Kröse: Then there is just on the face

A danger with a view of the coming home game against the Bundesliga tail light does not see Markus Krösche declared. "Of course, the focus from the outside is totally on Barcelona. You can not keep that completely away from the team," said the Eintracht boss as part of a media round on Wednesday. "But the guys know what matters: reliably in the Bundesliga points to bring, as we have done that last. We have to go through that now. That's why the focus is now full of Fürth." Against the francs, the team of coach Oliver Glasner is on 2 April Haushoher Favorite, marriage spiked five days later Barça in Deutsche Bank Park.

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Challenge Fürth: "There we have to find solutions on possession..."

But a challenge will already be the duel with Fürth, how to look through: "We are expected to have a lot of possession of possession and have to find solutions. Defensive we make it good as a team, but we can and we have to be in many areas improve." In addition, croses reaffirm again: "Our goal is to play again in Europe next year. Everyone has seen how horny that is. It's worth investing everything." Currently six points behind rank six finds the sports board "Okay". Finally, you still have "the possibility against direct competitors like Hoffenheim, Freiburg and Union points" - and should create a good starting position against Fürth ". From understatement to the target, in order to be able to surprise a positive in doubt, Krösche does not keep anything: "If you have goals, you have to define them, express and demand. If you do not reach them, there's just on the face, that's just the face just like that. But I'm not a friend not to give goals at all. You have to be ambitious to achieve goals. To do a certain attitude, with optimism and conviction. But of course the goals must be realistic and achievable. Would not stop me now and exclaim the Champions League participation. "

No future for Da Costa and Ilsanker

Insights also gave crosse into personnel planning. "It may be that we do something in the offensive. It's about flexibility to be less credible," the 41-year-old. However, it is not "not possible to pay a high transfer for a striker" - and not necessary in the face of the occupation with Rafael Borré and the Randal Kolo Muani, which is dazed by FC Nantes. The 23-year-old Frenchman wanted to "help to become one of the top players in Europe" at the Eintracht ". Being open is the whereabouts of service providers whose contracts expire 2023, concrete Filip Kostic, Evan Ndicka and Daichi Kamada. "It may be that one or the other leaves us in summer." Of course, nothing was decided, even a contract extension is not excluded. The cases Danny da Costa and Stefan Ilsanker are stored differently. Both actors from the second row have meanwhile clearly signaled that their working papers ended in the summer of 2022 are not extended.