Bundesliga
After a dream volley goal – Freiburg, St. Pauli plunges into a historic crisis
Updated on November 9, 2025 – 5:35 p.mReading time: 2 minutes
SC Freiburg celebrates an important home win. The negative series against St. Pauli, on the other hand, has reached historic proportions.
SC Freiburg defeated newly promoted FC St. Pauli 2-1 and celebrated its third win of the season in the Bundesliga. The opponent’s negative series, however, reached historic proportions. Hamburg suffered their seventh defeat in a row on matchday 10. The club’s negative record from 1997 and 2011 has now been set.
The Japanese Yuito Suzuki with his first Bundesliga goal (40th) and Maximilian Eggestein (50th) scored for the Breisgau team, who took three points again after five league games without a win. After the international break, the SC has to play against leaders Bayern Munich. Pauli remains deep in the table cellar. Louis Oppie’s goal (69th) didn’t change that. Hamburg hadn’t scored in 488 minutes.
“It’s about the basics that have made us strong. We need stability,” said Pauli’s coach Alexander Blessin shortly before kick-off on DAZN: “We want to show a reaction.” Sports director Andreas Bornemann made it clear that there was still a “way to go” for the Hamburg team to reach a crisis. Freiburg coach Julian Schuster said that “the many draws” were annoying him: “We have to force the missing percentage points.”
Christian Günter should help with this. The captain, who has long since lost his regular place, was in the starting line-up and thus became Freiburg’s new record player. Full-back Günter has played 441 competitive games for the sports club since Sunday – one more than Andreas Zeyer.
The hosts dominated the game in the first few minutes against a defensive Hamburg team. However, Freiburg were initially unable to create any chances to score. That changed in the 14th minute: Jan-Niklas Beste was denied from close range by Pauli goalkeeper Nikola Vasilj. Overall, the Breisgau team had little to think of on the offensive; the Hanseatic League hardly allowed anything to happen.
After half an hour the encounter finally became a bore. As in handball, Freiburg played around Hamburg’s penalty area – without being able to assert itself decisively. Suzuki’s goal came almost out of nowhere. The 24-year-old took advantage of a weak defense from Vasilj after a corner with a direct shot.
At the start of the second round nothing changed. Pauli remained on the defensive and his passivity was immediately punished by Eggestein. Although there was next to nothing from the guests afterwards, Freiburg brought Hamburg back into the game with a weak defensive action – Oppie thanked them.