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Leverkusen (dpa) - In the exuberance of a special day, Christian Günter said what many of his colleagues probably only dared to dream.

"We can slowly look up with a little eye," said the captain of SC Freiburg on Sunday after the 2-1 (0-0) victory in the Bundesliga at Bayer Leverkusen on his 28th birthday.

In the morning his teammates serenaded him.

"Happy Birthday, very classic, so that everyone who doesn't speak German can sing along," said Günter at Sky.

And with a view to the imminent, almost 500-kilometer journey home by bus, added: “I don't need any more songs now.

But I would be happy to have a small beer. "

Christian Streich will have allowed him.

Just as he let him get away with the public reverie of the European Cup.

«The boys are free.

You can squint wherever you want, ”said the Freiburg coach.

But added, of course: “I'm not looking anywhere.

And the boys know that we have to be better at football if we want to have different demands. "

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If his team had fallen behind on Sunday, “we would probably have lost,” Streich openly admitted.

But after the victory, the SC is actually fully in the raffle in the fight for a Europa League place.

Sixth place, which is certainly sufficient - currently occupied by Leverkusen - is only three points away.

"Anyone can read the table," said Streich, "34 points for SC Freiburg after 23 games, that's pretty great."

He is currently happy about this mainly because the SC has already got rid of any relegation worries after two thirds of the season.

"We don't have the insane stress that we had in tight years," said Streich: "That's wonderful."

And Lucas Höler, who prepared Ermedin Demirovic's 1-0 (50th) and scored the 2-0 (61st), said in a somewhat coded manner: “If there was something going on a few game days before the end, we'd be happy . "

And it is actually possible.

Next Saturday, RB Leipzig comes second in the table, but then the SC will have a largely solvable program until the end against Bayern and in Frankfurt.

Against opponents who go through the stress of relegation that the prank team spares itself this season.

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And Captain Günter can even dream twice of Europe.

According to media reports, national coach Joachim Löw is considering nominating the right-back seven years after his only international match so far.

And the EM is coming up in summer.

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