Freiburg received their first home defeat in the new stadium.
Frankfurt, on the other hand, celebrated another important success with the 2-0 win.
Freiburg - As the first Freiburg home conqueror, Oliver Glasner urged humility despite the important away win.
"We have to stay humble, many things were very good, but we still have a lot of work to do," said the Eintracht Frankfurt coach after the 2-0 (2-0) at SC Freiburg on Sunday.
With the third competitive game win in a row, Frankfurt has further increased its lead over the relegation zone of the Bundesliga.
The Hessians are now five points ahead of the relegation rank.
And they go with self-confidence in the Europa League on Thursday, where they will win the group against Antwerp.
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Jesper Lindström (34th minute) and Filip Kostic (43rd) scored the goals for the guests in front of 32,500 spectators in the Europa-Park Stadium, making Freiburg's first home defeat of the season perfect.
Freiburg suffered their second defeat of the season and the first in the new stadium two weeks after the 2-1 defeat at Bayern Munich.
They remain third in the table, but are now five points behind second-placed Borussia Dortmund.
"We also had chances, but they didn't go in, then Frankfurt was lucky, we didn't and then you lose a game like that," said Freiburg coach Christian Streich, as usual, calmly.
In a good-class game with chances on both sides, Freiburg's Vincenzo Grifo created a special scene when he immediately made it clear after an alleged foul on him in the penalty area (55th) that it wasn’t. “I didn't feel like he hit me. We want to stay fair, even if it would have helped, ”said Grifo at DAZN. Streich had immediately seen from outside that it was not a 911. "That was nothing and that's right, that Vincenzo communicates it that way, I think that's good."
Both teams started briskly and disturbed their opponents early in their half. A bad bad pass by Freiburg's Woo-yeong Jeong had no consequences (10th), shortly afterwards the busy Lindström SC keeper Mark Flekken checked from an acute angle (11th). It took the hosts a good quarter of an hour before they created a real goal danger - but then twice in a few minutes. First Frankfurt goalkeeper Kevin Trapp was challenged with a low shot by Lucas Höler (19th), then with a cross from Vincenzo Grifo, which had become longer and longer (25th).
Eintracht needed a bit of luck to take the lead in the game, which had been balanced until then. Before the 1-0 win by Lindström, the first competitive goal of the newcomer in the shirt of Hessen, opponent Lukas Kübler involuntarily spiked the ball into the Dane's barrel. When Kostic made it 2-0, a Serbian free kick from the right half-field flew over all players in the penalty area, hit the ground and then hit the left inner post into the net.
At the second half, Streich switched his system and back from a back three to four back. U21 international striker Kevin Schade came on for defender Nico Schlotterbeck, whose use had been questionable due to muscular problems beforehand. And Schade was right in the game: First, the 19-year-old took out two free kicks, of which Nicolas Höfler headed one on the post (51st). Then he missed a good chance to hit the next goal himself (55th).
There was now a lot of music in play on both sides: A shot by Grifo was just scratched off the line by the Frankfurt team (56th), while Lindström (57th) and Daichi Kamada (58th) missed good opportunities for Eintracht.
The Freiburg team also showed great morale in the closing stages, but ultimately missed the setting of a nine-year-old club record due to the defeat: they have only managed ten Bundesliga home games without defeat in a row in 2012 so far.
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