UEFA EUROPA LEAGUE - 2019/20 SEASON MATCH PRESS KITS (First leg: 3-0) St. Jakob-Park - Basel Thursday 6 August 2020 FC Basel 1893 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Eintracht Frankfurt Round of 16, Second leg Last updated 13/08/2020 00:59CET 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 FC Basel 1893 - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 6 August 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Previous meetings Head to Head UEFA Europa League Date Stage Match Result Venue Goalscorers Eintracht Frankfurt - FC Basel Frankfurt am Campo 27, Bua 73, F. 12/03/2020 R16 0-3 1893 Main Frei 85 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Basel 1893 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 0 Eintracht Frankfurt 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 3 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 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 2 FC Basel 1893 - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 6 August 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel 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 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 3 FC Basel 1893 - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 6 August 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel 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 Home Away Final Total Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L Pld W D L GF GA FC Basel 1893 7 2 0 5 9 2 2 5 0 0 0 0 16 4 2 10 17 34 Eintracht Frankfurt 5 3 1 1 4 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 9 5 2 2 16 11 4 FC Basel 1893 - Eintracht Frankfurt Thursday 6 August 2020 - 21.00CET (21.00 local time) Match press kit St. Jakob-Park, Basel Match background Basel have one foot in the UEFA Europa League quarter-finals after overwhelming 2018/19 semi-finalists Eintracht Frankfurt 3-0 away in the first leg of their round of 16 tie, in the process recording their fourth successive clean sheet in the competition. • 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. • 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. Previous meetings • Basel made it two 3-0 away wins in successive rounds with their comprehensive first-leg win in Frankfurt, Samuele Campo's first European goal – a superb left-footed free-kick – opening the scoring on 27 minutes before Kevin Bua, who has since left the club, and Fabian Frei added precise finishes in the second period. • Although Basel and Frankfurt had never previously 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. • Basel have lost all four of their previous knockout ties against German opponents and managed just two wins in seven home games against German clubs, losing the other five. Their last home win was 1-0 against Bayern München in the first leg of the 2011/12 UEFA Champions League round of 16, with Valentin Stocker scoring the late winner, but it triggered a second-leg 7-0 loss in Munich that remains the Swiss club's heaviest European defeat. • Eintracht have won three of their four UEFA two-legged ties against Swiss clubs and their record in Switzerland is W2 D1 L1, although they have failed to score on their last two visits, both against Grasshoppers in Zurich. Form guide Basel • Having won the Swiss Super League eight seasons running from 2009/10 to 2016/17, Basel finished second to Young Boys in each of the next two campaigns. In 2018/19 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 took 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. • Basel's overall record in the UEFA Europa League knockout phase at the St. Jakob-Park is W6 D3 L2. With wins in all three home group games this term, plus the 1-0 success against APOEL, their unbeaten home run in the UEFA Europa League, qualifying included, has now stretched to nine matches (W7 D2) • Basel have won 12 of the 13 UEFA ties in which they were triumphant on the road in the first leg, the most recent in this season's round of 32 against APOEL – the only previous occasion when they have triumphed 3-0.