Benjamin Schäfer

Left Wingback - Eintracht Braunschweig U18
19 Dec 2027
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72 Edition

The Eintracht Braunschweig Gazette

13 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad13 Dec 2027

The knee: Benjamin Schäfer out for 33 days

33 days on the announcement, and a year of quiet, unwatched rehabilitation behind it. Eintracht Braunschweig lose a player for a season; he loses something harder to name.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Tempers go at Eintracht Braunschweig

Cyriaque Irié was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Real improvement from Frankie Runham at Eintracht Braunschweig

Form comes and goes; this has not gone. Frankie Runham is 20, and the version of him training now would not have got into the side he was in a year ago.

Player ratings13 Dec 2027

Cyriaque Irié runs at them all day

Successful dribbles: 21. There is a particular sort of despair on a full-back's face by the seventieth minute, and it was on display.

Squad13 Dec 2027

Words at Eintracht Braunschweig training over how hard people work

Somebody said out loud what several people had been thinking. Mehmet Aydın is at the centre of it, and the squad will now find out whether the standard rises or the pair of them simply stop speaking.

The dugout13 Dec 2027

No hiding place for Vincent Vermeij

“I pick players who do the work. All of it.” No name was spoken; every camera still turned to Vincent Vermeij, and the manager let it.

Match11 Dec 2027

Eintracht Braunschweig see off Darmstadt 98

Three points for Eintracht Braunschweig, 1‑0 the final word against Darmstadt 98 in a contest settled by the finer margins.

Market13 Dec 2027

Still no ink between Eintracht Braunschweig and Vincent Vermeij

“We keep meeting, and we keep leaving the room with the same numbers we walked in with.” Another round of talks at Eintracht Braunschweig, another week without a signature from Vincent Vermeij.

Player ratings13 Dec 2027

Aaron Opoku was the difference for Eintracht Braunschweig

Marked 7.93. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief

  • The dugout The view from the dugout
  • The dugout Mehmet Aydın knocks on the manager's door
  • The dugout Somebody else is better right now than Walter Montoya
Back issues
71 Edition

The Eintracht Braunschweig Gazette

6 Dec 2027
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Squad6 Dec 2027

A knee injury of the worst kind for Benjamin Schäfer

41 days on the estimate, and a long, private, unglamorous year of a rehabilitation nobody watches. Eintracht Braunschweig lose a footballer; he loses considerably more than a season.

Squad6 Dec 2027

David Herold falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Lino Tempelmann in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at Eintracht Braunschweig this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Loan watch6 Dec 2027

Linus Queißer counts the days

“I watch every Eintracht Braunschweig game from here. That says everything about where my head is.” The loan at Samsunspor runs its course, but his heart never made the trip.

Match4 Dec 2027

Eintracht Braunschweig get the job done against SV Elversberg

A 1‑0 win over SV Elversberg, earned rather than given, and the sort of afternoon that sends everyone home talking about next week instead of this one.

Squad6 Dec 2027

Appearance number 100 for Göktan Gürpüz

100 games in this shirt, through managers and relegations and everything else. Service like it is disappearing from the game and the crowd knows what it is watching.

The dugout6 Dec 2027

Lino Tempelmann 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.

Market6 Dec 2027

Talks stall between Eintracht Braunschweig and Carl Johansson

“We are a long way apart, and pretending otherwise helps nobody.” Neither side is close, and the calendar is not on the club's side.

Player ratings6 Dec 2027

Danel Sinani was the difference for Eintracht Braunschweig

Marked 7.78. Ask anyone leaving the ground what settled it and you will get one name, which is the only award that has ever really counted.

In brief