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Eintracht Frankfurt vs. RB Leipzig: How do they stack up?

Eintracht Frankfurt and RB Leipzig are well placed to join Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen in next season's UEFA Champions League, but have a handful of teams waiting for them to slip up during the run-in. bundesliga.com previews a top-four clash of huge significance as third prepares to host fourth...

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At the time of their last meeting, Frankfurt were level on points with Leipzig who, then under Marco Rose’s stewardship, sat in fourth place. Although Leipzig won the day to leapfrog Dino Toppmöller's Eintracht into third, they're currently back in fourth, three points behind the Eagles and only a point clear of a chasing pack headed by Freiburg.

A worrying run of two wins from 11 had threatened to derail Die Roten Bullen's season entirely but, while it cost Rose his job, seven points from three league games under interim boss Zsolt Lőw has put Champions League qualification back in their own hands with four rounds of fixtures remaining.

While Leipzig briefly dropped to sixth during their malaise, Frankfurt managed to maintain their place in the top four as they won just once in seven games between Matchdays 19 and 26, accumulating three draws and three defeats either side of a lone victory over bottom side Holstein Kiel.

Losing top scorer Omar Marmoush to Manchester City during the winter transfer window didn't help, but Eintracht have negotiated the mid-season reshuffle admirably. Hugo Ekitiké has filled the Marmoush void - the former Paris Saint-Germain youngster extending his tally to 14 Bundesliga goals and five assists - while younger players like Jean-Mattéo Bahoya have stepped up to put Frankfurt on the brink of only their second ever campaign of Champions League football.

Frankfurt have lost just four times in the league in 2025 whilst winning seven and drawing four - a sequence of results not too dissimilar to Leipzig's five victories, seven draws and three defeats in that time. Although the Eagles fell 2-1 to Eintracht in the reverse fixture and 3-0 in the DFB Cup last 16, they'll be quietly confident of averting an unwanted season treble against a team whose star trio of Xavi, Loïs Openda and Benjamin Šeško have contributed a collective 45 goal involvements so far this term.

Frankfurt have kept three clean sheets in their last five games and welcomed first-choice goalkeeper Kevin Trapp back into the fold for the goalless draw at Augsburg on Matchday 30. Eintracht are also averaging a healthy 1.73 points per game under 44-year-old Toppmöller in 2024/25 - the ex-Bayern assistant's second full campaign in charge.

Lőw's mean return stands at an even rosier 2.33, albeit measured over just three matches in what is the first solo coaching role of his senior career. As an indication of his tactical acumen, the Hungarian, 45, previously worked under Thomas Tuchel at Bayern, just as Toppmöller had served as Julian Nagelsmann's able deputy before him.

With just three points between them and four games of the season remaining, the stage is set for another thrilling encounter between Frankfurt and Leipzig. They'll both be aiming for a strong end to a season in which both may feel they could have achieved more, but must now focus on keeping Freiburg & Co. at bay in the nail-biting chase for the Bundesliga's final two Champions League places.

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