Unbeaten teams: SC Freiburg in line with FC Liverpool & RB Salzburg
“We have never had anything like this”
“I will not be dazzled. It’s wonderful now, we’ve never had anything like that after nine match days, ”said Christian Streich, SC Freiburg coach, after the 2-0 win against VfL Wolfsburg last weekend (quoted via “Bundesliga.com”). With 19 points, the Breisgauers are in third place in the Bundesliga, only behind FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund. The sports club also reached the round in the cup on Tuesday 5: 4 after the next penalty shoot-out against VfL Osnabrück – and thus continued its impressive run this season.
After eleven games across all competitions, Freiburg is still unbeaten – as one of only 14 teams worldwide (note: since the seasons have only just started in some countries, at least five games were used as a benchmark). The SC is about on a par with teams like RB Salzburg and Liverpool, who die next to Freiburg at the same time, both clubs from the European top 10 leagues die without defeat.
In fact, Streich is right when he said that. Such a situation is unique in the club’s history. Never before have the club had more points in their account after nine match days since joining the Bundesliga for the first time in 1993/94. Although they were also third two years ago, they had two points less to show. The last unbeaten war Freiburg was at the same time in 1992/93 in the 2nd Bundesliga – and was promoted to the House of Lords for the first time under Volker Finke.
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A look back at the past shows that a good start to the season is by no means a guarantee of an equally good finish. Two years ago, after a good start, the eighth place jumped out, which was very good by Freiburg standards, but the only qualification for the Europa League came in 2012/13 after twelfth place on the ninth matchday. “We know why it’s stable at the moment. And if we lose a little of it, you won’t win a Bundesliga game anymore, ”emphasizes Streich.
Unbeaten teams: FC Liverpool & RB Salzburg are champions favorites
How special the Bundesliga club’s series is, a look at the squad value comparison with Liverpool and Salzburg, for example. While the “Reds”, the fifth most valuable club in the world, often go into the games as favorites with EUR 866.5 million and will play for the title in both the Premier League and the Champions League, the “Red Bulls” have a dominant position in Austria that is second to none – with 154.4 million euros, the squad is worth almost five times as much as the first rival Rapid Wien (34.6 million euros).
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Freiburg, on the other hand, has an average of EUR 132.2 million in the Bundesliga comparison, but has collected ten out of twelve possible points in the last four matches against teams with a higher value. “Everyone throws himself into every duel, everyone switches, there is no one to complain. Then you can also score points in the Bundesliga if you don’t play so well, ”says captain Christian Günter. The series is to be expanded next Saturday towards the bottom of the pack, Greuther Fürth (3:30 p.m.).
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