5-1 against Sandhausen

Oliver Glasner took the opportunity to give runouts to several players who have either had limited playing time this season or recently returned from injury, including Christopher Lenz, Faride Alidou and Lucas Alario. Summer signing Aurelio Buta made his first start in an Eintracht shirt, while Tuta was deployed in a new holding midfield role.

South American double

On a chilly training pitch outside Deutsche Bank Park, the Eagles controlled proceedings from the off and opened the scoring after seven minutes, Rafael Borré bringing the ball down and finishing neatly. They had a double chance to increase their lead in the 18th minute, Alario heading over on the rebound after Lenz went for goal from the left wing. Alario did get on the scoresheet soon after, though, turning in Buta’s low cross from the right. Borrécould have made it three shortly before half-time, but narrowly missed the target from Alidou’s pull-back. The visitors, for their part, did get forward but failed to create any notable goalscoring opportunities in the first 45 minutes.

Eagles ruthless

After a shorter interval, Eintracht came out of the blocks quickly in the second half and added two goals in as many minutes. First Tuta smashed the ball into the top corner from just outside the area after being teed up by Alario, and then Alidou took full advantage of a misunderstanding in the Sandhausen defence.

After that, the contest understandably went a little flat before opening up towards the end. Immanuel Höhn had a rare chance for the visitors, heading just over from a free-kick, minutes before the lively Borré netted his second and his team’s fifth goal. Sandhausen did manage a consolation goal through Dario Dumic late on, while Junior Dina Ebimbe struck the post with a long-range effort at the other end, meaning it finished 5-1