Kristijan Jakić and Igor Matanović marked the Bundesliga match.
Croats marked the last meeting of the 18th round of the German Bundesliga between Augsburga and Freiburg, which ended with a division of points (2:2).
Interestingly, all four goals were scored in the second half, the home team was 2:0 on the scoreboard after only four minutes of play, but Freiburg managed to get back into the game completely.
Augsburg took the lead in the 47th minute with a goal by Alexis Claude-Maurice, and just two minutes later Elvis Rexhbecaj scored for 2:0. He reduced Yito Suzuki in the 59th minute, and three minutes later the Croatian football representative equalized Igor Matanović.
The guests took a corner, Johan Manzambi headed in, the home striker Michael Gregoritsch blocked the ball with his hand on the goal line, but only to Matanović who scored to make it 2:2. Gregoritsch received a yellow card for handball, and if Matanović had not scored to make it 2:2, he would have received a red card.
It was Matanović’s fifth goal of the season, his fourth in the Bundesliga, and his second in the last three games. In the 78th minute, the Croatian striker once again shook the opponent’s net, but the goal was disallowed because the ball crossed the goal line at the beginning of the action.
You can see why they disallowed Matanović’s second goal here.
Kristijan Jakić played the first half for the home team, but during the break he stayed in the dressing room due to a bizarre injury. When returning to the field, he injured himself in the tunnel, grabbed a muscle and sat on the stairs.
You can see Igor Matanović’s goal here.
