Second league success in a row
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RB Leipzig won the top Bundesliga game against Eintracht Frankfurt. Thanks to a 2:1 (1:1), Leipzig drew level on points with third-placed Frankfurt. In the next top game on Friday at FC Bayern, RB can continue to work its way towards the league leaders from Munich, who have six points more after 14 match days. Champions Bayer Leverkusen are second, four points behind (the Bundesliga table).
With their goals, Benjamin Sesko (19th minute) and Loïs Openda (51st) ensured that Leipzig were able to celebrate, as they did last time, 3-0 in the DFB Cup round of 16 against Frankfurt. While RB celebrated its third win in the league and the cup in a row, Frankfurt has been without a win in four competitive games. Nathaniel Brown (40′) couldn’t do more than make it 1-1.
Xaver Schlager made his starting eleven comeback for the Saxons after 226 days. National player David Raum was back in the squad for the first time. Eintracht coach Dino Toppmöller made five changes after the 2-3 win in Lyon, including Hugo Larsson returning to the starting line-up after his injury.
“I think we did a lot better than last week in the cup,” said Eintracht goalkeeper Kevin Trapp: “We tried, but perhaps we allowed one or two chances too many.” RB professional Christoph Baumgartner said : “It was a hard piece of work”. In the end, the Frankfurters were “very oppressive again”.
RB Leipzig again against Wolfsburg in the DFB Cup
Before the game, RB was given a home game in the quarter-finals in the DFB Cup draw, but long-term opponents VfL Wolfsburg are not necessarily considered dreamless. “We have to do a lot of things much better against Wolves than we did last time, be it in the DFB Cup or in the Bundesliga,” said RB Sport managing director Marcel Schäfer after the recent 5-1 defeat in the league against his former club. In the previous season, the Saxons failed in the second round of the cup after a 0-1 defeat in Wolfsburg.