With a gala performance Bundesliga side Eintracht Frankfurt for a place in the next round of the Europa League. The mood in the stands to beats of rage on the police in enthusiasm for the team.
“The stadium needs to burn.” With this statement in a television interview, Peter Fischer, President of Eintracht Frankfurt had taken care of apparently bright excitement at the security authorities. “The game is perhaps a bit foggy for you,” had given the club the boss of the TV-editor with a wide Grin on his face.
The police didn’t find it funny. Before the return game of the Europa League, intermediate round between the Concord and the Ukrainian champion Shakhtar Donetsk, the security arrived in force and by the Frankfurter Arena looking for pyrotechnics. They found nothing. But the mood was gone.
Head shake not only the Fans, but also the person in charge of the Bundesliga. “I’m touched, whether the developments,” said the Eintracht Board member Alex Hellmann. Fischer’s statement was “based on the Sporty and the mood” “and was in no way a call to violence”. The Fans abandoned the days of prepared choreography in the curve. The police action have made the time plan is dead, let the Eintracht supporters know. Some of them fought skirmishes with the police – but the inglorious beginning of a memorable football night in Frankfurt.
Eintracht-Fans pack up the Material for the planned choreography
“This is chemistry”
Because then it burned down, but the stadium after a football fireworks, set fire of a inspiring performances Eintracht Frankfurt, who won after the 2:2 in the first leg in the Ukraine in the return leg against Shakhtar with 4:1 (2:0), so that in the Europa League and remained in the eighth game of the season undefeated and into the round of sixteen moved in. “For me, has voted today,” said Eintracht coach Adi Hütter afterwards. And midfielder Sebastian Rode described the mood in this way: “It was electric in the stadium.”
Double strike in the first half
Hütter had set his team shiny against the Ukrainians, who had to play after the group stage of the Champions League as third place in their group in the Europa League. From the start, interfered with the German Bundesliga, the Team from Donetsk early in the development of the game and switched in possession of the ball extremely quickly on the Offensive. In the 23. Minute, the Hessen were rewarded for the first time. Danny da Costa sprinted through on the right, played inside, where Luka Jovic, is currently the Toptorjäger the Bundesliga, ice-cold from eight metres for the 1:0 einschoss. Four minutes later, Sébastien Haller turned a hand penalty for 2:0 (26.). The game seemed to be almost gone, the Two-goal halftime lead was well deserved.
Haller turns the hand the penalty kick for 2:0 for Frankfurt
Stepover, Goal
In the second round, Shakhtar, brought the Eintracht-fire temporarily under control, and began to play with them. Junior Moraes was a direct acceptance, six meters of the goal for the Donetsk (64.), then the crossbar saved twice: after a distance shot from Marlos (70.) and after a head to the ball from Taison (79.). Would burn the Concord yet?
Kevin Trapp: “Rarely has something so Loud”
Not in the least. The team remembered his own football brand pen qualities. Directly in return, Filip Kostic put shiny Haller in the scene, and pushed to a Stepover almost arrogant cool the Ball to the 3:1 (80.) into the goal. “I have rarely heard something so Loud,” said goalkeeper Kevin Trapp later, the reaction from the Fans on the third-Eintracht match. Substitute Ante Rebic made, finally, with a powerful low shot from the penalty area to the bottom right corner of the 4:1 (88.) a lid on it.
Long after the final whistle, the Fans and team celebrated the first intake of Concord in the next round of an international competition for 24 years. “The boys don’t come out even out of the curve,” said sporting Director Fredi Bobic. “These are the magic moments.” Even without the pyrotechnics and fog.