Freiburg (dpa / lsw) – Christian Streich did not lose his motivation even before the final game of the season. Although for SC Freiburg on Saturday (3.30pm / Sky) against Schalke it feels like nothing is going on anymore, Streich is looking forward to this game, “as if it were all about”. Because for the 55-year-old, it makes a difference whether the sports club stays eighth or slips to ninth.
“It’s also about our placement in the five-year ranking on Saturday,” said Streich. After this, the TV money will be distributed. Like all clubs, Freiburg had to “bear a financial deficit” through the corona pandemic and, on the other hand, had to bear “immense costs”, including for the construction of the new stadium in the west of the city.
The sports club originally wanted to move to its new home at the beginning of the new season. Prank does not assume that the game against Schalke will be the last game in the Black Forest Stadium. “It’s always bad when you can’t say goodbye to people and places,” said the SC coach. “We will have to say goodbye appropriately – with people. I hope that will work then.”
Streich hopes for a win at the end of this season not only for economic reasons. “Then we would have achieved our second best result in our eight years.” At the end of 2011 he took over the team as head coach and recently extended his contract. Streich has warned his team that the Schalke players who have won 15 games in Freiburg have their last chance to end the screwed-up second half with at least one positive experience.
“If I were in the place of esteemed colleague David Wagner, I would say we have the chance to prove on the pitch that we are not giving up,” said Streich. “And we want to defeat Schalke 04 in a tough, fair competition because we care about sport.” Therefore, he will probably not rely on a large rotation on the starting grid. According to Streich, goalkeeper coach Andres Kronenberg will decide whether substitute goalkeeper Mark Flekken will be used instead of Alexander Schwolow in the last game.
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