With a sovereign performance against the bottom of the Holstein Kiel, Eintracht Frankfurt in the Bundesliga in the Bundesliga underpinned its Champions League ambitions. Despite the 3-1 (2-0), the best Kiel was a debutant in the goal.
For Eintracht, Hugo Larsson scored 1-0 in the 18th minute, Tuta followed the second goal after a corner (37th). After the break, Can Uzun (60th) clarified the conditions with the 3: 0 early. Kiel’s keeper Thomas Dähne prevented further goals, who celebrated his Bundesliga debt for the sick Timon Weiner at the age of 31 and did an excellent job. Finn Porath could only shorten (74th).
Toppmöller praises his young team
Eintracht trainer Dino Toppmöller then said at the Sportschau microphone: “We had the most recent starting eleven of the season, but the way was very confident. But then we made life a little too difficult, we would have made it in the first half can do one or the other goal more. “
His colleague Marcel Rapp admitted: “We had a few decent ball relays and played some good attacks, but we were simply not mandatory. We did not consistently defend the first two goals conceded, but you can see that we can never give up and play proper football.”
Clear Frankfurt dominance and lots of train to the goal
Frankfurt had already broadcast enormous dominance from the kick -off, showed train to the gate in almost every attack campaign and completely pushed Kiel on the defensive. 15: 2 shots on goal were on the statistical slip for the break. It was almost alone to owe goalkeeper Dähne that everything was not decided during the change of sides.
Frankfurt’s top striker Ekitiké in particular did not get the guest defense under control. In the 14th minute, Dähne parried his shot out of the turn, shortly before the break the Frenchman even failed with a penalty on the goalkeeper of the “storks”.
Larsson meets the thigh for Eintracht
Dow was also powerless among the goals, with Larsson also earning a brilliant B grade because he finished Nathaniel Brown’s header work with his thigh after a shear strike. Brown himself almost hit it shortly afterwards, but failed on the right post (24th).
The second goal was overdue in this phase, but unhappy for Kiel: Nicolai Remberg had involuntarily extended a cross from Can Uzun to the five -meter space, then Porath also falsified the end of Tuta.
Uzun uses Kiels Zec
After the change, Frankfurt initially went into control mode, had only one shot in the first quarter of an hour after the restart – and Kiel drew courage. Marcel Rapp wanted to give impulses for the offensive in the 59th minute with the acceptance of Shuto Machino and Andu Kelati, but before they had the first touch of the ball, the topic was through: Winter newcomer David Zec played a pass through his own penalty space And directly into the feet of Uzun, which only needed to blow in.
They have shown several times this season that Kiel should not be copyed too early, in Leverkusen, a 2-2 made from an early 0: 2, most recently in Munich from a 0: 4 still a 3: 4. And again this time they rewarded themselves for their fighting spirit: Porath failed twice on the strongly reacting Kevin Trapp in front of his goal, only the third attempt was in it – according to the scene, Trapp was according to his foremen. However, the trouble was gone at the final whistle: Eintracht now has a five-point cushion on pursuer Leipzig and looks extremely stable in the fight for the premier class.
Frankfurt in Munich, Kiel against Leverkusen
For both teams there are now really big tasks: Frankfurt competes with Bayern Munich (February 23, 5.30 p.m.), Kiel welcomes Bayer 04 Leverkusen at home (22.02., 3.30 p.m.).