Europa League: “It can’t happen to us” – Freiburg loses within the final minute | EUROtoday

After the exit from the DFB Cup, SC Freiburg can be threatened with a semi-final knockout within the Europa League. The Breisgauers sadly misplaced the primary leg at Sporting Braga 1:2 (1:1) and go into the decisive reunion on Thursday (9 p.m. / RTL) in Freiburg with a mortgage.

Mario Dorgeles scored the profitable aim for the hosts within the second minute of added time. The bitter finish to a sport that Freiburg had largely had below management till then. “It’s very annoying, this can’t happen to us,” mentioned coach Julian Schuster.

However, from SC’s standpoint, the sport began very poorly: the Bundesliga membership fell behind early on resulting from Demir Tiknaz (eighth). Freiburg then rapidly got here again via Vincenzo Grifo (sixteenth) and was capable of thank Noah Atubolu earlier than the break. The keeper fended off a controversial penalty from Rodrigo Zalazar (forty fifth + 2).

With Eintracht Frankfurt, just one German workforce has been capable of win the successor competitors to the UEFA Cup. The semi-final is already historic for Freiburg – particularly for striker Igor Matanovic, based on his personal assertion, it’s “the biggest game of my career”. The goalscorer mentioned he felt “healthy nervousness”.

However, a special image emerged on the pitch, as Freiburg’s protection was put below stress early on. Braga had certified in a livid second leg at Betis Sevilla and continued this efficiency. Pau Victor missed the lead (fifth), however simply three minutes later Tiknaz celebrated.

Grifo finds it finest

Freiburg’s reply adopted promptly. The visitors benefited from a misunderstanding within the build-up sport. Jan-Niklas Beste discovered the operating Grifo, who induced the primary of two setbacks for Braga. Less than ten minutes later, captain Ricardo Horta needed to depart the sphere injured.

The sports activities membership made a comparatively massive variety of errors within the passing sport in entrance of the eyes of round 2,000 touring followers and solely not often managed to set an accent. But Freiburg’s goalkeeper Atubolu was hardly examined exterior of the penalty after conceding an early aim. But he did not lower a very good determine for the decisive aim; earlier than the aim he let a shot bounce previous his protection. Not a basic goalkeeping mistake, however Atubolo wasn’t fully uninvolved both.