Freiburg
Borussia Monchengladbach
Match summary
Freiburg won comfortably, 5-0 at home to Borussia Monchengladbach. Freiburg led 2-0 at half-time.
In the first half, Yannick Engelhardt put Freiburg ahead with a header in the 23rd minute, set up by Derry Scherhant and Igor Matanovic made it 2-0 in the 29th minute, set up by Matthias Ginter. In the second half, Matanovic made it 3-0 with a header in the 77th minute, set up by Jordy Makengo, Engelhardt made it 4-0 in the 79th minute, set up by Matthias Ginter, and Maximilian Eggestein made it 5-0 in the 86th minute.
The chances backed that up: Freiburg created 2.15 expected goals (xG) from 19 shots to Borussia Monchengladbach's 0.27 from 5. Borussia Monchengladbach had a player sent off.
Freiburg dominated this Bundesliga fixture on matchday three, securing a comprehensive five-goal victory over Borussia Monchengladbach. The hosts enjoyed sixty-one percent possession and controlled the territory throughout, registering nineteen shots compared to just five from the visitors. Freiburg placed nine of their attempts on target and created significant attacking pressure, accumulating an expected goals figure of 2.15 against Borussia Monchengladbach's 0.27. The visitors struggled to test the home defence, failing to record a single shot on target across the ninety minutes. Discipline was heavily tested in a physical encounter, with the visitors collecting four yellow cards and one red card, while the hosts received a single caution and committed seven fouls to sixteen.
The breakthrough arrived in the twenty-third minute when Yannik Engelhardt headed home to open the scoring for Freiburg. Igor Matanovic doubled the lead with a right-footed shot in the twenty-ninth minute, taking a two-goal advantage into the interval. Early in the second half, Borussia Monchengladbach's difficulties mounted as Tim Kleindienst received a second yellow card in the fifty-second minute, resulting in a dismissal following an earlier booking in the thirteenth minute. Matanovic added his second of the match with a header in the seventy-seventh minute, before Engelhardt struck again with a left-footed shot in the seventy-ninth minute. Maximilian Eggestein completed the five-goal margin in the eighty-sixth minute with a right-footed finish.
