Eintracht Frankfurt and Rangers clash at Seville's Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán in the 2021/22 Uefa Europa League last hoping to individually turn into the principal victors of the opposition from Germany and Scotland.
The two clubs are each offering to win a second European prize. Officers lifted the European Cup Winners' Cup in1972, beating Dynamo Moscow 3-2 in the last in Barcelona, and Frankfurt guaranteed the Uefa Cup in 1980 thanks to an away goals accomplishment against individual Bundesliga club Borussia Mönchengladbach (2-3 a, 1-0 h).
While Eintracht have previously won two times this season in Spain, where they have never lost in five visits, Rangers have wiped out two German clubs enroute to the last.
Eintracht started off their 2021/22 European mission in the Uefa Europa League bunch stage and go into the last undefeated after 12 matches. They finished off Group D in the pre-winter with 12 points in front of Olympiacos, Fenerbahçe and Antwerp to qualify straightforwardly for the round of 16, where they disposed of Real Betis after additional time (2-1 a, 1-1 h). They then guaranteed one more Spanish scalp in the quarterfinal, taking out Barcelona with a paramount 3-2 triumph in the Camp Nou following another 1-1 attract Frankfurt, prior to winning both elimination round legs against West Ham United(2-1 a, 1-0 h).
Officers' 19-match 2021/22 European mission started in the Uefa Champions League third qualifying round , however they spent the fall in Uefa Europa League Group A, where they wrapped as sprinters up to Lyon with a game in excess in front of Sparta Praha and Brøndby. They then, at that point, wiped out Borussia Dortmund 6-4 on total in the knockout round end of the season games (4-2 a, 2-2 h) and Crvena zvezda 4-2 in the round of 16 (3-0 h, 1-2 a) preceding toppling 1-0away losses in both the quarterfinal, against Braga, and the elimination round, against Leipzig, with mixing second-leg 3-1wins at Ibrox.
The clubs have been matched together once beforehand in European contest, Frankfurt extensively beating Rangers in the elimination round of the 1959/60 European Cup when they followed a 6-1 home win with a 6-3second-leg triumph at Ibrox, Alfred Pfaff scoring two times in the two games. Paul Osswald's side got back to Glasgow for the last, which they lost 7-3 at Hampden Park to Real Madrid.
Frankfurt's just other Uefa challenge with Scottish resistance was against Aberdeen in the first round of their victorious 1979/80 Uefa Cup crusade - a tie they won 2-1 on total when a 1-0 home win followed a 1-1 attract Glasgow. Their general record against Scottish groups in Uefa knockout ties is consequently W2 L0.
Interestingly, this is Rangers' 52nd Uefa match against German resistance - by a wide margin the biggest number they have played against a solitary country. Their record in the past 51 is W18 D15 L18 and remembers a loss for their main other last against a German club, Bayern München beating them 1-0 after additional time in the 1967 European Cup Winners' Cup decider in Nuremberg. The Scottish side's record in knockout ties against German rivals is nowW10 L11 on account of total triumphs this season against both Dortmund and Leipzig.
Eintracht
Having been missing from Europe in 2020/21, Eintracht returned for a third Uefa Europa League bunch stage crusade in four seasons - and fourth altogether - on account of their fifth-set finish in the Bundesliga. The previous summer they supplanted mentor Adi Hütter with another Austrian, Oliver Glasner, who was accountable for fourth-put Wolfsburg last term.
Eintracht have equipped for the Uefa Europa League knockout stage on all of their four gathering stage appearances, their past best mission in 2018/19 completion in the elimination rounds, when they lost a penalty shoot-out to possible champs Chelsea. They won every one of the six of their gathering games that season - the main German club ever to accomplish the accomplishment - yet oversaw only three this term, two against Olympiacos (3-1 h, 2-1 a) and one against Antwerp (1-0 a), notwithstanding three draws - 2-2 at home to Antwerp and 1-1 in the two games against Fenerbahçe. They have kept up with their unbeaten record in the six knockout games against Betis, Barcelona and West Ham (W4 D2).
Glasner's side have won five of their six Uefa Europa League matches outside Frankfurt this season, all by a one goal edge, the exemption that 1-1 draw at Fenerbahçe on Matchday 6.
Eintracht are unbeaten in Spain, winning four of their five matches there, remembering 2-1 for Seville - at the Estadio Benito Villamarín - against Betis in this season's round of 16.
Undefeated heroes of Scotland in 2020/21 as they asserted a record-expanding 55th homegrown association title , Rangers additionally played 13 matches in the Uefa Europa League, advancing from the subsequent passing round to the round of 16, where their run was finished by Slavia Praha (1-1 a, 0-2 h).
Officers got back to the Uefa Champions League without precedent for 10 years this term, yet they lost both third qualifying round legs 2-1 to Malmö and moved to the Uefa Europa League end of the season games, where they edged past Alashkert to arrive at the gathering stage for the fourth progressive season.
In spite of the fact that they lost their initial two gathering games - against Lyon (0-2 h) and Sparta (0-1 a) - they stayed unbeaten from there on, taking four points off Brøndby(2-0 h, 1-1 a) and securing runner up with a 2-0 triumph over Sparta at Ibrox on Matchday 5 in their most memorable match under new supervisor Giovanni van Bronckhorst, who had supplanted Steven Gerrard. The Dutchman hence guided the Gers past Dortmund, Crvena zvezda, Braga and Leipzig.
This is Rangers' most memorable appearance in the Uefa Europa League last, their three past interests in the opposition's knockout stage having all stopped in the last 16.
Having gone through their 2020/21 European mission without a solitary loss outside Glasgow (W5 D2), Rangers neglected to record a success on their mainland voyages this term (D3 L2) until that 4-2 triumph in Dortmund. They have lost every one of the three games from Ibrox since - in Belgrade, Braga and Leipzig.
That European Cup Winners' Cup last win in Barcelona against Dynamo Moscow quite a while back remains Rangers just win on Spanish soil in Uefa rivalry. Their 12 away games in the nation have yielded nine losses and three draws, albeit one of those draws came on their last visit, 2-2 against Villarreal on Match day 1 of the 2018/19UEFA Europa League.
Their two past visits to Seville have both brought routs - 0-2 against Sevilla in the first round of the 1962/63 European Cup Winners' Cup, however Rangers won the tie 4-2 on total, and 0-1 against similar rivals at the Estadio Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán in the 2009/10 Uefa Champions League bunch stage.
Past Uefa finals
Eintracht (W1 L1)
1960 European Cup 3-7 v Real Madrid
1980 Uefa Cup 3-3 agg (won on away goals) v Borussia Mönchengladbach Rangers (W1 L3)
1961 European Cup Winners' Cup 1-4 agg v Fiorentina1967 European Cup Winners' Cup 0-1 v Bayern München (aet)
1972 European Cup Winners' Cup 3-2 v Dynamo Moscow2008 Uefa Cup 0-2 v Zenit
Uefa Europa League last concentration
This is the thirteenth Uefa Europa League last. The past 12 have yielded 36 goals at a normal of three for each game. The greatest winning edge is three goals - 4-1 by Chelsea against Arsenal in 2018/19 and 3-0 by Atlético de Madrid against both Athletic Club (2012) and Marseille (2018). The largest number of goals scored in the installation is five - Sevilla's 3-2 triumph over Dnipro in 2015, that 4-1 win for Chelsea in 2019, and another 3-2 accomplishment for Sevilla in2019/20 against Inter.
Sevilla have won every one of the four of their Uefa Europa League finals, the 2019/20 triumph taking them in front of Atlético, who additionally brag an ideal finals record of three out of three.
There have been nine past Uefa Europa League finalists from Spain, including last season's champs Villarreal and 2012 other participants Athletic, and seven from England, Chelsea winning two times (2013, 2019), Manchester United winning once (2017) and losing once (2021), with Fulham (2010), Liverpool (2016) and Arsenal (2019) all enduring loss on their only appearance.
Eintracht and Rangers are the seventeenth and eighteenth various clubs to have arrived at the Uefa Europa League last - and either club would be only the seventh to win the opposition. Just three nations - Spain (eight successes), England (three)and Portugal (one) - have given past victors.
This is the initial occasion when a club from Germany or Scotland have arrived at the Uefa Europa League last. They are the eighth and ninth countries addressed in the apparatus.
This is the principal last since the 2017 installation between Manchester United and Ajax to include two first-time finalists - and just the second since Chelsea-Benfica in 2013.
In 2018/19 Chelsea turned into the main Uefa Europa League champs to go through the season undefeated (W12 D3). Villarreal copied that accomplishment last season (W11 D3), and Eintracht will likewise guarantee that differentiation would it be advisable for them they win in Seville. Officers have proactively lost five Uefa Europa League games this term - two a bigger number of than any past champs. To be sure, just Sevilla, with three losses in 2013/14, have lost more than two.
There has never been a shipping off in a Uefa Europa League last.
The main last own goal was scored by Inter's Romelu Lukaku to give Sevilla triumph in 2019/20.
Three penalties have been granted in the Uefa Europa League last, all changed over - by Óscar Cardozo for Benfica against Chelsea in 2013, Eden Hazard for Chelsea against Arsenal in 2019, and Lukaku for Inter against Sevilla in 2020.
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