00:00Including the 9th minute of added time to pinch the points.
00:04Finishing as low as 16th in the league face.
00:06Celta Vigo have already come through knockout ties.
00:09Jordi Mekengo is back from injury,
00:11so comes in for all-time appearance maker Christian Gunter at left-back.
00:15Their all-time top and European goalscorer Vincenzo Grifo
00:18having been the team's leading scorer in this competition.
00:22While Borja Iglesias starts up front in place of the out-of-form Pablo Turan.
00:26Javier Ueda is suspended for the first leg.
00:30All the serious stuff really begins in the way for Europa League
00:34as the quarter-finals get underway.
00:38This part of Germany for the very first time.
00:42Manzambi.
00:45Eggerstein.
00:49And to Mekengo.
00:53Bester.
00:55Celta struggling to clear the lines.
00:57Eggerstein.
00:59Opening up for the shot which was moving and bending.
01:06It's Grifo.
01:08Can't quite get the distance into the air by Iglesias.
01:14It's about to Grifo who bends one and the deflection takes it home.
01:21The legend of this club does it again.
01:24And Freiburg are off to a flyer.
01:27It's over.
01:27It's over.
01:36Well, Celta can't say it hadn't been coming.
01:39And the beers are flying in the home end.
01:45The skipper delivers in what seems to be spectacular fashion.
01:52It's over.
01:52Half seems to play.
01:56Half of his goals this season have actually been from the spot.
02:00Here, he picked his spot.
02:02Wrapped his boots around it.
02:08Linha.
02:10Suzuki.
02:12Troy, on towards Matanovic, angle tied, not for him.
02:17But it's touched in by Niklas Bester.
02:21His first ever goal in European football.
02:24And Freiburg now have a cushion.
02:28Who knows who it's a cushion they can rest on, their fans can scarcely believe it.
02:32But Celta are in all kinds of trouble as the legendary boss watches on.
02:49The tones of, I will survive, ringing around this arena.
02:54And it looks like Freiburg's supreme home record is going to run true for them again here tonight.
03:05Well, Celta didn't cover themselves in glory.
03:09Matanovic, who couldn't really shoot for the angle he was at, made sure that the opportunity didn't go to waste.
03:16Suzuki.
03:18Quick ball in Detroit.
03:23Bester.
03:27Manzambi looking to get it back, Manzambi off the post!
03:35Nothing is stopping them right now.
03:39Mid-field for Matanovic, but wanting a bit more there was Aidu.
03:44Manzambi.
03:52They've got Grifo out there as well, he wants to take it on.
03:55But Kengo will go beyond.
03:58Grifo.
04:00Great intelligence in his play for Egerstein.
04:02Matanovic sets it.
04:04Manzambi!
04:06As it came back to him, didn't really have the space to shoot, he does now!
04:10Stopped by Radu.
04:12The referee halting play now anyway because of the injury.
04:17The half-time whistle, I think, from the referee.
04:22All over.
04:23He was just waiting for a VAR check to come and go.
04:26And Freiburg have a two-goal lead at the break.
04:32And we're off and running again.
04:35Celta Vigo.
04:36If they do want to keep this run going, surely you have to nick at least a counter here for
04:41Celta.
04:42Who are looking to take advantage.
04:45Iglesias.
04:48Borja Iglesias!
04:49With a rocket.
04:50It hits the net, but it's the one protecting the fans and not the one behind.
04:54They scored twice at Dinamo Zagreb and their very next game as well in the defeat to Ludogoretz.
05:01Here's Matanovic.
05:03It's a corner.
05:08Only the second of the game tonight for either side.
05:13There hasn't been a match listed with set pieces like that.
05:19It's not a match listed here.
05:44It is not a match listed at the centre.
05:45It's going to be the first one to play.
05:45I think it is a match listed for players.
05:46is that. The man born here in Freiburg has surely pushed his hometown club into the semi-finals of
06:00the Europa League. Perfectly executed. And a position at the back and then just ease onto
06:15the six-yard area and Carrera with some shocking defending and no interest in trying to play the
06:22ball at all. And when you've got a role like that in the team you are asking for trouble.
06:29Aspas and the like can do nothing either. And they cannot believe how simple it has been for them
06:37here tonight. This a quarter-final after all. Seven of 15 this year which is marginally improved but
06:48clearly don't travel too well. Oh they've got a chance here for a goal back which they really
06:55should have had tonight. It's consistently given the ball away since coming on and there where
07:02he just had to cushion it home with a side foot. Somehow managed to hit it there with
07:09the almost outside base of his foot. I'm not sure what he was trying to do. Either way off target
07:17it goes. Just about the best chance his side have had all evening goes Becking.
07:26Keeps on going. It's found here the roll of Huller. Might have just kissed the outside of the post on
07:35its way wide. Feels like one of those hazy nights inside this stadium where magic things are happening.
07:41Certainly for one team. Just graced the body there of the goalkeeper. Just nicked the outside of the post.
07:52I don't think had that got in Celta could have had any complaints in terms of the margin of score.
07:58Freiburg worth every penny.
08:01All the German hosts. There it is. 3-0 and it could have been so many more for Julian Schuster's
08:12side.
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