Eintracht
Frankfurt captain David Abraham knocks down Christian Streich who is the coach of
Freiburg. Sport-Club Freiburg plays in the Bundesliga, having been promoted as
champions from the 2. Bundesliga in 2016. Abraham was sent off for flooring Christian
Streich resulting a chaotic end and red cards to their Bundesliga game on Sunday.
Freiburg was
leading 1-0 and on that very moment the ball went out of play in injury time.
Abraham tried to rebound it and Streich had let the ball go by. Abraham hustled
Streich with a shoulder as he ran by. Freiburg players and staff became
distressed following this and started to chase the defender on to the field.
A yellow
card was shown to Freiburg assistant coach, Florian Bruns and Vincenzo Grifo,
who had been substituted, was shown red card after video assistant referee picked
him up condemning Abraham in the breach of peace.
OH MY. 😳— FOX Soccer (@FOXSoccer) November 10, 2019
Benches cleared at the end of Freiburg's win over Frankfurt after David Abraham took out Freiburg's coach Christian Streich on the sideline. pic.twitter.com/Y1Zof2wlvS
Abraham had
to eat humble pie after
being sent off for punching as Streich said Abraham expressed regret afterwards
and the issue is deemed and reckoned to be over.
Streich said
that football is a contact sport and refrained from commenting further by
declaring not to have any silly talk about the entire incident. Some of his words
regarding the brawl were, “At 54 you can be run over by a young buffalo; you
can’t hold yourself against it anymore.”
Freiburg won
1-0 and Nils Petersen’s 77th-minute goal was all that the team needed.