Eintracht Frankfurt

Last season’s semi-finalists Eintracht Frankfurt booked their spot in the group stages of the Europa League with a 3-0 win over RCSA in the second leg of their playoff round tie. Strasbourg came into this tie holding a narrow 1-0 advantage from the first leg, but this tie was an ill tempered one, with Ante Rebic and Dmitri Lienard both red carded. Numerous other players were yellow carded, and French newspaper L’Equipe weren’t too pleased with the performance of referee Orel Grinfeld, giving him just a 3/10

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This Filipe Kostic goal vs Strasbourg was a top notch free kick from the Frankfurt star that helped his side seal their spot in the group stages of the EL. The Kostic free kick against Strasbourg came in the 60th minute and put Frankfurt 2-0 ahead

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Last year’s Europa League semi-finalists Eintracht Frankfurt could be on the verge of elimination after a 1-0 loss in France to Strasbourg in the first leg of their play-off tie.

Here are the player ratings from French paper L’Equipe for the Strasbourg-Frankfurt game. Ante Rebic, who formed a fearsome trio last season with Luka Jovic and Sebastien Haller, only got a 3/10 here. L’Equipe also thought Mijat Gacinovic only did marginally better (4/10).

As an average the Strasbourg team rated 5.8/10, while Frankfurt got a 4.8/10

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