Kaua Santos has secured Eintracht Frankfurt the important draw in the duel at Tottenham Hotspur. The Brazilian is getting stronger.
London – it was the baptism of fire for Kaua Santos, all of which had previously expected. And – so much is in advance – he passed it with flying colors. Eintracht Frankfurt In the first leg of the Europa League quarter-final at the Tottenham Hotspur in the second round, five minutes.
Eintracht- “Jewel” Santos overrides
The hosts, which was still very calm in the first 45 minutes, was suddenly wide awake – and had to watch in the stands, like the “Teufelskerl” between the posts of the Hesse – partly also in conjunction with the aluminum – everything that came to his housing. The parade against the Schlenzer from Heung-Min Son was simply one of the category “World Class” (56th). Two minutes later, James Maddison (58th) also failed on the 22-year-old.
And then there was a last standard deep in added time. Micky van der Ven came to the header and again demanded Eintracht “Jewel” Santos, who steered the leather over the crossbar. Would it have been necessary? The slow motion does not give a final information. The two-meter giant with the pranks didn’t care, he took no risk and the very valuable spectacular 1: 1 was fixed for the Hesse.
“Just Enjoying …” says everything about the Eintracht goalkeeper Santos
Santos crowned an evening that only offered a single wobbly and happiness moment when a mistake in the game was unpunished. “Just Enjoying …” posted the match winner on the night from Thursday to Friday on Instagram. This joy and lightness radiate on the entire team.
Not only Arthur Theat benefits from the security of the goalkeeper, who acted as a “master of the air” and all picked the high balls down confidently and uncompromisingly. “Kaua is a young goalkeeper, but he doesn’t look like one. He radiates confidence. Kaua still has to learn, but he gives us security.” The Belgian added that this was also on captain Kevin Trapp Contribution, however, referred to his injury -related failure.
Special praise for Eintracht goalkeeper from Theate and Krösche
“Sometimes,” Teate told Theat with a smile on his face, Santos are already playing the ball forward, although the defense has to “rest” a little: “Kaua is a goalkeeper who wants to make the game quickly. He has worked hard for his chance this season. And now he is doing a good job.”
Sports director Markus Krösche did not want to contradict this assessment: “Kaua made a good game. This is important against an opponent with such an offensive quality.” Coach Dino Toppmöller packed the praise to his keeper in a compliment to the entire team.
Eintracht captain Trapp continues
When it comes to repeated demand for the goalkeeper ranking, the coach defended with reference to the shin bone injury of his captain: “We do not know when Kevin Trapp can come back. But we don’t just have great confidence in Kaua.”
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Instead, Toppmöller praised his three final men again, also called Trapp and Jens Grahl in addition to Santos. Afterwards, however, the trainer explicitly highlighted his outstanding keeper: “Kaua has the opportunity to play and shine. He did a good job.”
