The SC Freiburg Chronicle
Match12 Dec 2036
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.
Match13 Dec 2036
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 ratings15 Dec 2036
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 ratings15 Dec 2036
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.
Squad15 Dec 2036
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.
Squad15 Dec 2036
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.
Match13 Dec 2036
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 ratings15 Dec 2036
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.
Squad15 Dec 2036
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
- Player ratings A masterclass from Karim Konaté
- Squad SC Freiburg count the cost of losing Peter Busch
- Market The Johan Manzambi talk will not go away