Tottenham 1-1 Eintracht Frankfurt: Europa League quarter-final, first leg – as it happened (2025)

That’s all from me. Here’s some bonus reading, in the shape of Jamie Jackson’s match report from Lyon. Bye!

Ed Aarons has filed his report from White Hart Lane, and here it is:

Hope is not lost for Ange Postecoglou. On another night, the Tottenham manager might have been celebrating a wonder goal from the outstanding Lucas Bergvall as his side looked forward to next week’s second leg in Germany with a healthy advantage.

But it is a reflection of how things have been going for Postecoglou that somehow Spurs did not manage to win this game after conceding an early goal to Hugo Ekitiké. Despite Bergvall’s best efforts as the 19-year-old covered every blade of grass for the cause in a performance that belied his age, they could not build on Pedro Porro’s well-taken equaliser as Eintracht Frankfurt held on for a draw that will probably make them favourites to progress to the semi-finals.

Much more here:

Ange Postecoglou has a chat. It’s quite a positive one, which is a nice change.

I can’t ask any more of the lads. It was disappointing to concede the way we did but after that I thought we were well in control of the game. I thought the performance was first rate. The goal was the stuff we’ve worked on, getting people in those areas, across the front of their defence. I had a feeling they wouldn’t be too expansive today, I thought they’d play fairly conservatively. The biggest blow we had was conceding so early, because that played into their hands.

On any other night you’d go away with a comfortable victory. If we repeat that performance I definitely think we give ourselves a chance. I don’t expect the second game will be too open either. It’ll come down to moments. I just think if we get those moments next week one of them will fall for us and we’ll get what we need. The second leg’s going to be tight for sure.

Kulusevski, he says, is “touch and go” for the second leg – no chance of starting, but “a possibility of being involved”.

It’s all over in Lyon and Manchester United, having scored with the last kick of the first half, have conceded with the last kick of the second. It finishes 2-2 there. In Glasgow it’s still 0-0 between 10-man Rangers and Athletic Bilbao, now in the 13th minute of stoppage time.

Manchester United have just taken the lead in Lyon, Joshua Zirkzee in the 88th minute.

90+5 mins: And that’s it! Spurs had their chances but they could only convert one, and it’s all square and all to play for when they go to Germany next week.

90+3 mins: Spurs should have scored! Porro sends the ball into the area, Bentancur heads back across goal, and Van de Ven flies in to convert from five yards, but he barely makes contact and Santos saves!

90+3 mins: Forty seconds to play and Skhiri fouls Sarr. A bit far out for a shot …

90+1 mins: There will be three minutes of stoppage time, or thereabouts. They start with Can Uzun replacing Gotze, and Niels Nkounkou coming on for Nathaniel Brown.

89 mins: Frankfurt bring Elye Wahi on for Ekitike.

89 mins: There have been no second-half goals in any of the three Europa League quarter-finals currently ongoing. Athletic Bilbao have missed a penalty against Rangers, though.

88 mins: Another Spurs sub, Solanke going off, Richarlison coming on.

87 mins: Two mistakes from Eintracht, one to give the ball away, and then Theate slipping and missing his challenge, but Solanke is closed down well and sends in a blind centre which comes to nothing.

86 mins: Tel curls in a cross, which Theate turns behind at the far post. The referee gives a goal kick, and books Tel for being annoyed about it.

85 mins: Eintracht have pretty much settled on the edge of their area. Spurs are hunting a breakthrough, but are they capable of craft as well as pressure?

82 mins: Chance! Spence pulls back to Brennan Johnson, on his left foot, 18 yards out, level with the near post, but he blasts high!

79 mins: Djed Spence, Mathys Tel and Pape Sarr come on, Udogie, Maddison and Son depart.

78 mins: Is a draw enough for Spurs if they are to win this tie? Probably not, in all likelihood? Anyway, they’re readying a triple substitution.

76 mins: Spurs seem to have spent about a third of this game taking corners, but in fact there have only been eight. They’ve just had another, which Santos claimed.

72 mins: The free-kick leads to a corner, which leads to another Bentancur header. This time he gets more power on it, but it’s straight at Kaua Santos, who catches.

71 mins: Another booking, Kristensen a bit harshly punished for making not a lot of contact with Udogie.

70 mins: A first substitution, Eintracht taking off Bahoya and bringing on Fares Chaibi.

68 mins: Then a good spell from Spurs. This is still entertainingly chaotic stuff. They win a corner, which is better than Gotze’s but still leads to nothing.

66 mins: Which is taken by Gotze and really profoundly rubbish.

65 mins: The referee rightly ignores Brennan Johnson’s dive just outside Eintracht’s penalty area and the visitors break, Ekitike eventually winning a corner.

63 mins: A spell of attacking pressure from Eintracht ends with Gotze heading inside to Bahoya, who has little time to react and volleys over the bar.

61 mins: A yellow card! Son loses the ball to Kristensen, who runs away with it but as he does so Bahoya slides into Son and completely wipes him out.

58 mins: And another save! This time Madison gets into the area, jinks towards the byline, cuts back onto his left foot, leaving Theate on his arse, and sends in a shot that Santos this time saves with his thigh.

57 mins: And now they hit the bar again! From the corner Bentancur wins the header, which I think deflects off a defender before looping over Santos and into that pesky woodwork.

56 mins: And now a fantastic save from Santos! The ball runs through to Son to the left of goal, and he pushes it onto his right foot before curling a shot across goal that Santos does really well to push round the post.

55 mins: Bergvall crashes the ball into the bar! The Swede starts to celebrate as the ball heads goalwards, and is slack-jawed when it crashes against the woodwork and bounces to safety.

52 mins: Kaua Santos, under no pressure, tries to sidefoots a pass to his right-back but sends the ball straight to Son, but thankfully with enough pace that it bounces off him and out of play.

50 mins: Chance for Eintracht! Good build-up down the right ends with a pass through to Bahoya, but he chooses to cross when he should have shot, and Spurs clear.

48 mins: A nice run from Udogie takes him past Kristensen and ends with a lovely cross, but there’s nobody in the middle to convert it.

46 mins: Peeeeeep! The home side get the second half started.

Meanwhile at Tottenham the players are back out, with no half-timely changes to report.