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Freiburg host Motherwell on Thursday in the Europa Conference League qualifying return leg, aiming to secure their place in the league phase of the Europa League. As reported by BuLi News, Julian Schuster’s side return to Europa-Park Stadion looking to finish the job. They won the reverse fixture in North Lanarkshire 3-1 last week.

Motherwell struck inside two minutes through Regan Charles-Cook, but last season’s Europa League finalists controlled proceedings thereafter. Matthias Ginter hit the first brace of his career to turn the tie, then Keisuke Goto marked his debut with a goal in the final kick.

Motherwell have never reached the group stage, or league phase, of European competition, and now face a task none of Freiburg’s Europa League opponents managed last term. The Breisgau club have won their last eight European matches at Europa-Park Stadion, a new Europa League record.

Freiburg followed up with a 5-1 win at Fortuna Düsseldorf in the DFB-Pokal first round. Igor Matanović was outstanding, scoring twice and supplying an assist in under 25 minutes.

Team news: Max Rosenfelder went off injured 10 minutes before the end of the first leg and missed Sunday’s cup tie. The former Real Madrid academy player Philipp Lienhart is expected to partner Ginter at the heart of Freiburg’s defence again. Motherwell centre-back Martin Moormann is suspended after his straight red card at Fir Park.

Predicted line-ups: Freiburg, Backhaus, Treu, Ginter, Lienhart, Makengo, Eggestein, Engelhardt, Beste, Suzuki, Grifo ©, Matanović. Motherwell, Paulsen, Longelo, Wilson, Knight-Lebel, Girdwood-Reich, Fadinger ©, Hodge, Lowry, Said, Charles-Cook, Maswanhise.

Source: BuLi News

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