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FC Schalke 04 missed the long-awaited finale to their nearly unprecedented series of failures against SC Freiburg on Wednesday (16 December 2020). After a well-deserved 0: 2 (0: 0) against the Breisgauers, manager Manuel Baum’s team has been waiting 28 games for a Bundesliga success after another terrifying performance.
Tasmania Berlin’s negative record (31 matches without a win) is now threateningly approaching. Roland Sallai of Freiburg was the decisive man of the game with his first double in the Bundesliga in the 50th and 68th minutes. As the Freiburg team left the danger zone for the moment after their second consecutive victory and a total of four games without defeat , the “Royal Blues” will spend their holidays in the basement of the table. “We have to keep our heads up. When you’re down there, you don’t have a lot of courage and you quickly lose hope,” said Benjamin Stambouli of Schalke, but also demanded: “We have to bring more to the field.”
Weak first half for both
SC coach Christian Streich had included Hungarian Sallai in the starting line-up as the only new player compared to the 2-0 win against Arminia Bielefeld and he was right. Neither team implemented Stambouli’s lawsuit at first. They both took special care not to make mistakes.
Most of the time the game took place in the center of the field, where Schalke and Freiburg did nothing in a duel, but with many bad passes they gave the ball. No one could take advantage of it. There were only two shots on goal to score: Vicenzo Grifo in the eleventh minute for SC and Suat Serdar for Schalke (minute 36). Otherwise, almost nothing happened until the break.
Friborg effective against harmless Schalke players
The Freiburg team acted a bit more confident with the ball, but could only use it after the break. Five minutes after the restart, Sallai headed a good play over Grifo and Jonathan Schmid. After the residue, Schalke tried to react. When Sallai rose to 2-0 with his third goal of the season after a pass from Grifo, the game was decided. “We don’t allow anything. That’s why it’s a deserved victory,” Streich said.
With all the will that Schalke showed: What the hosts offered offensively was actually easy to defend and not suitable for the Bundesliga. The wounded Mark Uth was missing everywhere. Freiburg, on the other hand, were closer to 3-0: substitute Ermedin Demirovic (90 + 1), who missed because of Schalke goalkeeper Ralf Fährmann, lost the best opportunity.
Schalke with the next winery duel
Schalke now hope to celebrate the long-awaited victory against promoted Bielefeld on Saturday (December 19, 2020) before the Bundesliga enters the Christmas holidays. Otherwise, S04 threatens almost a full year without success in the league. The last Bundesliga win so far was on January 19 against Mönchengladbach. To do this, the “miners” have to significantly increase offensively. A day later, Freiburg welcomes Hertha BSC to a duel between the neighbors at the table.
Those: sportschau.de
