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It was only millimeters that SC Freiburg was missing at a point in Mönchengladbach.

In the fifth minute of stoppage time, Lucas Höler's hoe was wafer-thin offside.

The following compensation by Keven Schlotterbeck was therefore denied recognition.

Freiburg had cheered too early and lost 1: 2 (1: 0).

“Very bitter.

But if you play like that in the first half and develop such opportunities, then you have to score at least the second goal.

Now at the end of course: that there is some hoe ... and that is still offside five passes later, okay, "said Christian Streich, looked at the scene again and commented on each pass with" and now it goes on, and now it goes on.

Once again.

Once again."

In fact, the ball had been passed five times after Hölers was in a tight offside position, and the question of immediacy arose.

Was there a new game situation?

Streich shrugged his shoulders: “Okay.

Five passes later, ”he just repeated.

The DAZN reporter's follow-up question as to whether he felt disadvantaged was answered by the Freiburg trainer with his own smugness: "I accept everything."

03.04.2021, North Rhine-Westphalia, Mönchengladbach: Soccer: Bundesliga, Borussia Mönchengladbach - SC Freiburg, 27th matchday in Borussia-Park.

Freiburg coach Christian Streich gesticulates ... during the game.

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Thus, the Mönchengladbach reported back in the fight for the European Cup places and at least for the time being conquered the seventh place in the table.

The team of the outgoing coach Marco Rose at the end of the season won after a very weak first half against the immediate rivals with 2: 1 (0: 1).

With the second victory in a row and now 39 points, the Gladbachers were able to initiate the turnaround after a long negative series.

Happy too early: Freiburg goalkeeper Florian Müller celebrates the alleged 2-2 goal, which was denied shortly afterwards due to an offside position

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The Freiburg (37), without a win in Mönchengladbach for 26 years, fell back to ninth place.

Marcus Thuram scored the goals for the hosts with a brace (53rd / 60th minute).

"Freiburg did well, they probably watched a few of our games," analyzed former world champion Matthias Ginter.

"We changed at half-time, that was the key, so we had more access." Roland Sallai had put Freiburg in the lead (10th).

Two goals were too many: Marcus Thuram voluntarily went down after his double

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After the 3-0 win at FC Schalke 04, Gladbach had to change three times because Jonas Hofmann (Corona), Nico Elvedi (calf) and Ramy Bensebaini (yellow card suspension) were canceled.

For Elvedi, Jordan Beyer moved next to Ginter in the defense center.

The first test of the new defensive duo led to the first goal.

Sallai converted a pass from Ermedin Demirovic, who had returned to the starting lineup, to make it 1-0 for the guests.

Twelve minutes later, the Hungarian even had the 2-0 on the foot, but failed because of Borussia goalkeeper Yann Sommer, who also saved against Höler in dire straits shortly before the break.

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Streich had entered the game with personnel concerns.

Vincenzo Grifo came back from the Italian national team with a positive corona finding, Nicolas Höfler was missing from the defensive midfield.

For this, Yannik Keitel joined the starting line-up for the first time this season.

The defense was switched to a chain of three.

The Gladbachers had a hard time against the compact central defensive row and hardly created any scoring chances after Lars Stindl had given the hosts a good opportunity right at the beginning of the game.

In the outer positions too little came from Hannes Wolf and also from Thuram, who tried hard but often got stuck.

Oscar Wendt also lacked the dynamism of Bensebaini in his 300th competitive game for Borussia.

Center forward Alassane Plea often dropped back to get the balls in midfield.

But Thuram's surprising double after the break put the hosts in the front.

Freiburg's Baptiste Santamaria helped with the first goal, while the Frenchman rounded Freiburg goalkeeper Florian Müller and made his third Bundesliga double perfect.

After that, the hosts had even more chances and at the end of the day they couldn’t miss the ultimately happy victory with a concentrated defensive performance.