The best short-time worker in the Bundesliga had once again done a great job.

33-year-old Nils Petersen, SC Freiburg's most valuable bank reserve, came on in the 61st minute of Sunday's away game against Eintracht Frankfurt and decided the match eight minutes later with a header from Günter's free-kick to a happy 2-1 victory for the fifth in the table, who, according to the centre-forward with the pronounced gift for anticipation, “likes to squint upwards” these weeks.

Also thanks to Petersen, who has enriched the Sport-Club since 2015 with his personality, his presence and his goals and has come to terms willy-nilly with his main role as a substitute par excellence.

The attacker, who comes from Wernigerode in the Harz Mountains and has excellent manners at work and in life off the field, implemented on Sunday exactly what Günter and he had practiced during the week.

One as one of the best free-kick specialists in the league, the other, formerly with Energie Cottbus, FC Bayern Munich and Werder Bremen, as one of the best finishers with 88 Bundesliga goals.

The fact that the South Badener and the North German cultivate a precise cooperation was obvious after Petersen had stolen away from his guards Paciencia and Jakic and then was free to score the winning goal with a header after Grifos opened the scoring (27th) and Kostic equalized (54th). the Hessen, who were by no means disappointing after the fabulous tour de force in the 1-1 win in the Europa League quarter-final first leg against FC Barcelona.

In the end, the more efficient Freiburg, who had once again been enriched by the super joker Petersen, celebrated.

With his 33rd goal in this iconic role, he is the undisputed number one in Bundesliga history.

Of these, nine goals were at the expense of Eintracht, eight of them to the chagrin of national goalkeeper Kevin Trapp.

"I know that I always get a chance when I get my minutes, even after standard situations," said the part-time perfectionist on Sunday after work was done.

Petersen's coach Christian Streich, who surpassed his Freiburg long-term predecessor Volker Finke (1991 to 2007) in terms of the number of Bundesliga victories with the 105th full success on Sunday, did not praise himself, but his best executor since taking office at the end of December 2011.

"I've never had a player who has such a gift and such an intuition to know where the first, second and third ball goes.

That's great quality.

There aren't many players who can do that.

That's why he scores so many goals, even though he doesn't always play ninety minutes."

To put it more precisely: the center forward has not made it to ninety minutes in his eighteen league appearances so far this season, crowned by five goals so far.

For him, who recently extended his contract with SC Freiburg, the principle applies: good things take time.