The footballers of Eintracht Frankfurt have to worry about the champions of the Champions League league. The team of coach Niko Arnautis was defeated by the Spanish runner -up Real Madrid in front of a home crowd with 1: 2 (1: 2). Before the second leg in Spain on September 18 (8 p.m.), the Bundesliga club is now under pressure.
“I think I saw that we were a bit nervous, but we played a good game for the most part,” said captain Laura Freiegel in the club TV: “If that doesn’t give us courage today, I don’t know what else”, the “motivation remains high, we want to win the second game”.
Nicole Anyomi (45.) met for the Frankfurters and thus held the hopes of participating in the league, for which Bayern Munich and VfL Wolfsburg had qualified directly. Filippa Angeldahl (13th) and Signe Bruun (35th) scored the goals for the royal, with national player Sara Däbritz and the former DFB keeper Merle Frohms in the starting eleven.
After the successful Bundesliga start against the SGS Essen (5-0), the Frankfurt women had gone with confidence in the duel with the Spaniards who had a mixed start of the season. But in the stadium on the Brentanobad, Real managed to score the lead in the middle of a good phase of the hosts.
In the event of a push of Madrid, Eintracht defender Amanda Ilestedt played the ball in a clarification attempt directly in front of the feet of Linda Caicedo, who only hit the latte. The margin of Angeldahl was sitting.
Frankfurt caught quickly after the early setback, but real was efficient and increased after a corner through Bruun. Anyomi brought the Hessians back into play, in the final phase they first put pressure on – but without success.