Frankfurt 3 Burghausen 0 The final score was a fair relection on the effort put in by Frankfurt since the winter break. A tentative start showed that Burghausen were not here just to make up the numbers. It was nervous stuff with Frankfurt needing three points to sure of going up. Burghausen had a couple of half-hearted chances and Van Lent spurned a couple for Frankfurt at the other end. On the quarter hour Cha made a powerful crossfield run that split open the visitors’ defence. He slid the ball to Benjamin Köhler who ran in and rifled home from 10 metres.
This took the fight out of Burghausen. Their players started to hit the deck with alarming regularity. They didn’t look like they had trained all week. Indeed, they had all their subsititutes used up on 55 minutes.
The second half started pretty much the same as the first, with Eintracht looking to wrap up the points and Burghausen looking not to be embarrassed. They came close a couple of times in the early exchanges and Cha had a good effort blocked.
On 65 minutes Frankfurt got a free for an innocuous looking foul about 25 metres out. Meier beat the wall and gave the Wacker keeper no chance. That was the decisive strike and Frankfurt had merely to play out the remaining 25 minutes to gain promotion.
The celebrations of Frankfurt supporters and the players were quickly dampened by the sudden appearance of hundreds of riot police in full battle dress. Whose idea was that?
On the pitch Cimen, Beierle and Weissenberger were given a run out. Fittingly, Beierle profitted from a great run by Köhler to slot home Frankfurt’s last goal in the second division. It was the last real kick of the game. It should have been the cue for unbounded celebration. Instead the extremely aggressive stewarding and policing lead to violent scenes on the terrace behind the goal.
In order to survive next season Frankfurt will need to strengthen their squad of players. They will also need to appoint an event manager who has, at the very least, a vague idea of how to run a football match. On yesterday’s evidence FIFA should look long and hard at Frankfurt as a host for World Cup games.
The final score was a fair relection on the effort put in by Frankfurt since the winter break. A tentative start showed that Burghausen were not here just to make up the numbers. It was nervous stuff with Frankfurt needing three points to sure of going up. Burghausen had a couple of half-hearted chances and Van Lent spurned a couple for Frankfurt at the other end. On the quarter hour Cha made a powerful crossfield run that split open the visitors’ defence. He slid the ball to Benjamin Köhler who ran in and rifled home from 10 metres.
This took the fight out of Burghausen. Their players started to hit the deck with alarming regularity. They didn’t look like they had trained all week. Indeed, they had all their subsititutes used up on 55 minutes.
The second half started pretty much the same as the first, with Eintracht looking to wrap up the points and Burghausen looking not to be embarrassed. They came close a couple of times in the early exchanges and Cha had a good effort blocked.
On 65 minutes Frankfurt got a free for an innocuous looking foul about 25 metres out. Meier beat the wall and gave the Wacker keeper no chance. That was the decisive strike and Frankfurt had merely to play out the remaining 25 minutes to gain promotion.
The celebrations of Frankfurt supporters and the players were quickly dampened by the sudden appearance of hundreds of riot police in full battle dress. Whose idea was that?
On the pitch Cimen, Beierle and Weissenberger were given a run out. Fittingly, Beierle profitted from a great run by Köhler to slot home Frankfurt’s last goal in the second division. It was the last real kick of the game. It should have been the cue for unbounded celebration. Instead the extremely aggressive stewarding and policing lead to violent scenes on the terrace behind the goal.
In order to survive next season Frankfurt will need to strengthen their squad of players. They will also need to appoint an event manager who has, at the very least, a vague idea of how to run a football match. On yesterday’s evidence FIFA should look long and hard at Frankfurt as a host for World Cup games.