Michael Gregoritsch s late goal continued Freiburg s dizzying Europa League run with a 1-0 win over West Ham United in the first leg - leaving them with every hope of progressing to the quarter-finals in London this Thursday (kick-off: 6.45pm CET).
Freiburg reached the last 16 of the Europa League after coming back from a 2-0 deficit to claim a 3-2 win against Lens in extra-time in the second leg of the Europa League knock-out round play-off on Wednesday. Michael Gregoritsch scored the winner in the 99th minute, but only after Roland Sallai completed a dramatic brace to settle the 2-2 draw in the final minutes of regular time. "Unbelievable, how often do you get to experience something like this? This is a one for the ages," Gregoritsch to
Fresh fan protests erupted on Sunday against a German Football League (DFL) plan to recruit an external investor - including a toy plane disrupting a Bundesliga game - as cracks in a previous agreement on the deal began to widen. What appeared to be chocolate coins rained down onto the pitch early in Freiburg's 3-3 draw with Eintracht Frankfurt, before the remote-controlled toy plane and more hurled sweets led the players to leave the pitch for several minutes in the second half. On Saturday, re