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Eintracht face a Borussia Mönchengladbach side under new management in their fifth league game of the season on Saturday evening.

Backdrop

The Eagles were left frustrated on Sunday afternoon after losing 4-3 at home to Union Berlin.  The Eintracht players were critical of their own performance at Deutsche Bank Park, with midfielder Hugo Larsson saying: “There’s a lot we need to do better. Our mentality and fighting spirit until the very end are definitely positives we can take from the game.” And they can take them into the Bundesliga’s primetime fixture on Matchday 5, when Dino Toppmöller’s side lock horns with Borussia Mönchengladbach at 18:30 CEST on Saturday 27 September.

Eintracht head to BORUSSIA-PARK with six points and 11 goals – the second-highest tally in the division behind leaders Bayern – to their name so far. The Foals, meanwhile, have yet to win in the league this season, drawing two and losing two of their four matches.

New man in the hot seat

Stretching back to last season, Borussia have now gone 11 games without a win in the Bundesliga – a 12thgame without victory would equal an unwanted club record. Eugen Polanski, who replaced Gerardo Seoane in the hot seat last week, made a respectable start to his tenure as Borussia held Bayer Leverkusen to a 1-1 draw at the BayArena.

Polanski came through Gladbach’s youth system and made 54 appearances for the first team, before spells with Spanish side Getafe, Mainz and TSG Hoffenheim. The 39-year-old faced Eintracht 15 times as a player, registering seven wins, four draws and four defeats. Having occupied various coaching roles at youth level since hanging up his boots seven years ago, Polanski is now getting his chance in the Bundesliga.

Looking back

This is a fixture with plenty of history, with the two sides having faced each other 102 times in the German top flight and on 110 occasions overall. Eintracht have won 42 and lost 37 of those games, but the scales have started to tip further in the Eagles’ favour in recent years. The Hessians have won four and drawn four of their last eight league meetings with Borussia, whose last victory came in back April 2021. Eintracht will do everything in their power to extend that impressive streak on Saturday – ideally with another three points.