Peter Busch

Attacking Midfielder (L) - SC Freiburg U20
18 Sep 2038
Saturday
Process

Marked for Peter Busch

542 Edition

The SC Freiburg Chronicle

15 Dec 2036
From our football correspondent Triumph

Match

Maik Afri Akumu lights up a European night for SC Freiburg

1‑0 against Crvena Zvezda, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Maik Afri Akumu was at the centre of the description.

Match

Nobody wants to play SC Freiburg right now

5 wins in a row changes how opponents warm up: quieter, more glances across. Runs end, everybody knows that — but nobody in this dressing room is planning for it.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Yuito Suzuki yet — 8.67

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.67 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Player ratings

Johan Manzambi shuts the door

Defensive actions: 25, and a clean sheet at the end of it. A centre-half's best afternoons look like nothing happening, which is precisely the point.

Squad

Max Rosenfelder in a row with a teammate

It was not about football and everybody who saw it knows that. Two men who have to play together on Saturday said things at SC Freiburg this week that will take longer than a week to unsay.

Squad

Karim Konaté falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Match

Patrick Osterhage sends SC Freiburg past VfL Wolfsburg

It finished 3‑2, and it was Patrick Osterhage’s afternoon: on the scoresheet when it mattered, and the reason the points belong to SC Freiburg.

Player ratings

A masterclass from Maik Afri Akumu

Marked 9.41 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.

Squad

Yannik Wagner is carrying SC Freiburg

8 goals and a season average of 7.42. Form like that gets noticed well beyond this town.

In brief

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537 Edition

The SC Freiburg Chronicle

10 Nov 2036
From our football correspondent Steady

Match

Yuito Suzuki lights up a European night for SC Freiburg

2‑2 against Mlada Boleslav, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Yuito Suzuki was at the centre of the description.

Player ratings

Age has not caught Yuito Suzuki yet — 8.76

At 35 he is supposed to be managing his minutes. Instead he was marked 8.76 and looked, for ninety minutes, exactly like the player everybody remembers.

Market

Dedryck Lukaku has one foot out of the door

Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around SC Freiburg they have already started talking about him in the past tense.

Squad

Tempers go at SC Freiburg

Karim Konaté was at the centre of it, and by the time it was pulled apart there were three or four others involved. Training grounds are small places and long seasons make them smaller.

Match

Nobody could stop scoring

6 goals. Both benches spent the second half looking at each other rather than at the pitch. Purists will complain about SC Freiburg and Köln in equal measure; everybody else had a wonderful time.

Squad

Noah Atubolu falls out with a teammate over standards

The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.

Player ratings

Ninety minutes of Yannik Wagner at his very best

Marked 8.85. Players have careers without a single afternoon like this in them, and he has just had one in front of everybody at SC Freiburg.

Player ratings

Romeo Aigbekaen in the eights

A performance of 8.82 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.

Squad

SC Freiburg count the cost of losing Peter Busch

57 days, the scan says, and scans are kinder than reality. The fixtures in that window have just become somebody else’s job.

In brief