Europa League
Frankfurt fetches happy draws in London
Updated on April 10th, 2025 – 10:56 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Tottenham Hotspur and Eintracht Frankfurt offered a racy duel. Everything is now open for the second leg.
Bundesliga club Eintracht Frankfurt has developed a promising chance of the semi -finals in the Europa League with a courageous performance. The European Cup experts came to a 1-1 (1: 1) in the first leg at Tottenham Hotspur and have the opportunity to move into the round of the last four for the third time after 2019 and 2022.
Hugo Ekitiké (6th) initially had the Frankfurter dreamed of victory with an early longing shot, but Pedro Porro (26th) equalized with a chopping goal in the atmospheric Tottenham stage. Thanks to its combative power, in which the crossbar also helped twice, the SGE still hopes for the next furious run. In 2022, the last super series in the title win of Seville was grown.
For Toppmöller, the quarter -finals were already “something special. We deserved it, we are rightly so here,” he had confidently explained before kick -off at RTL. He expected a similar duel to Ajax Amsterdam in the round of 16: “This is a top offensive football. We have to get to our top level, if we can do it, we have a chance.”
Toppmöller’s team struck very early. After a ball win from Ellyes Skhiri, Ekitiké got a seat on the grand piano, pulled inside and sank the ball from a good 20 meters in the bottom right. The hosts, in the Premier League as table-14. Far behind their own expectations, tried to check the game – and also scored worth seeing. Porro outwitted Kaua Santos after a sharp cross with a hoe.
Both teams set high speed and fast advances in the attack, there was hardly a scanning. The Spurs looked more determined without creating many big opportunities. The best opportunity for Frankfurt had Ekitiké again seconds before the break with a shot that was too unplaced.
After the change of sides, Eintracht got swimming. Lucas Bergvall (55.) With his beam from the distance, just hit the crossbar as Rodrigo Bentancur shortly afterwards. But Frankfurt increasingly caused relief, Jean-Mattéo Bahoya did not really hit the ball in good position (63.).