Puzzling injury: SGE fears for Star

The return of goal scorer Sebastien Haller to DFB Cup winner Eintracht Frankfurt is still not foreseeable.

“We’re doing everything we can to avoid surgery. Stand now he is not operated. We will look for an alternative way”, coach Adi Hütter said before the duel with Hertha BSC on Saturday (from 15.30 in the LIVETICKER). The attacker is currently staying with a “specialist” in Austria.

The French, second best goalscorer in Hessen with 19 compulsory goals, have been out of action for an abdominal muscle injury since the beginning of the month. Hütter knows the specialist “very well”, but he is not a doctor, but someone “for exactly the area in which Sebastien Haller has problems”. When asked whether Haller would still be playing this season, the 49-year-old replied: “The season is no longer long. I can’t tell you if it’s enough today.”

In the Bundesliga, the Frankfurters are still fighting for their first qualification for the Champions League. In the Europa League, they will play against the English top club FC Chelsea on Thursday (live on DAZN from 9 p.m.) for a place in the final of Baku. “We can create history,” said Hütter, who only thinks of the game against the Berliners on Saturday: “If we want to stay in the top four, we have to win the game,” said the Eintracht coach.