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Eintracht Frankfurt kept their slim hopes of a top five finish alive and heaped the pressure on VfL Bochum with a 2-1 win at the rewirpowerstadion.

Two clubs with very different aims meet at the rewirpower-Stadion on Friday evening as VfL Bochum host Eintracht Frankfurt (kick off: 20:30 CET).

Two late goals from Juvhel Tsoumou and Martin Fenin saw Eintracht Frankfurt record a surprise victory over top of the table Bayern München.

At this stage of the season Bayern Munich cannot afford to drop any points in the title race and three points in Frankfurt could put some distance between the Bavarian giants and their competition.

Hannover finally had something to cheer about last week, edging the vital relegation battle at Freiburg for their first win in a long time. Now they aim to follow that up with a home victory against Eintracht, who have not left this particular fixture with maximum points for 22 years.

The game in Dortmund was one of the greatest Eintracht matches I ever watched. The opponent Dortmund is a strong home-team that had only lost at home to Bayern and Schalke but won most of the other matches.

Alex Meier has been a member of Eintracht Frankfurt since 2004. The 1.96m (6’5”) tall midfielder recently signed a contract extension till 2014 and seems to be having a break out year in his new role among the team.

VfB Stuttgart beat Eintracht Frankfurt to continue their ascent of the table under Christian Gross. The 2-1 home victory lifts the team from the south west into eighth, now just one point behind Eintracht and five shy of a European place.

Hamburger SV struggled without the injured Ruud van Nistelrooy, as they stumbled to a 0-0 draw at home to Eintracht Frankfurt, doing their championship hopes little good.

When Michael Skibbe took over as coach of Frankfurt last summer and proclaimed how he wanted to \"get them playing attractive, exciting football and take Eintracht one step further,\" few would have guessed the 44-year-old tactician would?achieve his aims so quickly.

Eintracht Frankfurt stole victory with a last minute Halil Altintop winner to keep up their push for UEFA Europa League competition, at the expense of plucky SC Freiburg, the final score 2-1 at the Commerzbank Arena after the home side had found themselves behind.

Victory in front of a full house in Dortmund - for an emotional player like Frankfurt's Maik Franz, Eintracht's 3-2 win was one of the highlights of the season.

In a stunning game at Signal-Iduna-Park, Eintracht Frankfurt eventually came out 3-2 winners over Borussia Dortmund.

Following a long round of negotiations, Halil Altintop has put pen to paper on a deal with Eintracht Frankfurt that will keep him with the Eagles until 30 June 2010.

Hannover 96 lost 1-0 at 1. FSV Mainz 05 thanks to Andre Schürrle's goal, but the only two sides below them, Hertha BSC and 1. FC Nürnberg, each picked up a point at home against Borussia Mönchengladbach and Eintracht Frankfurt respectively.

Eintracht Frankfurt have completed the signing of USA international Ricardo Clark.

Eintracht Frankfurt beat Werder Bremen 1-0 (0-0) in a closely-contested game at the Commerzbank Arena to move up to within a point of their opponents in the standings. The victory also secured a notable season double for Eintracht, who won 3-2 at Bremen on matchday 1.

The year is nearly over, and so is another period full of ups and downs for us Eintracht supporters. There’s been glory, there’s been shame, and it’s never been boring. Let’s face it – it never will be at this club, and that’s part of the reason why we love it so much.

Our first match in December was the derby against our neighbour from Mainz. As both teams are always highly motivated in these derbys and try to avoid defeats at any cost, 9 of 13 matches between the 2 clubs were draws.

On matchday 15 1. FSV Mainz 05 make a short trip north where they will face Eintracht Frankfurt at the Commerzbank arena. Just four points and three places divide the two sides coming into Saturday's game.

It only took Bayer Leverkusen only the first eleven minutes to guarantee that they would be the side who would be top of the Bundesliga table going into next week's international break, as they put three past Eintracht debutant goalkeeper Ralf Fährmann before Michael Skibbe's side could catch their breath, prior to adding a fourth late on to seal their seventh win of the season.

There was a big downer felt by team, management and fans recently. What we had hoped would become our personal ‘Oktoberfest’ with two games against Bayern Munich in four days ended with two defeats.

Maik Franz is one of the newest editions to the Eintracht Frankfurt team in the much needed defensive part of the field. With that Maik Franz brings with him over 160 Bundesliga appearances with teams like Wolfsburg, Karlsruhe and as a member of the U21 German national team from 2002-2004.

We played 4 matches in October – plus 1 yesterday on the 1st of November. After the first defeat against Stuttgart we lost once again at Schalke. The Schalke-team got a big name, players like Neuer, Westermann, Hoewedes, Kuranyi are strong German players who played or play for the national teams (Hoewedes won the U21-European Championship with the German team in summer).