display

Sinsheim (AP) - This frosty Saturday in the empty Sinsheim stadium, Sebastian Hoeneß will probably not forget his entire coaching career.

The Bundesliga newcomer to the TSG 1899 Hoffenheim bench must have felt like a schoolboy who was slapped one after the other.

"The course of the first half fits perfectly with the script of a horror film," said the 38-year-old after the 1: 3 (0: 3) against SC Freiburg at the completely messed up start of the year.

Hoeneß has already gone through a lot in his short term in office in Kraichgau, but that was "brutal".

The movie must have frozen the Hoffenheim fans in front of the television.

7th minute: Baptiste Santamaria scores 1-0 for the sports club.

When trying to disturb SC captain Christian Günter's cross, national player Sebastian Rudy twisted his left knee and had to be led into the cabin with a thick bandage - in his 300th Bundesliga game of all places.

The diagnosis is still pending, but TSG fears a longer downtime.

display

Hoeneß and Hoffenheim had not yet recovered from this, when defender Kevin Akpoguma had to leave the field - muscle injury in the thigh.

34th Minute: Substitute Melayro Bogarde gets the ball in the penalty area stupidly by the hand - penalty.

Vincenzo Grifo increased to 2-0.

42nd Minute: Kasim Adams steers the ball into his own goal - 0: 3.

Completely confused, the Hoffenheim trotted into the cabin.

When asked whether he felt sorry for Hoeneß, Freiburg's head coach Christian Streich later said: “Yes, totally!

It's a very difficult phase for Hoffenheim at the moment, but they will fight their way out. "

After the final whistle, he gave his colleague a comforting hug.

Rudy and Akpoguma were the current number nine and ten failures for Hoeneß, who already had several corona cases in the team in the fall.

"We imagined the start of the new year very differently," said the 38-year-old.

Bad luck?

His professionals also showed a lot of ineptitude: not a single chance in the first round, "erratic on the ball" (Hoeneß), too open on the outer lanes.

That's why goalkeeper Oliver Baumann was “totally pissed off: It doesn't work the way we defend.

We get a lot of simple goals. "

display

The Austrian international Christoph Baumgartner also quarreled: “That was not the start we wanted, neither in the game nor in the new year.

We tried a lot after the move, but it wasn't enough. "

Freiburg celebrated their fourth win in a row and gave Streich a successful start to his tenth year as head coach at SC.

“I'm really happy.

Now we have 20 points, that's really unbelievable, "said the 55-year-old.

Meanwhile, the Hoffenheim are bobbing around in the gray midfield of the table.

In the Europa League, the club is in the knockout round, but Hoeneß has not yet found the road to success in everyday business.

TSG actually wanted to start a race to catch up after the 2-1 win in Mönchengladbach shortly before the winter break - but now they have to deal with this pitch-black day.

Only one thing can help, says Hoeneß: “Training!

Training!

Training!"

After all, you don't want to make yourself the laughing stock of the league next Saturday as opponents of the chronically winless FC Schalke 04.

display

© dpa-infocom, dpa: 210103-99-880977 / 2

Bundesliga table

TSG Hoffenheim squad

Schedule TSG 1899 Hoffenheim

Squad SC Freiburg

Schedules SC Freiburg

Voices on Hoffenheim's homepage

Match information on bundesliga.de