MOSCOW, May 19. To the defender of the German football club «Eintracht» Sebastian Rode, who received a spike in the head in the Europa League final, was stitched in the hospital. On Wednesday, Eintracht beat the Scottish Rangers on penalties in the Europa League final (1:1, 5:4 in the penalty shootout). In the fifth minute of the meeting, the captain of the Frankfurt club was injured after a collision with John Landström. Midfielder “Rangers”, despite hitting an opponent with spikes in the head, escaped punishment. Rode's head was bandaged, after which he managed to continue the game. «The main thing is to achieve the goal! The rest is not important,» commented on a photo from the Rode hospital, which he posted on Instagram (Meta's activities (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist). «I immediately got up. Everything was fine, although it was painful. I immediately remembered Bastian Schweinsteiger, who had his head cut in the 2014 World Cup final. I think that was a good omen,» Rohde was quoted as saying by the website of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).
