Frankfurt gets there in the first knockout round of the Europa to do League with Inter Milan. The state of Hesse are the last hope in the competition. Since 2009, no Bundesliga Team has reached the final.
Frankfurt, Filip Kostic in a game against Donetsk
The Europa League-Tour of the Bundesliga football team Eintracht Frankfurt continued with the challenging task against Inter Milan in the first knockout round. The the draw on Friday at the UEFA headquarters in Nyon. The games are on 7. and 14. March held in Frankfurt first. “This is a great pairing. Inter Milan is a great club and has a super stadium. This will be a great duel,” said Frankfurt coach Adi Hütter.
The Concord was reached on Thursday by a 4:1 against Shakhtar Donetsk for the first time in 24 years, the second round of an international competition and another exciting appearance. In eight Europa League Games, the Eintracht has celebrated seven victories and a draw.
Inter is one of the High-carat diamonds in the current competition. The 18-times Italian Champions won the competition three times, most recently in the season of 1997/98. In Serie A the team of coach Luciano Spalletti, currently occupies the third place. To count the Stars in the Team top scorer Mauro Icardi, the last but quarrels, as well as Ex-Bundesliga-Profi Ivan Perisic.
Sebastien Haller after successfully sank a penalty kick for 2:0 in the game against Donetsk
No German team in the final since the renaming in the Europa League
Frankfurt is the last remaining team in the competition, Bayer Leverkusen had failed in the intermediate round at FK Krasnodar. In the group stage, it had already been caught RB Leipzig. Since the competition of the 2009/10 season in the Europa League renamed, has managed a German Club in the final. In the UEFA Cup was the last time Werder Bremen in 2009 in the final, but lost against Donetsk. The last German winner of FC Schalke 04 in 1997. This year the final is on 29. May in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, held.
In the other eighth-final Play, it gets under the other, the Arsenal, in the case of the three German Mesut Özil, Bernd Leno and Shkodran Mustafi are under contract to do the French first division club Stade Rennes. FC Chelsea score to Dynamo Kiev, while RB Salzburg with the SSC Napoli have to measure.
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