Eintracht Frankfurt just avoided another serious setback in the Bundesliga. Coach Oliver Glasner’s team saved a 1: 1 (0: 1) in the home game against RB Leipzig on Saturday. Tuta equalized for Hessen in the fourth minute of stoppage time with the last action, but they are still waiting for the second win of the season. With so far only one win in ten games and only nine points, Europa League participants Eintracht Frankfurt are still in the lower half of the table.
Yussuf Poulsen scored the opening goal for the guests in the 35th minute after a controversial corner kick. The Leipziger are unbeaten in six league games, but missed the leap to fourth place in the table. So there was no tailwind for the Champions League hit on Wednesday against Paris Saint-Germain.
As is so often the case this season, the Eintracht play area seemed pretty headless, unimaginative and haphazard for long stretches. The last often shaky defense of the hosts was able to withstand more than half an hour against the Saxons, who were dominant and wiser from the start, even though there were dicey situations.
In the tenth minute, the guests had their first big chance: Amadou Haidara carefully lifted the ball into the penalty area and into the run of Dominik Szoboszlai, who extended to Poulsen. The Dane failed free-standing against Eintracht goalkeeper Kevin Trapp. For the first time, the Hessians made a goal danger, albeit a little happy, in the 18th minute. A slightly warped cross from Filip Kostic flew over RB keeper Peter Gulacsi to the right crossbar. Frankfurt was also lucky two minutes later when Christopher Nkunku steered the ball with a heel onto the opposing goal, but Trapp again parried strongly. Poulsen puts the margin on the post. Shortly afterwards it was Kostic again who challenged Gulacsi with a hard shot from 25 meters, but could not overcome him.
The Leipzigers made it 1-0 better, but not quite correctly. Willi Orban headed a corner from Szoboszlai to Poulsen, who shot the ball over the line somewhat acrobatically from close range. However, the corner was unjustified, as the Leipzig Josko Gvardiol had previously directed the ball out of the goal.
After the restart, the Frankfurt team went to work with great commitment and good tackle, but hardly found any gaps in the Leipzig defense. In contrast, the guests had the chance to increase to 2-0 in the 69th minute, but Nkunku failed because of the strong Eintracht goalkeeper Trapp. André Silva, who came on as a substitute in the 65th minute and scored 28 goals for Frankfurt last season, was unable to set any accents for the Leipzig team. Shortly before the end, substitute Emil Forsberg missed the huge chance to make it 2-0 when he shot over the empty goal. That should take revenge when Tuta hit his head in stoppage time.
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