Four days before receiving Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League, Leipzig is not reassured. Serious but feverish defensively, Jesse Marsch’s players were hooked by Eintracht Frankfurt (1-1) this Saturday and missed a great opportunity to move up the standings. They remain in eighth place in the Bundesliga, and are 10 points behind league leaders Bayern Munich.
A goal conceded in the last seconds
Yet Leipzig had done the job. After Yussuf Poulsen opened the scoring from a corner (35th), the future opponent of the capital club recited his ranges, facing a team from Frankfurt grouped together in its part of the field and inoffensive. Confident and very enterprising, Christopher Nkunku’s teammates stepped up the assaults on Kevin Trapp’s cages (14 shots, six on target) without ever realizing their domination. Indeed, Dominik Szoboszlai (36th, 52nd, 79th), Christopher Nkunku (59th, 68th) and Emil Forsberg (83rd, 88th) did not succeed in deceiving the vigilance of the former goalkeeper of the PSG.
And inevitably, what had to happen happened. On a free kick granted in added time, Filip Kostic dropped the ball on Tuta, which dampened the hopes, and the morale, of the men of Jesse Marsch (90th + 4).
Last of group A in the Champions League with no points taken in three games, Leipzig will want to unlock its counter against the club of the capital, Lille scorer on Friday. To relaunch in the most beautiful of European competitions.
