Home win against Freiburg!

Just like in our victory over Crvena zvezda, RBL took the lead early on. Xavi opened the scoring yet again, curling the ball into the far corner in the 6th minute to make it 1-0. Leipzig kept the pressure on Freiburg and the away side came close to falling apart. Benjamin Sesko's powerful header in the 17th minute went just wide and Lois Openda was denied by Freiburg's keeper Noah Atubolu shortly afterwards (23').

Christian Streich's side grew into the game after weathering the Leipzig storm. Janis Blaswich was called into action for the first time in the 34th minute, as he saved Maximilian Eggestein's long-range effort. Merlin Röhl went on a superb run down the right-hand side in the dying minutes of the first half and equalised for SCF.

Freiburg looked to get forward more at the start of the second half and put in more challenges. Lucas Höler thought he'd given Freiburg the lead in the 52nd minute, but Noah Weißhaupt was offside in the build-up. Freiburg's well-structured defence meant that it was hard for RBL to carve out chances, and the visitors were also looking for their second goal. However, in the 78th minute, substitute Christoph Baumgartner was brought down in the box and the referee pointed to the spot. Up stepped Lois Openda, who coolly converted the penalty to give RBL the lead again. Only a couple of minutes later and RBL had another. Xavi played Baumi through on goal, and the Austrian's deflected effort found the back of the net to seal a Leipzig victory (80').