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UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS Frankfurt stadion - Frankfurt am Main Thursday 12 March 2020 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Eintracht Frankfurt Round of 16, First leg FC Basel 1893 Last updated 13/08/2020 00:55CET Previous meetings 2 Match background 5 Team facts 7 Squad list 9 Fixtures and results 11 Match-by-match lineups 15 Match officials 19 Legend 21 1 Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Basel 1893 Thursday 12 March 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Frankfurt stadion, Frankfurt am Main Previous meetings Head to Head No UEFA competition matches have been played between these two teams Eintracht Frankfurt - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eintracht Frankfurt - 1-0 Frankfurt am 04/10/1988 R1 Bakalorz 32 Grasshopper Club Zürich agg: 1-0 Main Grasshopper Club Zürich - 06/09/1988 R1 0-0 Basel Eintracht Frankfurt UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Grasshopper Club Zürich - 1-0 14/03/1978 QF Zurich Ponte 33 (P) Eintracht Frankfurt agg: 3-3 ag Kraus 58, Hölzenbein Eintracht Frankfurt - Frankfurt am 01/03/1978 QF 3-2 68, 90 (P); Bosco 36, Grasshopper Club Zürich Main Ponte 52 (P) Kraus 1, Grabowski 62, Stepanović 68, 4-3 Frankfurt am 02/11/1977 R2 Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Zürich Krobbach 87; Risi 45 agg: 7-3 Main (P), 60, Torstensson 78 Hölzenbein 28, 19/10/1977 R2 FC Zürich - Eintracht Frankfurt 0-3 Zurich Wenzel 77, Grabowski 90 European Champions Clubs' Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eintracht Frankfurt - BSC Young 1-1 Frankfurt am Bäumler 68 (P); 25/11/1959 R1 Boys agg: 5-2 Main Schneider 90 Meier 23; Weilbächer BSC Young Boys - Eintracht 04/11/1959 R1 1-4 Berne 4, Stein 72, Bäumler Frankfurt 76 (P), Meier 82 FC Basel 1893 - Record versus clubs from opponents' country UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 11/12/2013 GS FC Schalke 04 - FC Basel 1893 2-0 Gelsenkirchen Draxler 51, Matip 57 01/10/2013 GS FC Basel 1893 - FC Schalke 04 0-1 Basel Draxler 54 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Robben 11, 81, Müller FC Bayern München - FC Basel 7-0 13/03/2012 R16 Munich 42, Gomez 44, 50, 61, 1893 agg: 7-1 67 FC Basel 1893 - FC Bayern 22/02/2012 R16 1-0 Basel Stocker 86 München 2 Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Basel 1893 Thursday 12 March 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Frankfurt stadion, Frankfurt am Main UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers FC Bayern München - FC Basel Ribéry 35, 50, 08/12/2010 GS 3-0 Munich 1893 Tymoshchuk 37 A. Frei 18; FC Basel 1893 - FC Bayern 28/09/2010 GS 1-2 Basel Schweinsteiger 56 München (P), 89 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers 20/12/2007 GS Hamburger SV - FC Basel 1893 1-1 Hamburg Olić 73; Ergić 58 UEFA Champions League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers SV Werder Bremen - FC Basel 3-0 Klasnić 65, 73, 24/08/2005 QR3 Bremen 1893 agg: 4-2 Borowski 68 (P) FC Basel 1893 - SV Werder D. Degen 28, Rossi 10/08/2005 QR3 2-1 Basel Bremen 52; Klose 73 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kobiashvili 8; Delgado 21/10/2004 GS FC Schalke 04 - FC Basel 1893 1-1 Gelsenkirchen 82 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Koumantarakis 50, 2-3 24/07/1999 R3 FC Basel 1893 - Hamburger SV Basel 57; Fischer 37, Groth agg: 3-3 ag 43, Yeboah 47 18/07/1999 R3 Hamburger SV - FC Basel 1893 0-1 Lubeck Koumantarakis 16 UEFA Intertoto Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Zuffi 39 (P), Rey 85; 08/07/1995 GS FC Basel 1893 - Karlsruher SC 2-3 Basel Fink 13, Nowotny 33, Schmitt 78 UEFA Cup Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Kelsch 24, 48, 68, H. 4-1 27/09/1978 R1 VfB Stuttgart - FC Basel 1893 Stuttgart Müller 64; agg: 7-3 Schönenberger 35 Stohler 30, Tanner 78; 13/09/1978 R1 FC Basel 1893 - VfB Stuttgart 2-3 Basel D. Hoeness 44, Ohlicher 54, 70 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA Eintracht Frankfurt 4 3 1 0 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 8 5 2 1 16 8 FC Basel 1893 7 2 0 5 8 1 2 5 0 0 0 0 15 3 2 10 14 34 3 Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Basel 1893 Thursday 12 March 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Frankfurt stadion, Frankfurt am Main 4 Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Basel 1893 Thursday 12 March 2020 - 18.55CET (18.55 local time) Match press kit Frankfurt stadion, Frankfurt am Main Match background Two former UEFA Europa League semi-finalists have been paired together in the round of 16 as Eintracht Frankfurt, bidding to reach the last four for the second successive season, go head to head for the first time in UEFA competition with Basel. • Eintracht made it back to the UEFA Europa League knockout phase this term despite losing as many games as they won in the group stage, but they were convincing conquerors of Salzburg in the round of 32, winning the home leg 4-1 and drawing the delayed return fixture 2-2 thanks to two goals from Portuguese striker André Silva. • Basel clinched qualification for the round of 32 with two games to spare after doing the double over fellow Group C qualifiers Getafe, eventually topping the section with 13 points. It was also plain sailing for the Swiss side in the round of 32 as they beat Cypriot champions APOEL 3-0 away and 1-0 at home. Previous meetings • Although Frankfurt and Basel have never met in a UEFA match, select XIs from their respective cities did face each other in the group stage of the inaugural Inter-Cities Fairs Cup of 1955–58, each side posting a big home victory as Frankfurt won 5-1 in June 1956 and Basel 6-2 a year later. • Eintracht are unbeaten at home to Swiss opposition in UEFA matches (W3 D1), although their last such experience was back in 1988, when they beat Grasshoppers 1-0 (also on aggregate) in the European Cup Winners' Cup first round. Frankfurt have won three of their four two-legged ties against Swiss clubs. • Basel have lost all four of their previous knockout ties against German opponents and have managed just one win in eight visits to Germany (D2 L5), losing their last three matches in the country without scoring, among them a 7-0 defeat by Bayern München in the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League round of 16 that remains the club's heaviest European defeat. Form guide Eintracht • Frankfurt's 14-match UEFA Europa League adventure in 2018/19 brought memorable knockout phase wins over three teams that had crossed over in mid-season from the UEFA Champions League – Shakhtar Donetsk, Internazionale and Benfica – before they were beaten on penalties in the semi-final by eventual winners Chelsea. That European run was accompanied by a seventh-placed finish in the Bundesliga. • The 1980 UEFA Cup winners embarked on this UEFA Europa League campaign in the second qualifying round, beating Flora Tallinn, Vaduz and Strasbourg to reach the group stage for the third time. Defeated 3-0 at home by Arsenal on Matchday 1, they recovered to beat Vitória SC away and Standard Liège in Frankfurt, but after posting a famous 2-1 win in north London, they lost at home to Vitória and only just squeezed through as Group F runners-up on nine points – half as many as they amassed last season. • The win against Salzburg – another opponent that dropped into the competition from the UEFA Champions League – has returned Frankfurt to the round of 16, where they overcame Inter last season (0-0 h, 1-0 a) in their only previous tie at this stage of the competition. • Eintracht's home record in the UEFA Europa League is W14 D3 L2, with no losses until Arsenal beat them on Matchday 1. They remain undefeated in Frankfurt, however, in the competition's knockout phase (W3 D3). Basel • Having won the Swiss Super League eight seasons running from 2009/10 to 2016/17, Basel have finished second to Young Boys in each of the past two campaigns. Last season they were eliminated from both the UEFA Champions League and the UEFA Europa League in the qualifying phase. • This season they again missed out on the UEFA Champions League proper, an away-goals success against PSV Eindhoven in the second qualifying round preceding a 5-2 aggregate defeat by LASK. That meant a transfer to the UEFA Europa League group stage, where they opened with a 5-0 home win against Krasnodar, then drew 2-2 at Trabzonspor before beating Getafe 1-0 in Spain and 2-1 in Switzerland to ensure an early qualification. • Basel's victory against APOEL has taken them into the UEFA Europa League round of 16 for the fourth time. They have won two and lost one of the previous three ties, beating Zenit (2-0 h, 0-1 a) in 2012/13, when they went on to reach the semi-finals, and Salzburg in 2013/14 (0-0 h, 2-1 a), but losing to eventual winners Sevilla (0-0 h, 0-3 a) in 2015/16.