{"id":7036,"date":"2022-04-14T22:35:30","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:35:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7036"},"modified":"2022-04-14T22:35:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-14T22:35:30","slug":"europa-frankfurt-stun-barcelona-to-reach-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=7036","title":{"rendered":"Europa: Frankfurt Stun Barcelona To Reach Semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Eintracht Frankfurt stunned Barcelona with a dramatic victory at the Nou Camp to set up a Europa League semi-final against West Ham.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After the first leg had finished 1-1, the German side stormed into a 3-0 lead in the second and looked in control before two late goals for Barcelona.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Filip Kostic\u2019s penalty and Rafael Borre\u2019s superb strike were followed by another for Kostic after the break.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But Sergio Busquets\u2019 effort and Memphis Depay\u2019s penalty set up a tense finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Frankfurt defender Evan Ndicka was also sent off for a second yellow card for what looked a soft foul on Luuk de Jong for the spot-kick, with nine minutes added on following a VAR malfunction.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But Frankfurt, who sit ninth in the Bundesliga and won this competition in its previous guise in 1980, saw out a memorable victory to the delight of their almost 30,000 travelling fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Barcelona, on a superb run since the arrival of Xavi, did not know how to cope with the Bundesliga outfit\u2019s clinical counter-attacks and Frankfurt could have had more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Kostic slotted the first from the spot following a foul by Eric Garcia but the goal of the game came from Borre, who thundered a strike into the roof of the net from distance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The hosts had chances of their own and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang headed over in the first half before failing to connect with Ousmane Dembele\u2019s low cross in the second.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Busquets saw an initial effort ruled out for offside in added time before sparking a dramatic finish with a well-taken goal, but the hosts ran out of time after Depay\u2019s penalty just crept over the line.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It means Frankfurt can look forward to a semi-final against David Moyes\u2019 Hammers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eintracht Frankfurt stunned Barcelona with a dramatic victory at the Nou Camp to set up a Europa League semi-final against West Ham. After the first leg had finished 1-1, the German side stormed into a 3-0 lead in the second and looked in control before two late goals for Barcelona. Filip Kostic\u2019s penalty and Rafael [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7037,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[588,4198,4199,4200],"class_list":["post-7036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-barcelona","tag-europa","tag-frankfurt","tag-semi-finals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7038,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7036\/revisions\/7038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}