Arminia Bielefeld left the relegation place for the time being with the first win at Eintracht Frankfurt in a decade and a half and extended the frustrating series of wins in Hesse in the new year.
East Westphalia celebrated a 2-0 (2-0) win at Eintracht on Friday evening at the start of the 20th matchday in the Bundesliga.
Patrick Wimmer gave the visitors the lead in the fifth minute with the fastest Arminia goal since returning to the top flight, before he played a spectacular set-up to score Alessandro Schöpf's goal 22 minutes later.
In the table, Bielefeld, unbeaten in five games, climbed to 14th place with 21 points.
The Frankfurter (28) missed the jump to the international ranks, they stay eighth at least for another night.
The Hessians didn't just imagine the beginning of the game like this. Again they conceded an early goal. The sixth this season in the first quarter of an hour. Coach Oliver Glasner's look at a tablet didn't help either: there was nothing to object to Wimmer's goal. Except that the people of Frankfurt had favored it themselves. On the left side of defense, they let the Bielefeld grant. When the ball landed at Wimmer after an ineffective attempt to clear it, the Austrian shot his third goal of the season. Kevin Trapp, who like Filip Kostic had returned to the starting XI after surviving a corona infection, had no chance.
The fact that Eintracht had significantly more play and ball possession played no role against very eager and combative Bielefeld. Apart from a long-range shot by Daichi Kamada (12th minute) and a huge chance by Jesper Lindström (16th), not much jumped out for Frankfurt. Instead, coach Frank Kramer's Bielefeld team proved to be efficiency experts after scoring the fastest goal since promotion and scored the second goal. Again Arminia came on the right side of the attack, only this time Wimmer did the preparatory work in an Austrian production. And how! Behind the supporting leg he pointed the ball in front of the Trapp goal, Schöpf pushed it with his chest over the line into the short corner. According to the Bundesliga, the 27-year-old was the most unsuccessful shooter in the upper house with 25 failed attempts.
The fact that the Kramer-Elf was able to go into the break with a two-goal lead was also thanks to keeper Stefan Ortega, who parried against Rafael Borré (35th) with a class reflex.
Even after the break, the Frankfurters could not buy anything from statistical advantages in the duel of the teams with the strongest runs in the league.
Significantly better pass rate – but still no goal.
Again Lindström missed a very good opportunity (56'), returning Kostic then only hit the side netting.
Ultimately, Bielefeld defended their lead until the final whistle and even had the chance to score the third goal through Florian Krüger (67th) and again Wimmer (72nd).