The… trodden one would say that he followed once more the Freiburgimposed on her Cologne with 2-0in today’s (12/17) opening game, as part of the 15th matchday of this year’s Bundesliga.
You see, this was the third successive win for Olympiakos’ former rival in the Europa League groups with the ‘ingredients’ remaining… unchanged, essentially.
Namely, without conceding a goal and with Florian Gregoric to be the one to score again for his team, in this case at 72′ of the match!
Thus, the Austrian centre-forward equaled the performance he had in Europe, reaching the three goals that is, after the hat-trick he did in the match against Piraeus…
Ten minutes earlier, the “Goats” were forced to stay with one player less, due to the dismissal of Julien Sambo with second yellow card and, basically, from that point on, things just went their way.
For Salai’s header to come in the fifth minute of extra time and shape the final result, from Gregoric’s cross.
So Freiburg did 3×3, moved up to sixth and moved within two points of fifth-placed Borussia Dortmund. While Cologne stayed away from the “three points” for the second match in a row and fell to 15thlevel with Union Berlin, which has less matches though.
The schedule for the 15th matchday:
Friday (15/12)
Gladbach-Werder Bremen 2-2
(45′, 49′ Wrights – 7′ Boret, 76′ Dukes)
Saturday (16/12)
Mainz-Heidenheim 0-1
(12′ Piringer)
Bochum-Union Berlin 3-0
(45’+5′ Asano, 54′ Pasiencia, 78′ pen. Steger)
Augsburg-Borussia Dortmund 1-1
(23′ Demirovic – 35′ Mullen)
Darmstadt-Wolfsburg 0-1
(63′ Mager)
Leipzig-Hoffenheim 3-1
(34′ Klosterman, 70′ Forsberg, 74′ Simakan – 42′ Kabak)
Sunday (17/12)
Freiburg-Cologne 2-0
(72′ Gregoric, 90’+5′ Salai)
Bayer Leverkusen-Eintracht Frankfurt (18:30)
Bayern Munich-Stuttgart (20:30)
The program of the next (16th) matchday
Tuesday (19/12)
Werder Bremen-Leipzig (19:30)
Borussia Dortmund-Mainz (21:30)
Hoffenheim-Darmstadt (21:30)
Wednesday (20/12)
Union Berlin-Cologne (19:30)
Bayer Leverkusen-Bochum (21:30)
Eintracht Frankfurt-Glandbach (21:30)
Wolfsburg-Bayern Munich (21:30)
Stuttgart-Augsburg (21:30)
Heidenheim-Freiburg (21:30)
Source: Sport Fm
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