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Düsseldorf vs Freiburg: match report
Fortuna Düsseldorf hosted SC Freiburg at Merkur Spiel-Arena on Sunday 23 August 2026, in the DFB-Pokal (round 1). Robert Hartmann is the referee, averaging 3.5 yellow cards a game against a league average of 3.9.
Result and scorers
Düsseldorf 1-5 Freiburg. Goals: Lucas Höler 18' for Freiburg; Igor Matanovic 71' for Freiburg; Lukas Kübler 74' for Freiburg; Fabian Schleusener 76' for Düsseldorf; Jordy Makengo 80' for Freiburg; Igor Matanovic 90'+4' for Freiburg.
Key moments (contains the result)
- 18' Goal: Lucas Höler (Freiburg)
- 23' Yellow card: Yuito Suzuki (Freiburg)
- 71' Yellow card: Matthias Zimmermann (Düsseldorf)
- 71' Goal: Igor Matanovic (Freiburg)
- 74' Goal: Lukas Kübler (Freiburg)
- 76' Goal: Fabian Schleusener (Düsseldorf)
- 80' Goal: Jordy Makengo (Freiburg)
- 90'+4' Goal: Igor Matanovic (Freiburg)
Match stats (contains the result)
| 44.5% | Possession | 55.5% |
| 5 | Shots | 17 |
| 2 | Shots on target | 10 |
| 3 | Corners | 9 |
| 15 | Fouls | 4 |
| 2 | Offsides | 1 |
| 5 | Saves | 1 |
| 1 | Yellow cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0 |
Line-ups
Düsseldorf 5-3-2
Coach: Jens Langeneke
- 22 Louis Lord GK
- 15 Tim Oberdorf DEF
- 16 Marcel Benger DEF
- 3 Dominique Heintz DEF
- 25 Matthias Zimmermann DEF
- 28 Sascha Risch DEF
- 5 Yassine Bouchama MID
- 6 Andreas Müller MID
- 8 Jorrit Hendrix MID
- 24 Fabian Schleusener FWD
- 9 Eric Hottmann FWD
Bench
- 1 Lasse Rieß GK
- 44 Elias Egouli DEF
- 2 Steven van der Sloot DEF
- 34 Anas Slimani MID
- 10 Philipp Förster MID
- 38 Elias Arden MID
- 18 Miguel Gonçalves MID
- 14 Jomaine Consbruch MID
- 27 Jordi Paulina FWD
Freiburg 4-2-3-1
Coach: Julian Schuster
- 1 Mio Backhaus GK
- 17 Lukas Kübler DEF
- 28 Matthias Ginter DEF
- 3 Philipp Lienhart DEF
- 33 Jordy Makengo DEF
- 6 Patrick Osterhage MID
- 8 Maximilian Eggestein MID
- 19 Jan-Niklas Beste FWD
- 14 Yuito Suzuki MID
- 32 Vincenzo Grifo FWD
- 9 Lucas Höler FWD
Bench
- 21 Florian Müller GK
- 29 Philipp Treu DEF
- 30 Christian Günter DEF
- 43 Bruno Ogbus DEF
- 16 Yannik Engelhardt MID
- 42 Keisuke Goto FWD
- 7 Derry Scherhant FWD
- 22 Cyriaque Irié FWD
- 31 Igor Matanovic FWD
Previous meetings
- Wednesday 29 October 2025: Fortuna Düsseldorf 1-3 SC Freiburg
- Saturday 22 February 2020: SC Freiburg 0-2 Fortuna Düsseldorf
- Sunday 29 September 2019: Fortuna Düsseldorf 1-2 SC Freiburg
- Sunday 5 May 2019: SC Freiburg 1-1 Fortuna Düsseldorf
- Saturday 15 December 2018: Fortuna Düsseldorf 2-0 SC Freiburg