The Eintracht Braunschweig Gazette
Squad22 Dec 2031
Words exchanged at Eintracht Braunschweig
Lukas Frenkert and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad22 Dec 2031
A row about effort at Eintracht Braunschweig
Somebody said out loud what several people thought about how hard another man trains, and Mehmet Aydın was in the middle of it. The one dressing-room argument that is genuinely about football.
Match20 Dec 2031
Eintracht Braunschweig find a way past SC Paderborn
SC Paderborn made Eintracht Braunschweig work for it, but the scoreboard read 2‑0 at the end and the table does not ask how.
Player ratings22 Dec 2031
Nobody could get near Leo Sauer
Successful dribbles: 19. Every time he got the ball somebody had to make a decision, and every time the decision was wrong.
Player ratings22 Dec 2031
One of those days for Dave Kwakman
There is a version of this player everybody suspected was in there, and on this evidence it is. 8.33, and no argument anywhere in the ground.
Player ratings22 Dec 2031
A masterclass from Luciano Valente
Marked 8.08 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Squad22 Dec 2031
Patrick Becker out for 38 days
The medical room confirms 38 days on the sidelines for Patrick Becker, and a plan built around him now has to be rebuilt.
The dugout22 Dec 2031
Håkon Sjåtil gets it from the manager
“Nobody here is above being told.” It was not said with a name attached, but the dressing room can count, and so can everybody who was listening.
The dugout22 Dec 2031
The manager’s verdict
“I am not going to get carried away and I will not let them either. It was a good day. There will be harder ones.” Christoph Schumacher kept it short after the 2‑0 win, which is what managers do when they are happy.
In brief
- The dugout Nile John knocks on the manager’s door
- The dugout A promise honoured at Eintracht Braunschweig
- Market The Marcel Arnautovic talk will not go away