Lautern season 1999/00 unmatched
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With a goal difference of 46:49, there is no flowerpot in the Bundesliga in the case of normal cases. In recent years, teams with a slightly negative difference mostly have ended up in the midfield of the table. With this yield, SC Freiburg is currently in fourth place and thus on Champions League course-a team with a negative goal difference at the end of the season was never better placed.
The minimalists from Breisgau won ten of the 15 season victories with one goal. Only in the 5-0 against Werder Bremen on the 23rd matchday and in the 3-0 against 1. FC Heidenheim on matchday 4, the team of coach Julian Schuster clearly won, played five times 1-0. So it is possible that despite the league’s twelfth best offensive, a placement could jump out in the top four. For comparison: Holstein Kiel scored two more goals in 17th place than Freiburg.
It is also part of the truth that the sports club managed to limit the goals to a few games. Almost half of all the goal was collected The goalkeeper Noah Atubolu (22) and its representative Florian Müller (27) held the zero in total – but eight teams in the league have a better defensive.
Best Bundesliga placement with a negative goal difference: Hertha BSC won 2x top-6
A placement in the top four of the Bundesliga with a negative goal difference would be a novelty in the history of the German Football House. The 1. FC Kaiserslautern achieved the best performance so far in the 1999/2000 season when just 50 points were enough for fifth place at 54 goals and 59 goals. In the same year Hertha BSC also achieved sixth place with a goal difference of -7, as well as the Berliners managed this in 2016/17 with the difference of -4.
Since Borussia Dortmund (51 points) and RB Leipzig (50) are behind Freiburg (52) this season, two games against Holstein Kiel and Eintracht Frankfurt may have to be found in the remaining two games for the sports club. In the case of narrow successes with just one goal difference, even the SGE (56 points) could be displaced despite a negative goal difference of third place.