Eintracht had won three straight league games, yet they have won just three of 10 since (3W-3D-4L). With Marmoush, they were the 3rd-best attacking side in the Bundesliga (42 goals in 18 games. Without him,

Still the 21-year-old between the Eintracht Frankfurt posts was hardly the only reason that the visitors were bouncing with their supporters at the final whistle. They will return to Hesse knowing that they are in the ascendancy in the tie but that that could so easily have been whisked away from them.