Eintracht Frankfurt’s Albert Riera rants about ‘anger, love, anxiety, and baggage’ after latest disappointing Bundesliga result
Eintracht Frankfurt’s Albert Riera rants about ‘anger, love, anxiety, and baggage’ after latest disappointing Bundesliga result Eintracht Frankfurt trainer Albert Riera – following the team’s latest disappointing Bundesliga result – didn’t take the bait when it came to another question about Mario Götze, yet still unleashed a hyper charged rant on “ anger, love, and anxiety ” at his post-match press conference. Eintracht ended up blowing a two goal lead against relegation-threatened Köln on Sunday. After Riera got defensive with a reporter over Götze’s dropping in the last Bundesliga match before the international break , Eintracht signed the German World Cup legend to a contract extension.
Götze did return to the squad and featured as a substitute off the bench. Riera demonstrated that he learned not to discuss individual players, giving rather formulaic answers about not only Götze but also Eintracht attackers Can Uzun and Jonathan Burkardt. When it came time to answer for the fact that Eintracht have still only won three of their eight Bundesliga matches under his watch, however, Riera repeatedly blamed the previous coaching regime helmed by Dino Toppmöller.
Riera kept stressing that he needed to shake the losing mentality out of his players. Albert Riera’s epic rant on “solving the problem” “ It’s easy to analyze to the game, ” Riera noted in his opening statement. “ I label [Köln] a goalkeeping team because they were playing long balls out via the goalkeeper.
We stopped winning duals and they scored goals because of that. We scored two goals and then we conceded two goals. ” After this innocuous enough opening statement, Riera spoke for nearly five minutes when fielding his first question.
Riera continued to reiterate the talking point of “s even months of baggage ” during every subsequent question. Riera sought to make clear that he had inherited an absolute mess from Toppmöller. “ I I were to be angry with them, what will I gain?