The SC Freiburg Chronicle
Player ratings21 Sep 2026
Vintage Vincenzo Grifo — 7.83
At 33 every good afternoon gets called a throwback, and this one was: 7.83, and nobody on the pitch better.
Squad21 Sep 2026
SC Freiburg count the cost of losing Markus Weber
16 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.
Match19 Sep 2026
SC Freiburg and Mainz 05 take a point apiece
It finished 1‑1, and it somehow always looked like it would. One of those afternoons where the table moves less than the tempers.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Marco Lehmann on the point
“A point is a point and I will take it, but we should have had all three.” Marco Lehmann after the 1‑1 draw, and the sentence every manager in the country said at some stage this weekend.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
SC Freiburg take on the side everybody is chasing
Bayern Munich arrive as leaders. A side at the top is beaten roughly once a month, and the club that does it gets a week it remembers for a year.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
The form table has caught Cyriaque Irié
Somebody else has been better, the manager has said so with a team sheet, and there is no argument to be had. He will get the shirt back the only way it can be got back.
The dugout21 Sep 2026
Patrick Osterhage knocks on the manager’s door
“Thirty minutes, door closed, everything said. We shook hands after.” Whatever was in the room stayed in the room, and Patrick Osterhage trained the next morning like a man with less to carry.
Market21 Sep 2026
Mio Backhaus linked with a move away
The name of Mio Backhaus keeps appearing in other people's back pages. SC Freiburg say nothing, which says plenty.
Looking ahead21 Sep 2026
Kimberly Ezekwem goes back to face Bayern Munich
Every squad has one of these fixtures for somebody every season. This one is Kimberly Ezekwem’s: the club that knew him first, the supporters who will decide in the first minute whether to applaud, and SC Freiburg needing him to play as if none of it matters.
In brief
- The dugout A door opens for Lukas Kübler
- Player ratings Igor Matanović runs at them all day
- Squad Matthias Ginter says his piece