Goals
- 1-0 Sebastiaan Bornauw (42): So frustrating! Ritsu Doan gets forward down the right and sends a low cross into the penalty area, where VfL centre-back Bornauw diverts the ball into his own net, leaving Koen Casteels wrong-footed.
- 1-1 Maximilian Arnold (82): The captain curls a free-kick over the wall and in off the left-hand post to level the score.
- 1-2 Maxence Lacroix (90): Incredible! The Wolves turn the game around as Lacroix lets fly from distance, his powerful drive arrowing high into the net.
Reaction
Ralph Hasenhüttl: “We were lucky to still be in the game after the first half. A lot of the things we set out to do didn’t work, so we needed to make some adjustments during the interval. I think we made the right decisions, both in terms of personnel and tactics. We were able to exert more pressure up front and managed to keep Freiburg away from our goal more. We showed our true colours. Freiburg’s missed penalty gave us an extra energy boost, too. The team showed the desire to take an important step towards avoiding relegation. Maxence’s thunderbolt was the perfect expression of everything we tried to do in the second half. The boys should be really proud of themselves.”
Christian Streich: “We played well – it doesn’t get much better than that. It was one of our best home games in the Bundesliga this season. But then sometimes things happen in football that you just can’t explain. Everything that could go wrong did go wrong. What matters now is how the team deals with it. We won’t go around complaining; we’ll focus on our football so that we can produce a good performance in Cologne and keep going.”
Line-ups and stats
SC Freiburg: Atubolu – Sildillia, Keitel, Gulde – Doan, – Eggestein (90‘+5 Muslija), Höfler, Günter (90‘+2 Weißhaupt), Sallai, Grifo (72‘ Makengo) – Gregoritsch (72‘ Höler)
Subs: Müller (GK), Szalai, Adamu, Breunig, Philipp
VfL Wolfsburg: Casteels – Bornauw, Lacroix, Zesiger (46’ Paredes) – Fischer (46‘ Maehle), Gerhardt, Arnold, Vranckx (69‘ Svanberg), Baku, Tomas (46‘ Wimmer) – Wind (90‘+5 Behrens)
Subs: Pervan (GK), Jenz, Kaminski, Majer
Goals: 1-0 Bornauw (42’/own goal), 1-1 Arnold (82’), 1-2 Lacroix (90’)
Yellow cards: Gregorisch, Sallai, Makengo, Höfler, Höler / Arnold, Bornauw
Red card: Sildillia
Memorable moment: Sallai misses from the spot (86‘)
Referee: Frank Willenborg (Osnabrück)
Attendance: 32,800 at Europa-Park-Stadion, Freiburg