Eintracht Frankfurt
·28 December 2024
Eintracht Frankfurt
·28 December 2024
Goals galore, a free-kick specialist, scoring milestones, a joint Europa League record, ever-presents and much more besides. From 1 to 2,029, we look back on the campaign so far.
1: Goooooal for Eintracht! Rasmus Kristensen, Nathaniel Brown, Can Uzun, Mo Dahoud and Igor Matanovic all opened their accounts for the Eagles.
3: Remarkably, Omar Marmoush scored magnificent free-kicks in three consecutive matches – against VfL Bochum, Slavia Praha and VfB Stuttgart.
6: Brown has registered three goals and three assists since the beginning of November, including his first goal for Eintracht – and first in the Bundesliga – against VfL Bochum. Only Bayer Leverkusen pair Florian Wirtz and Patrik Schick (nine) and Eagles team-mate Marmoush (seven) have been directly involved in more goals in that period.
7: Seven of Eintracht’s Bundesliga goals have come on the counter-attack – a league high. Four of those were scored by Marmoush, with Hugo Ekitiké netting the other three.
9: Nine players made their first-team debuts for Eintracht in the Bundesliga, Europa League or DFB Cup: Kaua Santos (who played in the fourth tier in 2023/24), Arthur Theate, Kristensen, Aurèle Amenda, Brown, Uzun, Dahoud, Oscar Højlund and Matanovic.
13: Eintracht’s goals were scored by 13 different players. Marmoush tops the scoring charts with 18 (13 in the Bundesliga, four in the Europa League and one in the DFB Cup), closely followed by Ekitiké on 11.
18: The Eagles’ 2-1 victory over FC Midtjylland on Matchday 5 of the league phase extended their unbeaten UEFA Europa League run to 18 matches (including extra time), matching the competition record set by English Premier League side Chelsea.
20: With 13 goals and seven assists, Marmoush has racked up more direct goal involvements than any other player in the Bundesliga so far this season. In Europe’s top five leagues, only fellow Egyptian Mo Salah has been directly involved in more goals (26).
24: Eintracht played 24 matches in the Bundesliga, DFB Cup and Europa League, including six in October and six in November.
25: The average age of the Eagles’ starting XI in the Bundesliga this season is 25 years and 200 days. Only VfL Wolfsburg (25 years, 85 days) and VfB Stuttgart (25 years, 93 days) have fielded younger teams this term.
27: Eintracht’s tally of 27 points after 15 Bundesliga games is their joint highest since the turn of the millennium, matching their points haul at this stage of the 2022/23 campaign. It leaves Dino Toppmöller’s side in third place.
64: Marmoush has registered more attempts – 64 – in Eintracht’s first 15 games than any other Bundesliga player. The Eagles have pulled the trigger 218 times overall, placing them fourth in the league on that measure.
75: Only Borussia Mönchengladbach’s Moritz Nicolas (76 per cent) has saved a higher percentage of shots after Matchday 15 than Eagles goalkeeper Kevin Trapp, who has a shot-to-save ratio of 75 per cent.
100 and 300: Mario Götze celebrated two personal milestones – and managed to find the net on both occasions. The 32-year-old opened the scoring on his 300th Bundesliga appearance at 1. FC Union Berlin before netting the only goal against SV Werder Bremen at Deutsche Bank Park – his 100th competitive outing for the Eagles.
2,029: Robin Koch played more minutes than any of his team-mates, racking up just over 2,000 across 23 appearances in all competitions. Like club colleague Marmoush, the centre-back has featured in all 15 Bundesliga games so far this season.