Sunday December 12th 2021
Eintracht ignites the gate turbo
Leverkusen leads up and goes under
Bayer Leverkusen quickly looks very good on the 15th Bundesliga matchday: In Frankfurt, the guests quickly take a 2-0 lead. But then everything goes down the drain. In the end there is a bitter defeat.
Eintracht Frankfurt celebrated a spectacular shooting festival against Bayer 04 Leverkusen in a duel between two Europa League round of 16 players. At the end of the 15th matchday in the Bundesliga, coach Oliver Glasner’s team defeated third place in the table with 5: 2 (2: 2). In front of 12,000 spectators, Bayer striker Patrik Schick (5th and 22nd minute / hand penalty) gave the guests a 2-0 lead. It was his hit 13 and in 14 in twelve Bundesliga soccer games so far. The Frankfurt goals were scored by Tita (23rd), Jesper Lindström (30th), Evan Ndicka (50th), Kristijan Jakic (66th) and Djbril Sow (76th). While the Frankfurt team is gaining momentum in league one, the Werkself suffered a severe setback in the championship race. Eintracht, on the other hand, climbed to ninth place in the table.
For the Leverkusen, who previously scored ten goals in the two league games at RB Leipzig (3: 1) and against SpVgg Greuther Fürth (7: 1), scoring goals on the Main quickly continued. The focus was again on chic. Florian Wirtz steered the ball with his heel to Andrich, who passed on and the Czech scored to make it 1-0.
In the 22nd minute he increased with a confidently converted hand penalty to 2-0. The ball had jumped to the hand of the Frankfurt Sow in a duel with Robert Andrich, which referee Marco Fritz only recognized after video evidence. is. With that, Schick achieved two anniversaries: It was the 5,000th penalty kick in Bundesliga history and the Bayer striker was the 1,000th shooter.
However, the Leverkusen had to quickly bury the hope of another shooting festival. A few seconds later, Tuta scored the 1: 2 after the ball flew to him after a corner from the bustle and he was able to pull away from the goal-area line undisturbed. And the race to catch up with the Hessians continued. After a nice move from defender Martin Hinteregger over Rafael Borre and Sow, who played Lindström cleverly into the run. With a hard, precise shot, the Dane marked the 2: 2.
After the restart, the exchange of blows continued lively and made to measure for the very agile Eintracht. After a corner from Filip Kostic, the ball fell at Ndicka’s feet, who made it 3-2 from close range. A little later, the guests were able to thank their goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky, who was able to steer a tough, deflected free kick by Kostic with his fingers over the bar. After that, the Finn was powerless against goals from Jakic and Sow.