Christian Streich calls performance against Wolfsburg “catastrophic”-REPORT
Coach Christian Streich had almost longed for the final whistle, after which the SC Freiburg coach waved his arms. After the bitter 0: 6 (0: 3) and a completely desolate appearance at VfL Wolfsburg, Streich immediately called his team into the dressing room – he probably had a lot to say to his players. And the Wolfsburg fans could hardly believe their luck after the biggest win of the season against the previous runners-up, they sang: “Oh, how nice”.
Patrick Wimmer (1st), Jonas Wind with a brace (34th and 37th) and Yannick Gerhardt (56th), Riddle Baku (80th), and Luca Waldschmidt (90th + 4) with a penalty kick shot it up deserved victory against the supposed “Bayern hunter number one”.
Freiburg without Grifo – and without any chance
Playful, efficient, and ice-cold, the wolves didn’t give the staid guests a chance, and the Freiburgers didn’t even get the consolation goal. “It’s extremely painful to start like this in 2023,” said Freiburg’s captain Christian Günter on Sky: “Everything came together, it was a really bad day for us. I don’t have a bit of an explanation. It wasn’t apparent. We have to look at what went wrong.” Central defender Matthias Ginter also had to concede “that we didn’t have a chance”, but he couldn’t give any reasons for this.
SC Freiburg can be credited with the fact that Vincenzo Grifo was absent due to illness. He was missing from his team in every nook and corner.
Streich: We were insanely bad
Freiburg is now five points behind record champions Bayern Munich, who scored a point in the 1-1 draw at RB Leipzig on Friday evening and are therefore autumn champions. The Wolfsburg team coached by Niko Kovac climbed to sixth place with their fifth win in a row. Freiburg slipped from second to fourth place. Christian Streich had demanded “100 percent focus and willingness” from his team. In the end he spoke of “catastrophic duel behavior” exactly 11 years to the day after he coached SC for the first time in the Bundesliga. And continued: “We were just incredibly bad.”
But his team wasn’t ready at first in front of 23,849 spectators. Gerhardt passed the ball wonderfully into Wimmer’s run and it surprised the guests right after the kick-off. Freiburg was visibly impressed by Wolfsburg’s tactical discipline and defensive order. In addition, the wolves were very effective, but the SC also allowed the factory club to do so surprisingly easy. The second half then mostly just splashed along. Freiburg couldn’t really do it, Wolfsburg slowed down significantly with the sovereign lead behind them. Nevertheless, Gerhardt, Baku, and Waldschmidt increased – they caused the heaviest defeat that Christian Streich had to experience in his eleven years as Freiburg coach.