BVB-Jewel Ansgar Knauf shines at Eintracht Frankfurt: The win-win-win

With the clear goal of getting self-green Ansgar Knauf more game practice, the BVB was in winter on a 1.5-year-old loan deal with Eintracht Frankfurt. The first impressions of offensive talents are quite promising, SGE coach Oliver Glasner expects from his new protégé but even more.

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Normally, the header game does not count to the strengths of a 1.80 meter wing glitter.

But the perfect jumping technique, the Ansgar Knauf in the 17th minute of the Bundesliga match between Hertha BSC and Eintracht Frankfurt to the day, is likely to be jealous of selfish.

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With his worth seeing for the edge of Filip Kostic, Knauf initiated the convincing 4: 1 (1: 0) victory of Eintracht in Berlin last Saturday.

How much 20-year-old must have longed for a personal sense of achievement, the moments made clear after his goal: with outstretched poor tracked the junior national player and finally slid on the corner flag.

"It feels great, it was a great game of the entire team, I am delighted incredibly my first goal," he beamed in conversation with the "ARD".

It was a first exclamation mark of the Highly Assisted Youngster, who will establish themselves in Frankfurt and recommend for higher tasks. Or rather said: for a second chance at Borussia Dortmund.

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Only in January Knauf had left the BVB and joined the lending fund of Frankfurt Eintracht. At the Hesse, the TempoDribbler hoped for more operating time at a high level.

Why he was a little out in the Hinserie in Dortmund, the native Göttingen recently revealed in an interview.

"That was certainly not at the coach," Knauf realized in the interview with the "Frankfurter Rundschau" clearly not to blame with Marco Rose: "The BVB has a top-cast squad with top players. It is always difficult in this great, wide cadre to come to a lot of playing time. "

Only five times he had until the winter break for the Borussia in the Bundesliga rankedurft - always as a joker and never more than 45 minutes. Too little for Knauf, who had been one of the shooting stars in Dortmund last spring.

When the SGE managers learned about the righteous location of Talent, they did not hesitate long and made a small change of air tasty both the player and his root club. A bending fee of 400,000 euros was agreed.

All pages hoped for a win-win-win situation - Knauf on more playing time, Frankfurt on a new offensive momentum and BVB on the further development of his unpolished raw diamond. And lo and behold: the first weeks were quite a promising.

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In the process, Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner had initially been extremely important to not too high the expectations of the winter newcomer.

"Ansgar, of course, now has one or the other, which is different because we play with a triple chain," the Austrian warned in February before possible adaptation problems.

Of course, the exercise leader has not escaped that Knauf has become more courageous from week to week - with the preliminary highlight in Berlin, when he worked the right flank tirelessly.

Ansgar Knauf (l.) Trew against Hertha for the first time

That's exactly what Glasner had challenged by him. "We want him to use his strengths. His pace, his depth, which he can bring into the game. He is running strong and attacks the rooms behind the chain," the coach counted Knauff's most striking features.

With its plan, which provided the legal foot carefully to the starting eleven, Glasner was apparently golden. Knauf seems to be arrived in Frankfurt and the most recently not always pierced team to give new impetus. A development that is pleased to note in Dortmund.

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Before the eighth-final first leg in the Europa League on Wednesday evening Knauf has already become a hopefound of the Frankfurt swept. Against Betis Seville (from 18:45 clock in the live ticker and at RTL +), a place in the initial formation beckons again.

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Anyway, Knauf has not regretted his decision for a new adventure. As a return step, the 20-year-old has never understood the change to the SGE anyway.

On possible quality differences between his old and his new teammates, he recently said, "I would not say that Eintracht is the weaker team. From the level it's great, that does not take much." Many words that prove: Knauf sees Eintracht Frankfurt not only as a career springboard, the U21 international has properly pop on the club. So it can actually be something with the desired win-win-win situation. Heiko Lükehus