In the early morning of April 8, Beijing time, the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinals, The Bundesliga 9 Eintracht Frankfurt sat at home to draw 1-1 with visiting La Liga giants Barca. In this campaign, Eintracht Frankfurt deserves everyone's respect, in the passive situation of being sent off 1 person + only 34% possession rate, they actually shot Barca 18 feet, and the number of shots on goal was 18-7 to crush Barca, this data is really amazing!
Today, under Xavi, Barça are on the road to revival, counting the draw of this game, Barça have been unbeaten in 14 consecutive matches in all competitions, including stronger competitions such as Real Madrid, Atletico and Napoli. It has to be said that to be able to fight with such a Barca, Eintracht Frankfurt has been enough to get everyone's praise, and even, they suppressed Barca in the first half, scoring goals at the beginning of the second half, with Knauf's outer foot world wave, the Bundesliga 9th time 1-0 lead over Barca.
You know, Barca are unbeaten, La Liga has risen to 2nd, and Frankfurt is only 9th in the Bundesliga.
However, Barca boss Xavi uses soldiers like a god! In the 61st minute, Dembele and De Jong were replaced, and after 4 minutes, the score was equalized, Dembele directly instigated, De Jong and Ferrantores continuously collided with the wall, instantly tearing through the Frankfurt defense, And ferrantores contributed to Barca.
Next, in the 77th minute, Frankfurt was hit again, Japan international Daichi Kamada was robbed by Barca, Tuta counter-grabbed foul, the referee showed a yellow card, before, he already had a yellow card, 2 yellow to 1 red, was sent off, Frankfurt began to fight one less person, 10 to 11, or face Barca, which has already started, which is too difficult.
However, it is respectable that Frankfurt tactically matched, the three armies used their lives to save the draw, this season's European games do not have the rule of away goal advantage, so a draw means that the two teams are still at the same starting point, frankfurt will be in the next leg at Barca's home camp Nou to fight Barca.