Leeds United pair clash with defender given marching orders before opposite number's last laugh

Whites pair Robin Koch and Max Wober are both on season-long loans away from Leeds in the Bundesliga and the defensive duo faced each other on Wednesday night as Koch’s Eintracht Frankfurt hosted Wober’s Borussia Monchengladbach in a league clash.

Both players started and Wober fired Monchengladbach into a 27th-minute lead as he produced a fine glancing header from a corner that dropped into the bottom left of the net for his first goal for the club. Wober then went close to adding a second upon getting himself into the box from a counter before producing a low shot that was pushed wide of the near post.

His earlier header took his side into the interval with a 1-0 lead but Wober’s night started to turn sour after the break as the Austrian was firstly booked in the 69th minute for a foul on Omar Marmoush before being sent off 19 minutes later as another foul on Farès Chaïbi earned him a second booking.

Monchengladbach still looked destined to leave with all three points as the game headed into seven minutes of second-half stoppage time but the hosts levelled in the 92nd minute through Aurélio Buta’s looping header to finish a Niels Nkounkou cross from the left flank.

But yet more drama was to follow and Whites defender Koch was the man to provide it as he slid home a 97th-minute winner to another cross from the left flank. The strike marked Koch’s third goal for his loan side but first Bundesliga strike as his team moved up to sixth place in the table. Monchengladbach now sit 12th.