Burkardt's late goal rescued Frankfurt after Baum's red card

Paderborn led at 2-1 with the better chances, but Jonathan Burkardt's 90th-minute goal left Frankfurt with a point after Elias Niklas Baum was sent off.

Elias Niklas Baum was shown a yellow card in the 60th minute and a red in the 75th, leaving Eintracht Frankfurt with ten men for the last quarter of an hour at SC Paderborn 07. They still came away with a point. Jonathan Burkardt, who had given his side the lead in the 23rd minute, scored again in the 90th to make it 2-2, and that is the moment the afternoon will be remembered for.

Paderborn had equalised in the 45th minute, when Raphael Obermair finished from Ruben Müller's pass. Marvin Pieringer then converted a penalty in the 73rd, which put the home side ahead just before Baum's dismissal. Paderborn usually score 0.8 goals per home match, so two in one game was well above their normal output. Four goals in total also sits above the league's usual 3.5 per match.

On the surface, Paderborn's shots were ordinary, but the quality behind them was not. They had 51% of the ball, a touch above the 49.5% they average at home, and took 11 shots, fewer than their usual 13.4 and well under the league's typical 14.9 per side. Their expected goals (xG, a figure that adds up how likely each shot was to go in, judged by where it was taken from) reached 2.42, roughly double their home average. The chances were fewer, but they were far better than usual.

Frankfurt's numbers were close to their normal level, but the quality of what they produced was lower. They had 49% of the ball, near their away norm of 50.3%, and took 14 shots, almost exactly their usual 13.6. Nine of those came from inside the box and they won six corners to Paderborn's two, yet only two were on target, and their xG of 1.22 sat under the 1.4 they average away from home. They scored two, which beats their away average of 1.6, and conceded two against an average of 2.3, so their defensive figures were ordinary.

Burkardt's two goals make him the standout in the individual figures. He had four shots, two of them on target, and earned a rating of 8.9, the highest recorded for either side. Farès Chaïbi set up the first goal and created five chances for team-mates with his key passes, which are passes that lead directly to a shot. Pieringer and Obermair did the scoring for Paderborn, and a late equaliser from a ten-man side is the kind of result a club remembers well after the match report has been written.

Frankfurt sit ninth in the table with 11 points from eight matches, built on three wins, two draws and three defeats away from home. Paderborn are 15th, with nine points from eight home games, two wins, three draws and three defeats. Both sides end the afternoon with one point more than their home or away form would have suggested, and the table simply records what each of them has taken so far.

Player of the matchJ. Burkardt2 goals8.9

M. Pieringer1 goal7.8

R. Obermair1 goal7.6

F. Chaïbi1 assist7.1