5-2-1 to 1-2-5. That’s the comparition between Frankfurt‘s home form and Dortmund‘s away form this season. Eintracht will host Borussia in tonight‘s first game of the 18th round of Bundesliga and the match couldn‘t have come in a more incovinient moment for Nuri Sahin. Dortmund‘s rookie coach is facing a terrible season and the lowest point came after a New Year‘s break when they lost 4-2 in Kiel from a relegation candidate. To make things worst, the team looked an played terrible and a team which was once the strongest after Bayern Munich and chaced them in a title battle every season is now in 10th place with five points less than Leipzig, who holds the last remaining Champions League spot. Frankuft is currently in the thrid spot and plays excellent and Omar Marmoush is in full strentg and in great form, which is why Manchester City has agreed with Eintracht to pay 80 million euros for him. The contract is not yet signed, so the Egyptian forward will surely be in the squad tonight, just like Nuri Sahin.Borussia defeated by relegation strugglersBut after tonight‘s game, Marmoush will be on the plane and bound for England and what about Nuri? Another devastating defeat might be his last? For once, former Borussia player was a unimous choice between Dortmund‘s directors. They like him and respect him. But bad results, and a potential financial implications of anything less than the Champions League spot (we are talking about 40 million euros) are far more dangerous and BVB must think about a potential successor if things go from bad (right now) to worse (defeats in Frankfurt in Bologna). There are currently three potential candidates to replace Nuri Sahin in case he is fired.Marmoush is finally becoming a CitizenThe first (and the most famous one) is Erik ten Hag. Unlike Sahin and Terzić before hime, he has the experience, while success came only with Ajax, not Manchester United. He remains stronly connected with Borussia‘s powerful advisor Matthias Sammer and was seen watching Dortmundt‘s games in recent past. The second one is Roger Schmidt who had a great spell with Benfica, who certainly played the most beautiful football in Europe a few years ago under his leadership. A fire sale of some great players followed and Schmidt was never able to recover the magic and eventually got sacked. And just yesterday, another name appeared: Sandro Wagner. The former Bayern professional is Julian Nagelsmann’s assistant on the national team and DFB sports director Rudi Völler has so far been able to fend off all attempts to poach him. He is also unexperienced and is only one year older than Sahin, and according to the reports, he would prefer to stay with Nagelsmann at the moment, but he is on the shortlist anyway. So, the pressure is not only on players to do well tonight, but on Sahin too.BUNDESLIGA – MATCHDAY 18Friday22.30: (2.55) Eintr.Frankfurt (3.60) Dortmund (2.85)Saturday17.30: (1.20) Bayern (8.00) Wolfsburg (14.0)17.30: (3.80) Bochum (3.50) RB Leipzig (1.98)17.30: (2.50) Heidenheim (3.35) St.Pauli (2.85)17.30: (2.95) Holstein Kiel (3.50) Hoffenheim (2.35)17.30: (1.63) Stuttgart (4.00) Freiburg (5.30)20.30: (1.30) Leverkusen (5.80) M’ gladbach (9.00)Sunday17.30: (2.60) Union Berlin (3.15) Mainz (2.85)19.30: (1.90) Werder (3.50) Augsburg (4.10)**odds are subject to change**
