Pre-season: Stuttgart and Frankfurt beat Premier League sides Everton and Hull City

VfB Stuttgart and Eintracht Frankfurt beat Premier League opponents in friendly games on Saturday.

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VfB Stuttgart and Eintracht Frankfurt prevailed against Premier League opponents on Saturday. The Swabians beat David Moyes’ Everton 3-1 at MHPArena, while Frankfurt recorded a 2-0 win over newly-promoted Hull City in Dreieich.

There was a great atmosphere in Stuttgart as goals from Nikolas Nartey, Ramon Hendriks and Badredine Bouanani helped them to a convincing win over the club that never got relegated from the Premier League.

However, Dan-Axel Zagadou’s early substitution raised concern as the Frenchman has been struggling with injuries for years. Everton scored their goal from Beto’s penalty-kick before half-time substitute Bouanani, who assisted the second goal for Hendriks, restored Stuttgart’s two-goal advantage in injury-time.

Meanwhile, goals from Jonathan Burkardt and Love Arrhov helped Frankfurt to a straightforward win over Hull City. The game was played in four quarters of 30 minutes. Burkardt scored the opening goal in the first-half with the assist coming straight from goalkeeper Kaua Santos.

Swedish youngster Arrhov sealed the win with a well-taken strike in the 71st minute. New signing Raphael Onyedika played for the Eagles.