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22:10
Long ball to Petersen, who puts the ball on his right foot with the acceptance and just pulls it off. His powerful shot from 20 meters hits the crossbar! Even Manuel Riemann would have been powerless.
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22:06
Yellow card for Thomas Reis (VfL Bochum)
The guests’ coach complained again and again and got a well-deserved yellow card.
77
22:06
Yellow card for Roland Sallai (SC Freiburg)
Sallai sees a yellow card for a tactical foul here.
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22:05
Both teams change vigorously. There is now a lot of fresh wind on the lawn, but the flow of the game is also enormously interrupted.
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22:04
Substitution at VfL Bochum: Jordi Osei-Tutu
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22:04
Substitution at VfL Bochum: Jacek Góralski
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22:04
Substitution at VfL Bochum: Philipp Hofmann
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22:04
Substitution at VfL Bochum: Takuma Asano
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22:03
Substitution at SC Freiburg: Noah Weißhaupt
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22:03
Substitution at SC Freiburg: Vincenzo Grifo
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22:03
Woo-yeong Jeong comes on at SC Freiburg
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22:03
Substitution at SC Freiburg: Ritsu Dōan
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22:02
Substitution at SC Freiburg: Nils Petersen
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22:02
Substitution at SC Freiburg: Michael Gregoritsch
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22:02
Now the guests have to thank their keeper for not making it 2-0! A deflected shot on goal by Grifo lands on Gregoritsch, who fails from close range due to a great reflex by Riemann and despairs with his follow-up shot on the post. From there the ball flies back to Grifo, but his header is no problem for Riemann!
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22:00
The game now takes a little break again and splashes along. Can Bochum come back here and launch a final offensive?
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21:55
Bochum almost equalized out of nowhere! From the right Holtmann pulls into the middle and simply finishes. His shot takes a wonderful trajectory, ticks once, but then smacks the post! Lucky for the home side!
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21:51
And this statistic should now be a little higher in favor of Freiburg. Doan makes a strong impact on the right and brings the ball in the middle. There Gregoritsch reaches the ball with a lunge and doesn’t get enough pressure in the shot. Otherwise it would have been 2-0.
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21:49
A small insert for the statistics friends: In terms of xGoals, it is currently 3.44 to 0.41 for the hosts. The missed penalty and the triple chance from round one certainly also play a major role.
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21:47
It’s raining a little less now. In any case, this circumstance increases the chances that the whole thing will run smoothly here. Before that, the ball hadn’t rolled easily over the lawn in one place or another.
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21:42
After his yellow card in round one, Stafylidis had just received his last warning. Leaving him on the pitch would have been too risky here.
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21:41
Substitution at VfL Bochum: Saidy Janko
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21:41
Substitution at VfL Bochum: Kostas Stafylidis
51.
21:40
Freiburg are awarded a free kick, which is of course a matter for Grifo. However, the goal scorer flicks the ball just past the post!
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21:37
Tooor for SC Freiburg, 1-0 through Vincenzo Grifo
This is not possible! Riemann initially saves Grifo’s penalty, then parries the Italian’s follow-up shot in an outstanding manner. However, his back team cannot prevent Grifo from the second margin either. This time the ball wriggles in the net.
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21:37
Penalty missed by Vincenzo Grifo, SC Freiburg
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21:37
Yellow card for Manuel Riemann (VfL Bochum)
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21:37
The weather takes the first toll! A cross from the left would actually be easy prey for Manuel Riemann, but the wet ball slips out of his hands. Riemann, like Sallai, followed suit and cleared Freiburg. Fritz initially lets it continue, but after intervention by the VAR he decides penalty kick.
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21:34
Go on! Both teams come out of the break with the same staff! The bad weather, which has already caused a puddle on the lawn in one place or another, is also unchanged. It will be exciting to see how the space conditions will affect the match.
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21:33
Kick-off 2nd half
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21:20
Mid-term conclusion:
At the break, SC Freiburg and VfL Bochum are still tied 0-0. If you look at the first 20 minutes, this draw is absolutely fine, but afterwards Freiburg deserved an opening goal here. The hosts took over after an unbelievable triple chance in the 22nd minute and dominated the game from then on. A few more chances could have made it 1-0 here, but Bochum defended it quite well overall. However, Thomas Reis’ men have to relieve the pressure a little more, otherwise it will be difficult to take anything with them.
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21:12
Yellow card for Kostas Stafylidis (VfL Bochum)
The left-back comes a decent step too late against Dōan and puts down the offensive man. For this he sees the first yellow card of the game.
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21:10
Cloudburst in Freiburg! It’s pouring rain in the Black Forest. This hasn’t had a major effect on the game yet, but should it rain, it could turn into a water fight given the current low levels.
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21:05
If things get dangerous at VfL, then it’s over the nimble Asano, who is now being sent on the journey again. This time he gets the ball on the inside right, but puts the ball well past the far post.
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21:01
Sallai provides a treat here with a great side kick. The ball doesn’t actually take a bad trajectory, but then it misses the box by a meter.
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21:01
Almost half an hour has now been played and the game has now tipped in the direction of Freiburg and not just because of the big chance a few minutes ago. The last ten minutes clearly go to the people of Breisgau.
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20:54
Bochum wobbles! A corner on the near post actually extends Ginter optimally in the direction of the second post. There, however, friend and foe miss the bullet!
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20:53
This is not possible! It has to be 1-0 here, but Freiburg fails twice! Gregoritsch initially fails because of Riemann, as does Sallai with the follow-up shot from a short distance. And Hofler? He fails because of himself, because from five meters he fires the ball completely free of the goal.
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20:49
Take a deep breath from the guests’ point of view! Heintz wants to head a long ball back to his goalkeeper, but has reckoned without Dōan. However, the offensive man cannot get the ball past Riemann.
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20:47
After things got a little wilder in the meantime, the game is now taking a little break. The teams hold the ball a little longer when they own the ball.
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20:43
And now Mark Flekken has to grab back again! With a bit of luck, a through ball will reach Takuma Asano, who goes into the penalty area from the left side. The Japanese has to finish with his left foot, but fails because of the strongly reacting Mark Flekken.
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20:40
This same Mark Flekken now plays a great long ball to Günter, who suddenly appears in front. The left-back wants to put the ball over Riemann, but fails at the Bochum goalkeeper!
9.
20:39
After a corner kick, the ball comes back to Stöger, who plays into Holtmann’s run. He tries to finish from a tight angle, but Flekken is on the post.
5.
20:36
Quiet start from both sides. The teams are still playing with a lot of long balls, so far there hasn’t been any combination football to celebrate.
1.
20:31
Here we go! Freiburg starts and that in the red home kit. The guests from Bochum lined up in dark blue.
20:21
In Freiburg there is only one change compared to the previous week. Keitel replaces the injured Eggestein in midfield. The whole thing is different in Bochum, where coach Thomas Reis brings four new players. Ordens, Janko, Förster and Hofmann are no longer there compared to the bankruptcy against Bayern, Masovic, Stafylidis, Govalski and Holtmann move into the starting line-up.
20:06
Incidentally, the game in the evening at SC Freiburg is not the only highlight of the day. In the morning, all eyes were on Nyon, where the Europa League groups were drawn. The sports club faces Sporting Braga, Malmö FF and Union St Gilloise here.
20:02
The situation at VfL Bochum is much worse. After the men from the Ruhr area had to record a few painful departures in the summer, VfL was seen by many as the number one relegation team. At least the 18th place in the table supports this assumption so far. However, they did well on the first two matchdays against Mainz and Hoffenheim and only narrowly lost both times. In the previous week, VfL then got under the wheels against unleashed playing Bayern with 0:7. A bankruptcy from which it is important to recover as soon as possible. Best today!
19:51
SC Freiburg fans have seen three completely different games this Bundesliga season so far. On the one hand there was the clear 4-0 opening win at FC Augsburg. The bitter 1:3 against BVB followed, which was actually well under control for over an hour and then had to be let go after the unnecessary equalization. In the previous week there was a 1-0 win at VfB Stuttgart, which ensured a satisfactory result of six points from the first three games.
19:43
Good evening and welcome to Bundesliga matchday number four! As usual, the weekend will be opened with a Friday game and today SC Freiburg and VfL Bochum will play it. As usual, the game starts at 8:30 p.m.