Augsburg welcome Eintracht Frankfurt to the WWK Arena on Sunday with both sides still tied to their respective spring ambitions, and with little margin left to waste. Augsburg sit ninth after 10 wins, six draws and 14 defeats from 30 league matches, while Frankfurt are eighth on 42 points and only one point off a Conference League place.
The hosts arrive with a lift after ending a five-game winless run by beating Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 last time out. Fabian Rieder settled that game with a 97th-minute penalty, and Augsburg earned their first away win over Leverkusen since August 2022. They now want a seventh home league victory of the season, though Frankfurt have denied them in four straight meetings. Augsburg’s last win in the fixture came in December 2023, when Fredrik Jensen and Iago Borduchi scored in a 2-1 victory.
Frankfurt travel in need of a response after a 3-1 home defeat by RB Leipzig last Saturday, their first loss at home since January. Hugo Larsson scored before Antonio Nusa and Conrad Harder turned the match for Leipzig, but the setback did not erase the fact that Frankfurt had beaten Wolfsburg 2-1 away on April 11. That result gave them a chance to string together back-to-back away league wins for the first time this season.
The reverse meeting in December 2024 went Frankfurt’s way, too, with Ritsu Doan scoring the only goal in a 1-0 win over Augsburg. A second straight league win over the Bavarians would give Frankfurt a Bundesliga double for the first time since the 2020-21 campaign, a useful step in a run that still has Europe in view. Augsburg, meanwhile, are still chasing their first top-half Bundesliga finish in 11 years and could have an extra boost if a defender recently back from injury is included in the matchday squad for the first time since the reverse fixture in December.
Frankfurt are without Nnamdi Collins, Jens Grahl, Kauã Santos and Jean-Mattéo Bahoya, a short list that leaves them with four unavailable players for a match that carries more weight than its place in the calendar suggests. Augsburg have momentum. Frankfurt have the points edge. The result may come down to which side handles the pressure of a race that is suddenly looking very real.
