FEATURE | How Hugo Ekitiké revived his profession at Eintracht Frankfurt


It has been eight months since Hugo Ekitiké moved from PSG to Eintracht Frankfurt. The transfer was meant to fill the outlet left by Randal Kolo Muani six months beforehand in addition to restart the Frenchman’s profession after a poor spell within the capital.

Ekitiké initially joined Frankfurt on mortgage initially of the 12 months and regardless of having to construct up his match health for the primary half of his six-month mortgage on the membership, it was sufficient to persuade Frankfurt to activate the €16.5m purchase choice in his mortgage. Now the 22-year-old has lastly hit his stride and appears like he can lastly ship on the promise that he confirmed at Reims. 

Within the first three video games of the season, Ekitiké has three targets and two assists, with two targets and an help within the DFB Pokal first spherical towards Eintracht Braunschweig and a purpose and an help in Frankfurt’s 3-1 win towards Hoffenheim within the Bundesliga. In Die Adler’s Bundesliga opener towards Borussia Dortmund, Ekitiké once more put in a powerful efficiency up entrance. 

Ektike’s progressive carries and shot-creating actions are again as much as the degrees of his time within the Grand Est, per FBref. The striker can also be getting extra pictures off and can also be averaging a greater xG. Each of those may be attributed to the truth that he’s now the point of interest of the assault and doesn’t must be a backup choice to the likes of Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi and Neymar, which was the case in Paris. 

On prime of this, Ektike has fashioned a partnership with Omar Marmoush with the pair with the ability to get the very best out of each other within the opening rounds of the season with the height of their link-up being seen within the win towards Hoffenheim on the weekend.

The pair add a much-needed dynamism to this youthful Frankfurt assault, which at instances had been missing final 12 months because of the restraints by head coach Dino Toppmöller in his first season in cost, however to date it appears to be like like the previous assistant to Julian Nagelsmann has taken the handbrake off of the group. 

Away from Marmoush and Ekitiké, there may be additionally Farès Chaïbi who brings aptitude to the group, Can Uzun who would be the subsequent huge factor in German soccer, Igor Matanovic who affords a unique striker profile to Ekitiké and Jean Bahoya. 

GGFN | Jack Meenan 



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