Barcelona should beat Eintracht Frankfurt at the Camp Nou one week from now on the off chance that they are to arrive at the Europa League semi-finals after the German side held them 1-1 at home.
Match Report
Oliver Glasner's group are 10th in the Bundesliga yet with 52,000 home allies behind them they went on against the opposition top choices and were sad not to hang on.
Xavi's Barcelona were poor by late norms however Ferran Torres scored his seventh goal for them since participating in January to even out. Indeed, even Eintracht Frankfurt going down to 10 men couldn't energize Barcelona who resembled the group that had beaten Napoli and Galatasaray away such a long ways in this opposition.
Eintracht Frankfurt had attracted their past four games all contests and Barcelona had attracted first legs against Napoli and Galatasaray past rounds - this time essentially they will enjoy home benefit in the subsequent leg.
They experienced a mishap halfway through the main half when Gerard Pique tottered off holding his left crotch. Forebearing Lenglet hit on accomplice Eric Garcia.
Their most obvious opportunity came when Busquets cut the ball over the top to Jordi Alba who gestured it down for Pedri. The midfielder was extending and couldn't connect and the banner was up at any rate.
For Eintracht Frankfurt Filip Kostic was looking hazardous and he was brought somewhere near Ronald Araujo working as right-back. He took the free-kick yet it failed miserably.
In any case, when his next cross was just parried by Marc Andre ter Stegen, Sergio Busquets was pronounced to have cut down Rafael Santos.
At the point when the Serbian ref Sr?an Jovanovic went across to the screen to audit the occurrence he saw that Busquets had jabbed the ball away prior to connecting with the Santos and he overruled his choice.
The two sides were disappointed at neglecting to get themselves in front in a rough first half and an irritated Kostic was reserved for kicking he ball at Araujo.
Eintracht's disappointment finished three minutes after the restart and in some style. Ansgar Knauff presented to Eric Garcia's leeway down with his left foot on the edge of the area and terminated through the packed region past Ter Stegen with his right.
Barça attempted to even out with Adama Traore crossing from the right yet it was Pedri and Gavi getting their heads to the ball nearby and neither connected.
Adama was supplanted by Ousmane Dembele, with Frenkie de Jong coming on for Gavi. Ferran Torres was close to go close however to call it 'close' would be caring. He jumped astutely into space in the space however at that point skied his shot. Much better was to come on 66 minutes and the two substitutes were involved as Torres evened out.
Dembele played the ball in from the right and De Jong and Torres two times traded elapses before Torres could complete past Kevin Trapp.
Eintracht Frankfurt were all the while being thundered on however with 13 minutes left they were diminished to 10 men when Tuta got a second yellow for a rough test on Pedri. The home side were not dissuaded and Obite Ndicka hauled the ball into space and shot only wide on the turn.
Barcelona constrained a late corner and Dembele put it on Lenglet's head yet he looked it wide. They merited no more and should be better in seven days to get done with the task.
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