Football: collection for Frankfurt in Dortmund

The table ninth Frankfurt, in which the ÖFB team players Martin Hinteregger and Stefan Ilsanker played through, threatens to fall out of the top ten at the weekend. And that before the first of two encounters with Salzburg in the EL sixteenth final on Thursday in Frankfurt. The “Bulls” had recently lost the home hit against LASK 2: 3 in the Bundesliga and therefore could not gain confidence.

BVB took the lead in front of 81,365 spectators with a left-footed shot from Lukasz Piszczek (33.) before the break. Immediately after the restart, a double strike by Jadon Sancho (49th) and Erling Haaland (54th) brought the final decision. Sancho scored for the 13th time this season, the 19-year-old ex-Salzburg Haaland could look forward to his eighth goal in his fifth game. The Norwegian was replaced in the 79th minute. Raphael Guerreiro (74th) took care of the end.

step forward

With this, BVB returned to winning ways after defeating Werder Bremen in the DFB Cup and losing 3: 4 at Bayer Leverkusen. This went hand in hand with second place in the table, the gap to leader Bayern Munich was initially reduced to one point. The defending champion will only be visiting 1. FC Köln on Sunday. Third-placed RB Leipzig, equal to Dortmund, will play Bremen at home on Saturday.

The Frankfurt, who had started the new year more successfully than ever in their club history, are still stuck with 28 points in the middle of the table. “We were just too harmless ahead,” said Eintracht midfielder Sebastian Rode.

“You have to say that the clearly better team won. The class difference could be seen, ”said Hütter. “It was not a good performance for us, we did not come close to our performance level as a complete team did not bring the game into the place that we can and wanted,” analyzed the Frankfurt coach. They also had too much respect for the opponent had.

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