{"id":36342,"date":"2026-05-09T11:27:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/36342\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:27:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T11:27:39","slug":"frankfurt-overtaken-by-dortmund-and-watches-european-dreams-fade-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/36342\/","title":{"rendered":"Frankfurt overtaken by Dortmund and watches European dreams fade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DORTMUND, Germany (AP) \u2014 Eintracht Frankfurt\u2019s hopes of securing European football next season were dealt a potentially fatal blow when it gave up an early lead and lost at Borussia Dortmund 3-2 in the Bundesliga on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Young striker Can Uzun silenced the home crowd with less than two minutes gone when he put the visitor ahead after excellent work inside the box from Mahmoud Dahoud.<\/p>\n<p>However, Dortmund scored twice on the eve of halftime to take control.<\/p>\n<p>Serhou Guirassy\u2019s superb finish from a Julian Ryerson cross levelled the score after 42 minutes and Nico Schlotterbeck put Dortmund ahead in first-half stoppage time.<\/p>\n<p>Samuele In\u00e1cio made it 3-1 with his first goal for the club, when he volleyed in a cross from Max Beier.<\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Burkardt got one back for Frankfurt three minutes from time but it was too late.<\/p>\n<p>With Bayern Munich already crowned champion and Dortmund having secured one of the four guaranteed Champions League spots, the home side had little to play for.<\/p>\n<p>However, the win guaranteed it second place in the Bundesliga, taking it out of reach of Leipzig.<\/p>\n<p>The result, though, was a sore one for Frankfurt, one of three teams in with a chance of seventh place and the one available Conference League playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>The loss handed the momentum to Freiburg, which can guarantee seventh with a win at Hamburg on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Freiburg has 44 points and Eintracht has 43 having played a game more.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>APsoccer: <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DORTMUND, Germany (AP) \u2014 Eintracht Frankfurt\u2019s hopes of securing European football next season were dealt a potentially fatal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36343,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1915,23826,23828,15,23824,23827,23829,23830,23823,23825,3765,1595],"class_list":{"0":"post-36342","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-europe","8":"tag-borussia-dortmund","9":"tag-dortmund","10":"tag-eintracht-frankfurt","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-jonathan-burkardt","13":"tag-julian-ryerson","14":"tag-mahmoud-dahoud","15":"tag-max-beier","16":"tag-nico-schlotterbeck","17":"tag-samuele-incio","18":"tag-soccer","19":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/europe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}