Freiburg (dpa) – For the professionals from Eintracht Frankfurt there were loud “away win” calls from the fans who had traveled with them, and cheering applause for the SC Freiburg players. With the 2-0 (2-0) in the Europa-Park Stadium, the Hessians celebrated their third competitive game win in a row on Sunday and increased their lead over the relegation place of the Bundesliga to five points. “We have to stay humble, many things were very good, but we still have a lot of work to do,” said Frankfurt coach Oliver Glasner. The game against Royal Antwerp on Thursday, in which it is about the group victory in the Europa League, his team should contest with a lot of self-confidence. But now it is also important not to “take off”.
Jesper Lindström (34th minute) and Filip Kostic (43rd) scored the goals for the guests in front of 32,500 spectators. Freiburg suffered their second defeat of the season two weeks after the 2-1 defeat at Bayern Munich and the first in the new stadium. In addition, they missed the setting of a nine-year-old club record: they have only managed nine Bundesliga home games without defeat in 2012 so far. In the table, Baden remain third, but are now five points behind second-placed Borussia Dortmund.
“We were really unlucky in some situations,” said Freiburg coach Christian Streich, referring to Nicolas Höfler’s goal on the post (51st) or Vincenzo Grifo’s shot, which the Frankfurters just scratched off the line. This scene in particular also exemplified the great commitment of Eintracht in the second half. He was “enthusiastic about the passion with which the boys defended the goal,” said guest coach Glasner. Especially in the 20 minutes after the break, the morally strong home side had some chances – and the Frankfurt counter-opportunities.
Glasner was also enthusiastic about the behavior of Freiburg’s Vincenzo Grifo, who caused a very special scene in the 55th minute. After an alleged foul on him in the penalty area, the offensive man immediately made it clear that it wasn’t. Glasner called it “a fantastic action”. Grifo “showed what he and SC Freiburg stand for: For honest football, fair play and sportsmanship.”
He congratulates Grifo, but also Freiburg coach Christian Streich, said Glasner. Because: “At the end of the day, the players are always the mirror image of the coach.” After the scene with Frankfurt veteran Timothy Chandler, Grifo “didn’t have the feeling that he hit me,” as he said at DAZN. “We want to stay fair, even if it would have helped us.” Streich had immediately seen from outside that it was not a 911. “That was nothing, and that’s right, that Vincenzo communicated it that way, I think that’s good.”
In contrast to the last-minute win at bottom Greuther Fürth (2-1) before the international break, the Frankfurters did not have to tremble to the end this time. Nevertheless, they were relieved. Especially since they were able to compensate for the loss of Martin Hinteregger, who had received a blow in training, in defense.
The goals fell somewhat happily. Before Lindström’s 1-0 goal, the first competitive goal of the newcomer in the Hessian jersey, opponent Lukas Kübler involuntarily spiked the ball into the Dane’s barrel. When Kostic made it 2-0, a Serbian free kick from the right half-field flew over all the players in the penalty area, hit the ground and then hit the left inner post into the net. “A lot has happened for us so far, not today,” said Freiburg’s Grifo. Above all, he himself had done a lot right in one scene.
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