Again I didn't win – and now I lost my nerve. In the 1-3 defeat against TSG Hoffenheim, Oliver Glasner in particular made a bad impression. First, the Eintracht coach, who had kicked a ball onto the field ("It was my silent protest against the referee's performance"), saw red because of this lack of control. Then, in the press conference, he lacked the necessary composure when he was asked a harmless question and the Austrian shouted at the journalist.
The day after, Eintracht board spokesman Axel Hellmann commented on the incident. It was "palpable" that Glasner was "disappointed". He could understand this, Hellmann said on Sunday at "Bild" on TV. "But what I can't understand at all is that you take out this disappointment on a journalist who does his job there and asks his question in a very calm way without a cynical undertone."
After the tenth winless Bundesliga game in a row, Glasner had verbally attacked a reporter who had asked whether the team had not realized the table constellation. "Stop me with this rubbish. I know what the boys are doing," the excited Glasner roared at the long-time Eintracht reporter, among other things.
"To be honest, I can't see much positive in it," Hellmann said. "When Oliver Glasner thinks about it again, he knows that it was neither good nor right to react in this way." Glasner had apologized on Saturday evening for his derailment.