for a total of 912 minutes. Barely these last nine goals, the man had scored for Hesse last year, in his first year in the Bundesliga, but after 34 matches. But that alone makes one thing clear: Sebastien Haller has never been so good, as valuable as yet. And that is Anthony Yeboah, legend of Eintracht, who is starring. The Ghanaians had met in 1993 in eight consecutive matches, Haller so far in seven.

And there plays and meets and beats another Sebastien Haller as the one who played in the previous round for concord, hit and fought two. It was not bad either, at least not at first. He scored goals, of course, but the man did not really play well. Often, he looked awkward, mentally slow, he had, it seems, also playful deficits, sometimes he looked like a foreign body. In the second half, he did not improve, on the contrary, he was completely invisible. At present, he has not scored more goals, a single goal against Bayern Munich, with the knee, more coincidences than wanted. And the father of Ris-Orangis family, located 25 kilometers south-east of Paris, has even lost his usual place at the top.

The title of FR in the spring a story about the marker a.D. Last May, in the Cup final, the club's biggest triumph in 30 years, Haller spent 89 minutes on the bench, defeating 89 minutes before taking the advantage on the clock. And, nobody missed him.

Anyone who sees Sebastien Haller playing and reads the March, April and May critics can not believe they are identical players. For now, Haller has become an integral part of the Frankfurt game. He is the team on the front line, it is the target sought, which rises and distributes the (long) balls by winning many duels of heads. He is the man who creates spaces in which others can begin. He is probably the most important actor in Frankfurt, alongside Makoto Hasebe and goaltender Kevin Trapp.