The best comes last. It’s the last Bundesliga game before the World Cup break. It is the best game of the second to third place. It’s the duel of Bayern’s chasers, oh what, you have to write big, the BAYERN PURSUERS, which is Sunday at 5.30pm (DAZN). It is the meeting of the two great teams of the calendar year 2022: it is not Dortmund, Leipzig or anyone else, but SC Freiburg against 1. FC Union.
Had Urs Fischer predicted such a constellation before matchday one of the 15th league round, he probably would have garnered a contemptuous shake of the head. Which obviously the Union coach wouldn’t do because he’s too polite for that. But it also comes as a surprise to the 56-year-old soccer coach, who actually thought he’d experienced everything he had to do with the ball. “Whoever told me that would have had to do a lot of persuading, he needed good arguments,” said the Swiss.
Freiburg and 1. FC Union go hand in hand
Both teams have provided good arguments over the last few months, domestically and internationally. Because the Breisgauers have not only stirred up the German elite class, they are also in the round of 16 of the Europa League as group winners. So there, where the iron still wants to go and I have to eliminate Ajax Amsterdam for this.
It’s amazing what these two clubs can do. Like two small conspiratorial Gallic villages, they never stop resisting the invaders. With a Christian Streich and an Urs Fischer as a mixture of Methusalix (veteran) and Miraculix (druid magician). With a stadium that is far too small and therefore far less money than the competition.
Whereby the Breisgauers – as a ten-year member of the Bundesliga, who keeps coming back even after the few relegations – are a little ahead of the Iron Ones with their new building with a capacity of 34,700 spectators. On the other hand, the “Cheffe vons Janze”, the Majestix to be clear, has been in office in Berlin for much longer. Dirk Zingler has been in charge of the Köpenickers since 2004, Eberhard Fugmann only succeeded Fritz Keller in October of the previous year, who had moved to the DFB and was unsuccessful there. What they both have in common is that they don’t push themselves to the fore in day-to-day business, but let the experts do their job. Perhaps one of the secrets of the success of the two clubs.
2100 fans accompany their 1. FC Union
2100 Union fans want to give the farewell show of the Iron this year. Although the return journey from Baden will be complicated given the delayed kick-off. But before a month of union abstinence and given the situation at the table, you just want to be there.
Incidentally, the latter no longer elicits an incredulous shake of the old pilot Fischer’s head, but rather a smile. Even if the standings don’t lie – you know, second to third – for him it’s not a match between two pursuers from Bayern. But a Bundesliga points match in which his Köpenickers are entitled to make the most of it. And then in the new year, he’ll hopefully have 30 points on his account, to continue to scare away the competition. Like a small, indomitable Gallic village.
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