Freiburg (dpa) – “Take off Bayern’s lederhosen!”, It echoed through the Europa-Park Stadium. Just a few minutes after the 3: 1 (2: 0) against SpVgg Greuther Fürth, the fans of SC Freiburg loudly formulated the order to their professionals for the game in Munich in a week on Saturday. Unlike in previous years, Baden will not travel to Bayern as a blatant outsider, but as third in the table and as the only team in German professional football that has not yet lost this season.
“After a victory like this, you are of course totally euphoric,” said Freiburg’s goalscorer Nicolas Höfler on Sky. “But we know where we’re going.” Against the record champions “a lot has to fit” so that the fans’ wish for the next three points can come true. “We are extremely happy,” added sports director Jochen Saier. “This is a special situation for us.”
By defeating Fürth, the sports club set a club record. He last played ten Bundesliga games without defeat in a row in spring 2012. An own goal by Simon Asta (20th minute) paved the way for the Breisgauer. Höfler headed (39th) and Vincenzo Grifo (79th) with a penalty kick scored the other Freiburg goals in front of 31,500 spectators. The Fürth, for whom only Jamie Leweling (74.) scored, conceded their tenth defeat in the eleventh competitive game of the season and are still at the bottom of the table with one point. Only 1. FC Saarbrücken 1963/1964 had such a weak record at this point in a season in the Bundesliga.
“All in all, there were too many individual stories to survive in the Bundesliga and especially here in Freiburg,” said Fürth’s coach Stefan Leitl, referring to the mistakes his team made when conceding goals. However, their “morals”, their “commitment” and their high “willingness to run” keep him hoping for the turnaround.
However, the climber is also plagued by corona worries. On Friday, the club had reported five positive cases in its professional squad. He doesn’t give names. In Freiburg there were only 17 players from Fürth. Marco Meyerhöfer, Maximilian Bauer and Jeremy Dudziak who had a cold, who had been in the starting line-up in the 1: 4 defeat at RB Leipzig a week earlier, were not part of the squad this time.
The guests were able to keep the game open for 20 minutes – then they got themselves into trouble. Defender Asta wanted to clear a cross from Freiburg’s Lucas Höler on his Bundesliga debut for Fürth and headed it into his own goal from five meters. Before the break, Höfler headed a corner to make it 2-0. The ball jumped from the post to Funk and from there into the mesh – again an unlucky goal for SpVgg and already their 26th in the league this season. Number 27 followed later.
In the early stages of the second half, Freiburg goalkeeper Mark Flekken parried an attempt by Julian Green (49th) – apart from that, the guests did not come together offensively. Leweling’s goal, who shortened after a fine cross from Branimir Hrgota from the left, suddenly put them back in the game. But only a few minutes. After Funk got the charging Höler off his feet, referee Felix Brych decided on a penalty for Freiburg. Grifo used him to decide, hammered the ball into the right angle – and thus initiated the party in the stands.
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