Only in penalty shooting the Bundesliga sky storms of the SC Freiburg continued their success series in the DFB Cup.
The team of coach Christian prank won unexpectedly with the third division VfL Osnabrück with a tedious with 3: 2 in the duels from the point and reached the secondary finals in post-seats. After the extension it had been 2: 2 (1: 1, 1: 0). SC goalkeeper Benjamin Uphoff held three penalties.
Keven Schlotterbeck (120th) had rescued Freiburg Kur to the penalty duel before the end of the extension. Previously, Sebastian Klaas with his goal in the 108th minute of playing the VFL was very catching up. The Lower Saxony had enforced the balance with the last action of the regular playing time by a hit by Lukas Gugganig (90. + 7). Scorer for the guests was Vincenzo Grifo, who used a Patzer of goalkeeper Philipp Kühn in the 33rd minute. Osnabrück s Ba-Muaka Simakala (116.) was still yellow-red shortly before the end of the hectic extension.
From the first minute, the Bundesliga third showed the pleasant game system, but the necessary tempo was lacking first. In front of 11,530 spectators on the Bremer bridge, the second division relegated always found enough time to orientate in time.
The slow game build-up did not fit at all. Again and again, the Freiburg Coach challenged his protégés with unambiguous gestures to increase the number of beats. The Lower Saxony, on the other hand, were trying to compensate for the technical superiority of the Breisgauer undefeated in the league.
Updhoff represented fleckken in the Freiburg Tor
In the offensive, the third division fourth found that in the first round of Bundesliga relegated Werder Bremen hardly threw the competition until the break. With one exception: in the 36th minute VfL-Torjäger Marc Heider failed from a short distance detached to Uphoff, which was allowed to represent Mark Flekken in the Pokal Stamenkeeper Mark Flekken.
After the side change changed at the dominance of the Black Forests, which had won only three days in the Bundesliga at the Champions League participant VfL Wolfsburg with 2: 0, little. The North Germans had little possession and rarely came to counterattacks.
But after a tight hour there was another. Now the seats increased the pressure, but they were more prone to counterattacks. Lukas Kübler (61.) Missed after quick switching only just a second hit for Freiburg in the regular season. After that it became dramatic.