Bundesliga 2018/19

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Here we go again....another EL game, this time against Chelsea and yet another chance for my usual Eintracht Frankfurt propaganda post! Sorry if it is annoying...just love my team!

Another tifo across the whole stadium, this time the center piece was a handpainted banner showing all kind of Ultras Frankfurt stickers and associated groups like Bergamo, Leipzig and Mannheim. The banner took two weeks to paint and just looked amazing in terms of details.

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Atmosphere was great as well, however I think pretty much everyone was disappointed with Chelsea. Only 1600 or so made the trip over, they didnt even sell out their allocation.
I know that the EL has no importance for English fans, but its a ground they dont get to see every year so I would have expected them to show up in bigger numbers especially as Frankfurt is so easy to reach with the Airport just around the corner from our ground.

Hopefully we get to play in the CL next season and get up against City, so you lot can show them how its done! ;)

We played pretty well in the first 30 minutes and the roof got taken off when we scored the 1-0. Unfortunately Chelsea became much better in the second half, but at least we managed a draw. Got to see if we can get anything at the Bridge. At least we will have Ante Rebic back, who usually turns up for the important games.

What is really special this season in the bond between fans and team. I am usually someone who doesnt give a lot about players as they usually bugger off the second they get the chance to earn more money somewhere else, so I dont really care about their press statements where they mention how great it is to play for Frankfurt etc, but somehow this team feels different.

Some players and our coach even donated money to Ultras Frankfurt for the tifos (Ultras Frankfurt usually asks for donations from other fans only but obviously everyone is free to donate if they want to).
 
Surprised Chelsea didn't sell out. I assume half of them had booked to go to Lisbon after your QF first leg!
 
Some more details on the banner emerged:
Around 140 people worked on it, the thing had a size of 6200 squaremeter, weights 1.4 tons and did overall cost 100000 Euro.

Should give you an impression how much time, money and effort went into this.
 
Surprised Chelsea didn't sell out. I assume half of them had booked to go to Lisbon after your QF first leg!

Yeah that might be the case. Was really looking forward to a filled away section myself. Newcastle a couple of years ago didn't bring a lot of people over either.

Maybe our name is not attractive enough...
 
Yeah that might be the case. Was really looking forward to a filled away section myself. Newcastle a couple of years ago didn't bring a lot of people over either.

Maybe our name is not attractive enough...

A lot of factors come into it. Europa league isn’t appealing to English football fans. The regular Chelsea fans have probably been all around Europe by now, so I not selling out is nothing to be ashamed about. The final is in the far end of Europe too, so a good few would be saving up for that, if they got through.
 
Season is almost over, same as the title race.
Dortmund managed to bottle it with the last two games and handed Bayern the title on a silver platter.

Either 2 of Hannover, Nürnberg or Stuttgart will go down. Its just a matter of which club will have the chance to play the relegation playoffs against the 3rd placed team from Buli 2.

Cologne will most likely go up with Paderborn currently on second place and Union Berlin on the 3rd place. If Union win at Darmstadt today it would be a huge win and they will jump to second place which would secure direct promotion.

Hamburg on the other hand seems to lose ground in the last couple of games, so lets keep fingers crossed they rot in the second division for a couple more seasons.

Overall it will be nice to have Cologne back and Union in the Buli. Not a big fan of Paderborn as they do not have a big ground, dont bring a lot of fans etc. Made worse by the fact that we will once again lose clubs like Hannover, Nürnberg or Stuttgart who have a big fanbase.

1st tier starts to look really shitty with the likes of Wolfsburg, Leverkusen, Hoffenheim, Mainz, Augsburg, Leipzig etc. Add Paderborn to the mix and you will have half empty grounds/away sections the majority of games.
 
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Leverkusen 6-Frankfurt 1.

After 36 minutes.

After Leverkusen's sixth went in, Frankfurt immediately made a double sub.
 
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