SC Freiburg 1-5 Leipzig: SC Freiburg failed to reach the final of the DFB-Pokal on Tuesday evening. The club conceded no less than four goals in the first half with goalkeeper Mark Flek under the crossbar, RB Leipzig turned out to be much too strong.
Flek has a very bad evening with Freiburg and misses the cup final
It was the big Dani Olmo show in Freiburg. The Spaniard opened the score with his head in the thirteenth minute and then delivered three assists in a row. Fleks saw one attack after another from Leipzig coming towards him and so had to give up four goals.
In the second half, Freiburg got to play more football, because Josko Gvardiol got a red card after just under an hour for putting down a player who had broken through. Due to the considerable backlog, it was no longer a game despite the red card. Michael Gregoritsch provided some entertainment in the stands by heading in the 1-4 fifteen minutes before the end.
It may have cheered the supporters up a bit, as the match had been briefly halted a few minutes earlier after Leipzig reserve player André Silva was hit by a coin thrown from the audience during his warm-up. But it was another low point on a painful cup night for Freiburg. It also became 1-5 via a late penalty kick from Dominik Szoboszlai. Leipzig will go to the final (June 3) and will play against VfB Stuttgart or Eintracht Frankfurt in the final.
Freiburg through the dust after coin incident and fans on the field in cup debacle
Freiburg had a Tuesday night to quickly forget. They were outplayed by RB Leipzig in the semi-finals of the cup tournament. The biggest frustration, however, was in the behavior of the fans.
It was an ugly scene. Portuguese Leipzig striker André Silva was warming up when a fan let himself go. The Freiburg supporter threw a coin towards the striker and hit him on the head. Silva went to the ground, after which he became furious. A scuffle ensued, while Freiburg supporters climbed over the boarding. Meanwhile, brawls were taking place in the stands. It happened after the fans already took action against Red Bull, the owner of Leipzig, before kick-off.
After the crazy fans were pushed back into the stands, thanks in part to the help of the Freiburg players, the match continued. At that moment the damage was already done, because Leipzig had already taken a 0-4 lead at half-time. “This does not belong in a stadium,” was the verdict of coach Christian Streich afterwards. “We lost, Leipzig was better, that’s all that happened,” he said to Sky about the importance of a game of football.
Technical director Jochen Saier apologized for the events in the stands. “We can only apologize. We’re out, emotions can run high, but it’s just one game we lost,” he told Kicker.
