SC Freiburg II can still win. Thanks to a second late goal, coach Thomas Stamm’s team won despite double bad luck at FC Ingolstadt.
Yann Sturm’s late equalizer (89′) and Maximilian Breunig’s injury-time winner (90’+3) gave SC Freiburg II a 3-2 win at FC Ingolstadt. For coach Thomas Stamm’s team it was the first three points of the current year. Breunig had already shot Freiburg into the lead early on (6′), but Sebastian Grönning (19′) and Jannik Mause (45’+2, foul penalty) turned the game around at the break.
Freiburg is denied a penalty
Doubly bitter for Freiburg, because immediately before the equalizer, Ingolstadt defender Leon Guwara had played the ball with his hand in his own penalty area. So there should have been a penalty for the Breisgau team. The penalty that Mause took just before half-time to give Ingolstadt a 2-1 lead was also a bad decision.
SC Freiburg II lost 2-1 at FC Ingolstadt.
But after 57 minutes, Freiburg’s Ingolstadt clumsiness came to the rescue. In a rather harmless situation, Bryang Kayo received a second yellow card after a tactical foul and was consequently sent off the pitch with a yellow-red card. For a long time it still looked as if Freiburg would bite their teeth against Ingolstadt’s defensive bulwark. But in the final phase, Sturm and Breunig decided the game in Breisgauer’s favor.
New hope in the relegation battle?
The path to staying in the league remains difficult. Freiburg II is still at the bottom of the table with 13 points and is at least twelve points behind the first non-relegation place – because Waldhof Mannheim and Hallesche FC have the opportunity to increase the gap again on Sunday. Next week (Sunday, February 25th, 7:30 p.m.) the Freiburg team will host promotion rivals Waldhof Mannheim. Ingolstadt has to play football against SSV Ulm 1846 on Saturday (February 24th, 2 p.m.).
Broadcast on Saturday, February 17, 2024, 5:30 p.m., SWR Sport, SWR
