SC Freiburg surprisingly lost points in the fight for the Champions League. At SpVgg Greuther Fürth it was only enough for a 0:0.
Christian Streich stared at the pitch, his players leaned on their knees, exhausted and disappointed, and the supporters suddenly fell silent. When the final whistle sounded in the Ronhof in Fürth, SC Freiburg’s 0-0 draw against the bottom team at the bottom of the table initially felt like a defeat in the fight for participation in the Champions League.
“We’re not satisfied, we came here to win, but the ball just didn’t want to go in today,” said captain Christian Günter on Sky. Roland Sallai (13′) and Janik Haberer (66′) each hit the post and crossbar – that’s all the guests could do against the aggressively defending SpVgg Greuther Fürth. Freiburg can therefore be pushed out of fourth place by RB Leipzig on Sunday.
Lucky for Freiburg: In the four-way battle for the premier class places three and four, fellow competitor TSG Hoffenheim (0: 3 at Hertha BSC) also had to lose feathers, so Nico Schlotterbeck, who was nominated again for the national team, remarked with a grin: “Maybe he’ll help us Point in the end yes.” More, he admitted, wasn’t possible this time: “We weren’t good enough to get three points here, to be honest.”
For long stretches, Freiburg found no means against a doggedly defending and occasionally dangerous cloverleaf. “It was difficult to find holes,” said Günter, but his fellow defender Schlotterbeck didn’t just look for the reasons with the disgusting opponent: “We played uncleanly, we pissed ourselves off too often,” said the defender without make-up.
Freiburg is struggling against low-lying Fürth
The people of Fürth, who obviously had put up with their crushing defeat six days earlier against RB Leipzig (1: 6) very well, were extensively celebrated by their supporters for their great fighting spirit after the game, but the point is again not enough in the fight against relegation . “It’s not a giant step to keep up, we have to be honest,” said Marco Meyerhöfer. In fact, the deficit in 16th place grew to eleven points with seven games left by the end of the season.
The game was characterized by many duels and not very attractive. Freiburg found it difficult to set up a promising combination game against the aggressive hosts. Fürth showed a few good approaches offensively, but only had one good chance: Timothy Tillmann failed from a tight angle at Freiburg goalkeeper Mark Flekken (28th).
