{"id":1163162,"date":"2026-02-22T16:41:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163162"},"modified":"2026-02-22T16:41:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T21:41:53","slug":"freiburg-moves-to-7th-in-bundesliga-with-2-1-win-over-gladbach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/freiburg-moves-to-7th-in-bundesliga-with-2-1-win-over-gladbach\/","title":{"rendered":"Freiburg moves to 7th in Bundesliga with 2-1 win over Gladbach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Matthias Ginter and Igor Matanovi\u0107 scored as Freiburg beat Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach 2-1 and moved to seventh in the Bundesliga on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ginter struck in the 38th minute when he flung himself at the ball after a long throw in to acrobatically steer it in despite the attention of Gladbach defender Joe Scally. Ginter, who previously spent five seasons at Gladbach, restrained his celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>Matanovi\u0107 had no such reticence after scoring Freiburg\u2019s second goal in the 74th when he had a simple tap in after Moritz Nicolas\u2019 save from Maximilian Eggestein\u2019s cross.<\/p>\n<p>Haris Tabakovi\u0107 pulled one back late for Gladbach, just a minute after having another goal ruled out for offside.<\/p>\n<p>Freiburg stretched its winning streak at home to five games across all competitions, while Gladbach\u2019s winless run stretched to seven matches.<\/p>\n<p>Stuttgart hopes to consolidate fourth place for Champions League qualification with a win at last-place Heidenheim later Sunday, and Werder Bremen visits St. Pauli in a relegation duel.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP soccer: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/soccer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/freiburg-moves-7th-bundesliga-2-164153196.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/freiburg-moves-7th-bundesliga-2-164153196.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BERLIN (AP) \u2014 Matthias Ginter and Igor Matanovi\u0107 scored as Freiburg beat Borussia M\u00f6nchengladbach 2-1 and moved to seventh in the Bundesliga on Sunday. Ginter&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}