Albert Riera

David Ngog certainly didn't score enough.

It's not gonna be Riera, I don't think it'll be Benny Youen.

Uh, that brings us back to Harry Kewell.

Vladi Smicer maybe? No, seems unlikely.

And I think that Eintracht thought they were going to get that.

Last year, everything fell through the floor at Eintracht then, right? Like, they just collapsed in on themselves, didn't work with Topmuller, didn't really work with Riera.

And Larsson had a pretty poor season, ended up not in the World Cup squad.

Equally, kind of everyone had a pretty poor season at Eintracht.

It didn't really work.

Albert Riera came in as the manager.

That didn't really work either.

It all just felt like things were falling apart around their feet at Eintracht last year.

I say that.

The one thing that Riera had going for him as Eintracht Frankfurt manager is that the defence did get better.

That was massively to the detriment of...

Diadla's attack but at least their defense did better than they were doing before in this game they crashed back to reality crashed back to how they were playing under Dino Topmola and if you remember correctly it was that defense that got Dino Topmola fired they were bad in this game they were bad with how they dealt with the Latela goal they were bad with how they dealt with Querfaud's goal in the 79th minute and they were kind of bad with harried out with tim skarka's goal in the 92nd minute that rescued a point for new york berlin granted it would be a bit harsh on tim skarka in particular to just pin this goal on the eintracht frankfurt defense because his back heel sort of flick was absolutely fantastic and one of the best goals of the weekend so yeah A while back and forth game, absolutely go and watch the highlights to this.

However, they do need to sort out that defence.

It's the one thing that I would give Albert Riera credit for when he came in second half of last season.

Do you remember the first half last season where Frankfurt were conceding three goals in every single game, in every competition they played in? It was a

hockey score every game.

Finished eighth, conceded 65 goals, missed on Europe.

The Albert Riera reign was a catastrophe.

Nothing less, nothing more.

And now Adi Jutta returns five years after leaving Eintracht Frankfurt.