Diomande stars as Leipzig crush Frankfurt 6–0 in ruthless display

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SPORTS-WIDE-BANNER-V3B-PLAYRESPONSIBLY-1870x350-1-1024x192 Diomande stars as Leipzig crush Frankfurt 6–0 in ruthless display

RB Leipzig powered to their seventh straight home victory across all competitions with a ruthless 6–0 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt at the Red Bull Arena, keeping the pressure on Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich.

With Bayern having thrashed Stuttgart 5–0 earlier in the day, Leipzig needed a convincing response — and they delivered almost immediately. Just five minutes in, Christoph Baumgartner floated a perfectly weighted ball over the Frankfurt defence, allowing Conrad Harder to nip in ahead of Michael Zetterer and nod calmly into the net.

Frankfurt recovered from the early blow and nearly equalised on 32 minutes, only for Mahmoud Dahoud’s crisp strike from distance to cannon off the crossbar. Leipzig countered instantly, and Harder sprinted down the byline before squaring for Baumgartner, who tapped home from point-blank range to double the advantage. The Austrian briefly thought he had a second, but VAR intervened to flag a marginal offside.

At 2–0, the match still felt competitive as the second half began — but that illusion was shattered almost instantly. Within two minutes of the restart, chaos in the Frankfurt box led to the ball falling kindly for Yan Diomande, who swept home Leipzig’s third.

Nusa then rattled the post with a fierce long-range drive moments later, serving as another warning before Diomande struck again. His precise left-footed finish from the edge of the area nestled into the bottom corner to make it 4–0 as Frankfurt’s resistance collapsed.

With nearly half an hour still to play, the punishment continued. Hugo Larsson handled inside the box, allowing David Raum to confidently dispatch the resulting penalty. Diomande then completed his hat-trick in style, bursting onto Nicolas Seiwald’s through ball, rounding Zetterer, and slotting into the empty net to cap a sensational individual display.

The emphatic win keeps Leipzig eight points adrift of Bayern and firmly in the title chase, while Frankfurt — who remain seventh — see their European ambitions suffer a significant setback.

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