Eintracht Frankfurt marvel at ‘unrivaled’ Bayern Munich and ‘world class’ Harry Kane | OneFootball

Eintracht Frankfurt’s 0-3 home defeat against Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich on Saturday night didn’t leave Dino Toppmöller with much room to maneuver in his post-match comments. Though his team might have scored an equalizer shortly after Bayern opened the scoring in the 1st minute, there are few who will dispute that a handball from Ritsu Doan in the lead up to Jean-Matteo Bahoya’s 14th-minute disallowed goal should have been disregarded.

Toppmöller complained anyway, citing an instances in last week’s crazy ten-goal affair against Borussia Mönchengladbach in which his team wasn’t awarded a handball penalty. On the topic of that match, it’s important to note that Gladbach’s four unanswered goals in the second half kicked off a worrying trend. Taking Tuesday’s Champions League shellacking into account Frankfurt have been outscored 12-1 in their last 223 minutes of football.

“I don’t think these games should be used as a yardstick to evaluate the boys right now,” Toppmöller insisted when conducting a post-match interview with Sky Germany after the match. “It’s important for us to know that we still have a little room for improvement in order to compete at this level.”

“No one has been able to keep up with Bayern at their level thus far [this year],” Toppmöller continued, adding special praise for Harry Kane’s distance effort that made it 0-2 in the 27th-minute. “That was a typical Bayern goal and Harry Kane’s finish was simply world class.

“We’re just glad that we have a break now and can catch our breath,” Toppmöller concluded. “Then we’ll attack again.”

SGE board-member-for-sport Markus Krösche concurred with his coach’s assessment of Bayern’s performance on the evening. Krösche had little choice but to shrug his shoulders and admit that Bayern don’t look to be beatable at the moment.

“Against Bayern, you always need a good game plan,” Krösche remarked in the mixed zone. “Looking at the first half, that was certainly not the case for us today. Especially in their current form, Bayern are in a class of their own. To compete with them, you need to be in top form. We weren’t today.“

GGFN | Peter Weis