SC Freiburg: Streich protects team after cup exit against second division team Paderborn

Cup exit against second division team Paderborn

Coach Christian Streich from SC Freiburg defended his team after the cup embarrassment against second division team SC Paderborn. “The boys are doing everything,” said the 58-year-old after the Europa League starter’s 1:3 (0:2) defeat in the second DFB Cup round. In the second half they “worked against it”. Nevertheless, the SCP was better and deserved to win.

Freiburg has had “too few fit players, too many injuries” all season long, emphasized Streich. This is noticeable in the large number of games in the league, the Europa League and the cup. It is now important “to protect the boys and look at it realistically,” said the coach about Baden’s fourth defeat in the last six competitive games. Captain Christian Günter, Roland Sallai, Daniel-Kofi Kyereh, Maximilian Philipp, Yannik Keitel and Max Rosenfelder are currently out injured – together the sextet has a market value of 34 million euros.

“We have to join forces,” demanded Streich. It’s now about “getting through very, very tough weeks”. On Saturday (3:30 p.m./Sky) Freiburg will host Borussia Mönchengladbach, and the Europa League second leg against Serbian representative FK TSC Backa Topola will take place on the following Thursday. “It’s our own fault that we got back into the European Cup,” said Streich with a pained smile. “It is wonderful. But it really sucks when you have a lot of players who aren’t at 100 percent.” The SCF has qualified for international business in each of the last two years. Last season they reached the round of 16 of the Europa League.

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12 Philipp Lienhart – 151 Bundesliga appearances

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10 Janik Haberer – 158 Bundesliga appearances

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9 Lucas Höler – 176 Bundesliga appearances

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8 Vincenzo Grifo – 179 Bundesliga appearances

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7 Richard Golz – 180 Bundesliga appearances

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6 Julian Schuster – 185 Bundesliga appearances

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5 Jonathan Schmid – 198 Bundesliga appearances

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4 Nils Petersen – 216 Bundesliga appearances

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3 Andreas Zeyer – 236 Bundesliga appearances

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1 Christian Günter – 303 Bundesliga appearances

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