Freiburg’s Christian Streich has rejected speculation that his coaching career will end soon.
“I’m extremely happy that I can be in Serbia with the boys and play in the European Cup. That’s a great motivation,” said the 58-year-old before the Breisgauer’s Europa League game at FK TSC Bačka Topola on Thursday (6.45 p.m /RTL+) and referred to his interview in the football magazine “11Freunde”.
The coach said that the fact that it was about dwindling strength and energy was perhaps because it was conducted after the 5-0 defeat in Stuttgart.
But now he and his team are going into the third game in the group phase of the Europa League after a home win against VfL Bochum. He has all the players with him except for the long-term injured. Streich therefore does not want to take any consideration for the Bundesliga away game on Sunday against league leaders Bayer Leverkusen. “This game is an absolute priority,” he emphasized at the press conference on Wednesday evening in Bačka Topola, “and if the game has cost us energy, we will swap three or four positions on Sunday.”
Nobody will underestimate the Serbian club, which only got one point in the Europa League, but took the lead in the defeat in London at West Ham United and in the 2-2 home game against Olympiacos Piraeus a 0-2 draw – caught up with the backlog.