SC Freiburg is a candidate for a place in the Champions League because it appreciates the banalities of football. The 1. FSV Mainz 05 also has opportunities because more well -known competition wants but can too rarely.
A good two thirds of the 2024/25 Bundesliga season are played. It looks like that, especially after the demonstration of power against Eintracht Frankfurt, as if FC Bayern would once again be champions. If someone could intervene, the Bayer Leverkusen would be, but the defending champion already has eight points behind Bayern.
Eight points also separate the third in the table from Frankfurt and the ninth from Mönchengladbach. Since the SC Freiburg, in turn, only has five points more than the Gladbacher, in the last third of the season a lot indicates a tight race with numerous teams for the coveted places in the Champions League.
Dortmund talks quietly of catch -up hunt
In addition, there is Borussia Dortmund, which only has 32 points as tenth in the account, but after the clear 6: 0 against 1. FC Union Berlin, at least speaks quietly about a possible chase.
Some want, but cannot currently
The 23rd matchday also showed that some want, but currently cannot.
RB Leipzig? The team of coach Marco Rose just took one point after she had already returned 0-2 against the relegation candidate 1. FC Heidenheim.
VfB Stuttgart? The team of coach Sebastian Hoeneß only scored one point at the relegation -prone TSG Hoffenheim, although it was highly superior and had a good chance of scoring more than just one goal.
VfL Wolfsburg? The team of coach Ralph Hasenhüttl did not go beyond a draw against VfL Bochum who had traveled to the Mittelland Canal as the bottom of the table.
Schuster equally successful with a difficult heir
The teams who are trusted because of their economic potency or quality of the squad weaken the qualification for the Champions League. Therefore, others access – although Eintracht Frankfurt is significantly less surprising than SC Freiburg, who presented Julian Schuster a new coach with Julian Schuster last summer, who followed Christian Streich and thus a club legend.
The Freiburgers understood better than all other teams that a victory against Holstein Kiel brings as many points as one against FC Bayern.
1-0 against Bochum, 1-0 against Heidenheim, 1-0 at St. Pauli
They also understood against VfL Bochum, 1. FC Heidenheim and FC St. Pauli that a goal is enough to win when none is collected. The SC Freiburg really had it against Werder Bremen – 5: 0.
Only a defeat from the category “shouldn’t have been”
Despite this clear success, the SCF still has a negative goal difference. The explanation for this lies in the specialty of the Freiburg described, so much appreciated the banalities of the business. All 39 points won Schuster’s team in games against teams that were behind them before the 23rd matchday.
In these games, SC Freiburg only suffered three defeats, and those at VfB Stuttgart and Borussia Dortmund might not be factored in, but hardly surprised. Only the 0: 3 home defeat against FC St. Pauli is on the list “that shouldn’t have been”.
Top team that doesn’t keep up with the top teams
From five games against Bayern, Leverkusen, Frankfurt and the Leipziger, Leipziger, the Leipziger after the 22nd matchday, the sports club did not get a point – with a goal difference of 4:16.
The SC Freiburg is a top team that does not keep up with the other top teams, but is so constant the points against other teams that Borussia Dortmund, which lost in both Kiel and VfL Bochum, blessed with envy.
Three more victories than Wolfsburg and Dortmund
Another proof of how much the Freiburg banalities and simple mathematics appreciate: they won twelve times and thus more often than well -known competition – twice more than the Leipziger, twice more than the Stuttgart, even three times more than the Wolfsburg and Dortmund. A victory gives more points than two draws, and the Freiburg of them only allowed themselves three of them this season.
There are certain parallelities for the 1st FSV Mainz 05, who won eleven games and has only five draws. However, the team of coach Bo Henriksen has a significantly better goal difference than SC Freiburg with 37:24 and also has the ability to beat top teams: it added the only defeat of the season to FC Bayern and won a week later at Eintracht Frankfurt.
The 1. FSV Mainz 05 is a candidate for the Champions League – whether he wants or not.