ATUBOLU sets SCF record
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No victory for Marco Rose, who is strongly criticized: accompanied by the debates for his impending end, the coach with RB Leipzig has to be satisfied with a 0-0 (0-0) at SC Freiburg. In the explosive top game of the Bundesliga, the idea of the guests from Saxony was not enough for the longed-for second second round victory.
The duel had been traded as a possible final for the rose. “If Marco Rose is opened for months, this can only be influenced by results. I know that too, ”the 48-year-old said before. “The best answer would be a victory in Freiburg, then we would have a few days of rest.”
In the table, Leipzig continues to be the sixth of two points behind the Breisgauer (5th) and once again missed it, with a success you can make up points in the struggle for the champions League ranks. The disappointing offensive without Esprit of the eleven of Rose did not speak for a new royal class qualification.
The Freiburg of coaching colleagues Julian Schuster have been unbeaten for six games and are increasingly allowed to dream of the European Cup. For the sixth time they stayed without a goal – and caused two club records: for the team and for goalkeeper Noah Atubolu personally.
In the tense situation, Rose had set an unusual preparation measure with a short training camp in Salzburg. “It was important to me that we come away from the (training area) that we didn’t start sipping our coffee there every early in the same trott and maybe also having to do ourselves,” he argued at “Sky”.
For his professionals Lukas Klostermann and Christoph Baumgartner, however, the trip did not end. The duo Rose was not available at short notice with gastrointestinal problems.
In the Europapark Stadium, the coach followed in front of 32,900 spectators on the sidelines, such as its eleven came to the first degrees. After a corner, El Chadaille Bitshiabu came to the header, shortly afterwards Benjamin Sesko tried it. But the attack efforts remained too harmless. Or a Freiburg defender blocked just in time.
Rose tried to shout his team forward. But the top attackers Sesko and Loïs Openda also did not prevent Freiburg’s goalkeeper Atubolu from the club record. In the middle of the first half, the 22-year-old surpassed the 509 minutes that ex-professional Richard Golz once did not allow a goal.
The SC Defenseive and Atubolu have been presenting in top form for weeks. The keeper was not seriously challenged by the guests for a long time. Penal space scenes with scoring opportunities were a rarity, there was little flow of the game. On the other hand, Lucas Höler had the only noteworthy chance to put the hosts in the lead in the early quarter of an hour.
Even after the change of sides, the two goalkeepers Atubolu and Péter Gulácsi already spent more strenuous evenings. After about an hour, Gulácsi had to stretch to prevent Höler’s header. A distance from RB defender Lutsharel Geertruida just passed.
