The High Wire act of Angel Postocoglou goes to Frankfurt.
His Tottenham team is alive in equality and offering attractive previews that they could rediscover their best rhythm and hope that they do not live to regret the chances created and not converted.
The goal of Pedro Porro saved a draw on the night after a terrible start before the Spurs shaken the woodwork twice in the second half and found only goalkeeper Kaua Santos in inspired form to refuse them the second goal and an advance to be taken in Germany.
The PostCoglou team has dominated large parts of the game, performing as well as in the weeks since the players have returned from injury, and will know that they must continue to improve to beat opponents who have proven how dangerous they can be on the break, in an atmosphere that promises to be hostile.
What is vital is that they always fight for a place in the last four of the Europa League.
Despite the whole pre-match fanfare in a season at stake, the biggest night of the year and the catchy intervention of “When the Spurs Go Marching in”, they lost the initiative when they conceded in just six minutes.
The High Wire act of Angel Postoccoou will go to Francfurt after a 1-1 draw during the first stage
James Maddison was easily dispossessed in the depths of Eintracht by Ellyes Skhiri who changed play with a long pass, played quickly in the space created by the right back of Pedro Porro to move forward.
It is the means of the manual to punish the spurs on turnover. Porro is always so quick to get out of the defense and the Germans knew he was going to arrive. Ekitike, their central center and the largest threat, has largely derived in this area to recover the Skhiri pass.
Porro returned to position, but Ekitike was in motion, walking inside and aimed at 20 meters. His low curling stroke was precise, inside the post, outside the reach of Guglielmo Vicario.
It was his 20th goal of the season for Eintracht and just the postcoglou start did not want, although his team summoned an answer, forcing the orange tide to withdraw, finding a rhythm and generating a decent pressure.
Dominic Solanke has become more influential, holding the ball and turning in the channels to trigger small current models for spurs in the last third, Amadalisant Maddison to create in more dangerous areas.
A Cross Solanke seemed intended for Brennan Johnson to the rear post until Equracht The left back Arthur Theate continued and headed for his own goal, although the game restarted with a goal kick.
The momentum had, however, tilted and porro leveled in the 26th minute, a delicious final at the end of a decisive movement to the local team. Heung-min Son chose another of these races by Solanke who held a challenge and found Maddison in support.
Maddison bypassed his man inside the penalty area and reduced the bottom ball of the line to see in Porro, arriving at six meters and marking with a stained blow from his left boot to divert the ball behind his right leg and in the net.
The same two players of the guilty spurs in the aim of opening were combined for the equalizer and Postcoglou let out a cry of relief while he was swinging a fist in the air and turned on a heel.
The Spurs checked the rest of the first half and survived a fear just before the interval, when a sequence of Eintracht passes ended with another chance for Ekitike.
This time, he came to his left foot and the international under the age of 21 from France had to strike him for the first time, which he did but could not beat Vicario who saved the dive on his right.
Lucas Bergvall was about to score a second specialty for Tottenham, at the start of the second half.
A change of rhythm brought him through a crowd in the midfield and the Swedish teenager opted for the goal from a distance, a sweet strike on an angle that beat goalkeeper Kaua Santos and crashed against the goal of the goal.
He raised the atmosphere inside the stadium and sparked a wave of chances of the spurs. The back-up “ The Santos goalkeeper, exceeding the number one injured Kevin Trapp, made two fines to refuse the son, then Maddison before Rodrigo Bentancur strikes the woodwork again.
Bentancur headed a corner against the bar, then twisted freely to head directly to Santos from another corner.
Johnson shot another chance, just the genre he loves, moving inside the left to connect with a low cross of Djed Spence. He scored in the same way against Southampton on Sunday, but it turned out.
Santos made another fine of Micky Van de Ven, his heroic key to the result for Eintracht Francfurt.
