Borussia Mönchengladbach – SC Freiburg: foal turn play thanks to a double pack from Thuram

Gladbach got off to a slightly better start and came to a dangerous conclusion within two minutes. First, an attempt by Alassane Pléa was blocked, then Lars Stindl missed with his far corner shot at Florian Müller.

Breisgauer, on the other hand, took the lead with their first chance when Ermedin Demirovic hit the cannon and crossed again for Roland Sallai, who completed the right corner (10th).

Borussia played significantly more, especially in the first half hour, but failed to play with first-class players, in contrast to the guests. After a Sallai cross, Lucas Höler missed and missed the chance to make it 2-0 (15th).

After a fantastic double with Demirovic, Sallai had a free run down the right and missed from a tight angle to Yann Sommer (22nd). After a corner from Christian Günter, Demirovic headed in, but also missed because of the Swiss goalkeeper (36th).

Shortly before the break, there was another great opportunity for the guests when Demirovic extended a Sallai cross to the far post, where Höler pulled the near-empty goal but still got stuck on Sommer’s leg (45 + 1). So it was 1-0 at halftime for Freiburg.

Also in the second half, Gladbach had a good chance just two minutes after the restart: a cross from Matthias Ginter found Pléa’s head, which was denied by Müller.

Six minutes later, Ginter crossed again from the right into the penalty area, where Stindl inadvertently passed the ball to Marcus Thuram, who completed the turn towards the goal (53rd).

Gladbach then turned the game around in seven minutes when Christoph Kramer sent Thuram to the barrel, who was dependent on Philipp Lienhart, circled Müller on the edge of the area and then pushed into the empty goal (60 °).

Gladbach then reportedly increased to 3-1 on an own goal from Baptiste Santamaria, who slipped a cross pass from Stindl into his own goal. However, the hit did not count because the assistant first complained of a non-existent offside position. However, during the review by the video assistant, he discovered a fault in the development of the action, so the blow did not count with reason (68).

From Freiburg there was nothing offensive in the entire second half until the 95th minute. But then Keven Schlotterbeck put a cross pass from Jonathan Schmid into the door and thus scored the supposed tie in the last second. At first, however, Höler was sidelined, which means that this coup was also denied. Gladbach won 2-1.

The voices of the game:

Marco Rose (Borussia Mönchengladbach coach): “Freiburg played a good first half, we were very open. It was much better after the break. We had to shake from behind again, that’s part of this year.”

Dennis Zakaria (Borussia Mönchengladbach): “In the first half we didn’t have our rhythm of play, that was much better in the second half. We played more and better together and then we scored these two goals.”

Christian Streich (SC Freiburg coach): “We are very disappointed. We played a good first half, we had many opportunities. A very bitter defeat for us. We are still not good enough to score the second goal. We have to accept it. Congratulations to Marco Rose.” and Mönchengladbach to victory “.

Christian Günter (SC Freiburg): “Very bitter. In the first half we have to take a 2-0 lead at least, we had a chance. I think it was a little bit up for grabs once. Then you catch a fake marble and then it’s a Game that nobody thought that we would lose after the first half. “

The tweet about the game:

That was remarkable – two completely different halves

After the first round, no one would have thought that SC Freiburg would only go dangerously ahead of goal in the 95th minute and lose the game at the end. Gladbach, meanwhile, was lucky to enter the break with only one goal behind.

In the end, Borussia played a very strong second half and really earned all three points. Still bitter about Breisgauer, who could have gone into halftime with a three-goal lead.

Statistics: 6

With his double today, Marcus Thuram scored his fifth and sixth goals of the season. He needs five more goals to surpass the ten from last season.