SC Freiburg - SC Paderborn

After a good start from new Coach Effenberg Paderborn had played only two times draw lately. This is not what Coach Effenberg likes and because he is a winner and this must be imported to his players. They must show a different character and be more positive and thing that they win whatever in what situation they are. This is almost a must because the teams behind them are coming closer and closer and it is not far away that they slide down into danger zone. The situation can be maybe very good because Freiburg is in some crisis now and they could not win in the last three. The 1-1 draw to bottom team Duisburg was not much helpful too before the national break.

The team from Freiburg has a lot of problems above all in their defensive. The whole Season they face a lot injuries there and players which are not available a long time. This is seen in their defensive play very well because with 18 goals conceded in 14 matches it is clear that this is not like a top team. The next problem is that Günter got injured two weeks ago and is not ready but the replacement for him are less. They have to put up a player who never played before this position on the back wing maybe. The only one Föhrenbach has played this position in youth but he has no experience on this level. The next Torrejon was always injured or suspended and Coach Streich did not count much on him then. The match praxis is not the best right now. The next one Frantz is a midfield player but not a back wing but he played in Duisburg on the right back wing, it is not far away that Streich move him to the left now. For the open place on the right returns Mujzda who got a break against Duisburg.  For all the problems in defensive, they have one of the best offensive lines and they can count on them in almost every game. With Grifo they have a real good playmaker in their rows also for free kicks he is the man. On the wing with Philipp and up front with Petersen they have a congenial trio.

The national break was very welcome in Paderborn above all Coach Effenberg was very pleased about the break. He has time to study a lot of new things with his team and maybe some new styles of play too. They worked a lot on tactic and other things they mean it was worth to talk and to improve. Before the break they do not have the time for that but now it was there and they used it. In all the games with Effenberg (2-2-0) they were far better as under their former Coach. Nevertheless they have to walk on and try to get Points immediately to get out of the bottom zone. The main work was on offensive which was not what Effenberg likes or want to see. He said that they have improved under him but they wasted to much and they must be more clinical in front of the goal in the future. If they had used all their big opportunities they never had played draw to Heidenheim and FSV.
One of the players who improved a lot under Effenberg is Koc, he was close to sign a contract at Hamburg for HSV but Paderborn said no. This was maybe a little bit a knock out for him but Effenberg gave him the trust and believe in him what the performances showed recently. All the players have a lot of self confidence and this is all up to Effenberg, he wants to see confident players who believe in their strength. Therefore Saglik said in an interview: It would be hard for Freiburg to beat us. All players are ready and it looks like that the same lineup from game against Heidenheim starts.