Younes Ebnoutalib holds his injured knee.

As of: January 14, 2026 10:27 p.m

As soon as he gets there, he has to sit out again: Younes Ebnoutalib suffered an inner ligament injury in the defeat in Stuttgart. He will be missing from Eintracht Frankfurt for weeks.

Eintracht Frankfurt will be without attacker Younes Ebnoutalib for weeks. As the Hessian Bundesliga club announced on Wednesday, the new signing, who moved from SV Elversberg to Main in the winter, has joined Eintracht’s 2-3 defeat suffered an injury to the medial ligament in his knee in Stuttgart. The injury should be treated conservatively.

Ebnoutalib had to leave the pitch after just 20 minutes at VfB. Immediately after the game, coach Dino Toppmöller said on the ARD microphone: “It’s a very bitter pill for us.” Jean-Mattéo Bahoya came on for the striker. In his first appearance for Eintracht, the Frankfurt-born Ebnoutalib was there 3:3 against Dortmund scored a direct hit.

Striker need at Eintracht

The 22-year-old is the third attacker missing from Hessen due to an injury, alongside Jonathan Burkardt (calf injury) and Michy Batshuayi (fractured metatarsal). Elye Wahi also left the SGE on loan to Nice in the winter.

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