Bundesliga: Freiburg standard result against Augsburg – Sport

With their first win after three games without success, SC Freiburg has moved closer to the European Cup ranks in the Bundesliga. At the end of the sixth match day, the Breisgauer team won 2-0 (1-0) at home against FC Augsburg and are now in eighth place. The Augsburg team, who recently achieved their first win of the season, are in 14th place after their third defeat.

Vincenzo Grifo with a penalty kick (5th) and Philipp Lienhart after a corner (56th) scored for Freiburg’s sixth win in a row against FCA, and the defense, which came under criticism at the start of the season, also impressed before the games in the Conference League against West Ham United and in the Bundesliga against Bayern Munich. FC Augsburg, on the other hand, remains pointless away from home. The trend with only one win from the last nine league games across the seasons is worrying.

A clumsy foul in the penalty area gives Freiburg the lead

Freiburg’s game this season is “still a bit tough,” complained sports director Klemens Hartenbach before kick-off, “last year we had more ease in our attacking actions.” But “the knot could unravel at any moment”. When warming up, the sports club’s players wore Christian Günter’s jerseys; the captain suffered a setback with an infection after his arm operation – which meant he was out until the end of the year.

Even without its leader, Freiburg got off to a lightning start. Iago clumsily kicked over the clever Roland Sallai in the penalty area, Grifo coldly sank the penalty into the corner of the goal. But Augsburg shook itself quickly, things went back and forth in the early stages. After Yannik Keitel’s disastrous back pass, Philip Tietz missed the quick equalizer in a one-on-one with SC goalkeeper Noah Atubolu (9th).

Long balls – neither team could think of anything else in the second half

However, after the furious first ten minutes, the game completely died down in front of 33,134 spectators. Augsburg pressed man to man all over the pitch, nipping many Freiburg combinations in the bud. The Bavarian Swabians could hardly do anything with the ball. So there was a lot of idle time until the break.

After the change, little else happened. Both teams hit a lot of long passes, then went for the second ball – that wasn’t productive. Consequently, a standard was needed, Lienhart nodded in a corner from the strong Grifo. Former Freiburg player Ermedin Demirovic also missed Augsburg’s best chance after a corner (67′). Sven Michel’s (80th) goal didn’t count because it was offside.