With their win at Hertha, SC Freiburg have established themselves in the top third. If it’s up to Nico Schlotterbeck, that’s how it should stay.
SC Freiburg is currently experiencing a real high. After the 2-1 win in Berlin, the Sport-Club is still unbeaten and, with 15 points after seven games, is firmly established in the top third of the table. Although Leverkusen can still overtake them with a win in Bielefeld on Sunday (7.30 pm), SC are third for the time being after the game against Hertha, level on points with second-placed Dortmund.
Freiburg’s “basic bulwark “
Nico Schlotterbeck wouldn’t mind if this remained the case on Sunday evening: “I want to get stuck in at the top, that’s my goal. I think that’s the team’s goal as well.” The defender blames the “unity” and the “basic bulwark” of the Breisgau team for the interim high. In fact, Freiburg have only conceded five goals so far, which is also thanks to Schlotterbeck himself – and they haven’t lost yet.
Against Hertha “it was maybe not so good going forward”, but Schlotterbeck still believes “that we can play a very, very good season this year. We’re winning a lot of games right now and I hope it stays that way.”
Super-Joker Petersen
But Sport-Club impressed with other qualities in addition to their defensive ones in Berlin: Both goals came from Christian Günter corners. Nils Petersen then scored the 2-1 winner with his 30th joker goal in the 250th Bundesliga game. “Two standard goals, that was enough today,” Schlotterbeck concluded with a grin.
His coach Christian Streich took a more sober view of his team’s away performance: “Football-wise, it was average. At the moment, we’re the luckier ones.” At least he complimented his team on the way they started. What Streich thinks of premature European Cup dreams, he had already expressed weeks ago.
