Frankfurt get first road win vs. Cottbus

Frankfurt players celebrate after Nikos Liberopoulos' goal completes the comeback win in Cottbus, Germany.

Eintracht Frankfurt came from two goals down to claim their first away win of the season and send Energie Cottbus to the foot of the Bundesliga table.


The hosts looked to be cruising after a Dimitar Rangelov double inside the opening 15 minutes.


But Michael Fink gave Frankfurt a lifeline before half-time, with Martin Fenin and Nikos Liberopoulos striking in the space of six second-half minutes to complete their second comeback in three days.


They had scored twice in the final six minutes to beat Karlsruhe 2-1 in midweek.


Saturday's win took the visitors up to 12th, while Borussia Monchengladbach's win over Karlsruhe condemned Cottbus to the bottom of the standings.


It had all looked like turning out so differently though as Bulgaria striker Rangelov twice capitalized on defensive howlers to put Cottbus in control early on.


He opened the scoring after seven minutes, Aaron Galindo misjudging a throw-in on the right and letting the forward nip past him and finish into the left corner.


Galindo had team-mate Liberopoulos to share the embarrassment with in the 15th minute as the Greek completely missed Ervin Skela's free-kick and Rangelov headed home from three yards.


Cottbus, though, have not kept a clean sheet at home in the league all season and the nerves were jangling again when Fink halved the deficit in the 38th minute.


The midfielder let fly from 25 yards and his effort gave Gerhard Tremmel no chance as it arrowed into the top corner.


Tremmel should have done better with Eintracht's equalizer in the 68th minute.


Umit Korkmaz's center picked out substitute Fenin eight yards out and although the keeper got a hand to the striker's shot he could not keep it out.


And Liberopoulos sealed the fightback six minutes later when he headed home the winner from Markus Steinhofer's free-kick.


Dusan Vasiljevic saw an effort from distance come back off the left-hand post as Cottbus pushed for an equalizer, but it never came.