Overview

• Eintracht Frankfurt thrashed Galatasaray 5:1 to open the Champions League, with Jonathan Burkardt scoring twice and the club moving top of its group.
• Goals also came via Can Uzun and Ansgar Knauff plus a Davinson Sánchez own goal, as 58,700 watched in Frankfurt with fewer away fans present than the ticket allocation suggested.
• Union Berlin coach Steffen Baumgart called the display strong motivation before Union’s league visit to Frankfurt on Sunday afternoon.
• In a separate development, police executed coordinated searches tied to June’s Beierfeld youth match attack, deploying about 250 officers to 43 addresses, identifying 45 suspects and seizing phones, clothing and prohibited pyrotechnics without making arrests.
• Kassel criminal police are investigating a Baunatal trick theft in which suspects posing as water staff stole a metal cash box with cash and jewelry from an elderly resident, and they are seeking witnesses.