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Frankfurt / Main (dpa) - Bayer Leverkusen missed the chance of the temporary jump to the top of the table with the 1: 2 (1: 1) defeat at Eintracht Frankfurt.
After Nadiem Amiri took the lead (10th minute), Amin Younes (22nd) and Edmond Tapsoba (54th) made it their own for the second successive victory for Hessen.
For the Werkself it was the first away defeat of the season in the Bundesliga and only the second lost game of the season so far.
With a win, Leverkusen would have overtaken front runners FC Bayern Munich, who will receive FSV Mainz 05 on Sunday, for at least one day.
In the DFB Cup, Bayer has the chance of revenge against Frankfurt on January 12th.
The Frankfurt team are still striving for the European Cup places and have shown that they can stand up to Bayer 04 even without the support of the fans.
After all, they had won the last two home games against the Rhinelander.
In the 71st league duel, the hosts had to cope with the 0-1 early on.
The hit was initiated by a small stroke of genius by Florian Wirtz, who played the ball with a lifter to Amiri.
The German national player prevailed against Erik Durm and shot a heel through the legs of Eintracht goalkeeper Kevin Trapp.
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After that, the Hessians' starting eleven, which had changed to three positions compared to the victorious game at FC Augsburg (2-0), got stronger and stronger and was equalized after a good 20 minutes by Younes, who was preferred to Aymen Barkok.
After a clever pass from Djibril Sow, he scored 1: 1 with a shot from 18 meters.
It was only the second Bundesliga goal for Younes: In February 2013 he scored for Borussia Mönchengladbach for the first time.
After that, Eintracht was more determined to move forward than Leverkusen, who were still unbeaten away this season, and had an increase in chances.
The best chance before the break was again Younes (39th), who failed to hit the ball properly after a pass from the imaginative Daichi Kamada and almost hit the goal from the penalty spot.
Even after the break, the Frankfurters stayed on the trigger, did not allow much in front of their own goal, continued pressure and came to 2: 1.
With the help of the opponent in the 54th minute: First Mitchell Weiser, who had to play as a substitute for Wendell and Daley Sinkgraven who tested positive for the coronavirus on the left defensive position, was not good when Kamada crossed, then Tapsoba maneuvered the ball into it own gate.
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The Japanese could have increased it to 3-1 in the 72nd minute, but his volley from ten meters missed the right post.
Eintracht was lucky when defense chief Martin Hinteregger (82nd) steered the ball against the crossbar of his own goal.
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