Preview of DFB Pokal

According to this article on the SGE official website,



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EINTRACHT: Friedhelm Funkels mögliche Startelf: Pröll – Ochs, Russ, Kyrgiakos, Köhler – Fink, Inamoto – Streit, Meier, Thurk – Amanatidis.

Bank-Kandidaten: Nikolov (Tor), Ljubicic, Toski, Köhler, Takahara, Preuß, Thurk, Galindo, Weissenberger, Chris, Mahdavikia.

Nicht einsatzfähig: Vasoski (Sehnenabriss), Heller (Rückenprobleme), Chaftar (Sprunggelenk), Spycher (Wade).
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Oh, Marco again...?! I'm glad about it personally, but I thought Funkel would use Galindo. I think Galind needs to be combat-proven in SGE as soon as he can. It must be good for Funkel and SGE if Galindo fits for them earlier. Maybe many SGE fans have the same idea.


And...

Taka is in the bench again. I know Ama is a good player, but I'd say Taka is better as a CF at this moment. I don't say so because I'm Japanese (You know I like German players basically).

Taka denyed the conflict with Funkel. But I can guess, Most of people think Funkel and Taka are in bad mood if Funkel wouldn't use Taka because of this rumor. Is Funkel ok of it? Do German fans admit to put healthy Taka in the bench...?

The Japanese national team's coach Osim has declared that he won't use a player who isn't a regular in his team, even if it's Nakamura from Celtic, Taka and Ina. All of Japanese know these three guys are the keys for JP national team, so we hope they can be regulars in their own team.
Of course Taka himself knows this Osim's requirement. So then, this Funkel's tactics has a big effect on Taka and us. Luckily, we don't have an international A match in near future, the next important match for Japan will held on 6 Feb. But Bundesliga has a winter break, so it means Taka needs to be a regular and needs to show his ability to Osim until December.

Herr Funkel, give Taka a regular seat, BITTE!

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Many SGE fans seem to look forward to Taka's play at today's DFB Pokal game.
Danke!
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Anyway, SGE has to play at an incredible yellow-colored stadium today. Hopefully will win the game, at least a draw, bitte.