Motherwell’s Conference League journey is over after a rampant Freiburg side overwhelmed them 4-1 in Germany in their play-off second leg.<\/p>\n
Trailing last season’s Europa League finalists 3-1 on aggregate, Alfred Johansson’s men had an almighty task to qualify for the league phase, after coming through two rounds of qualifiers to reach this stage.<\/p>\n
And the visitors were further behind in the opening five minutes.<\/p>\n
Winger Derry Scherhant burst in behind to latch onto a smart through ball, opened up his body, and curled it past the onrushing Alex Paulsen.<\/p>\n
Not to be deterred, Motherwell levelled on the night after a speculative Emmanuel Longelo strike from 30 yards was inexplicably spilled into his own net by goalkeeper Mio Backhaus.<\/p>\n
However, Motherwell fell by the wayside in the second half after Jake Girdwood-Reich was shown a straight red card for a lunging challenge.<\/p>\n
In the next six minutes, Freiburg scored two headers from inswinging corners, first through striker Igor Matanovic, followed by Cyriaque Irie glancing in.<\/p>\n
The Bundesliga side remained relentless, hitting the bar, a post, and having a shot cleared off the line in the space of 60 seconds, and a powerful Maximilian Eggestein effort was well saved.<\/p>\n
And the tie was finished when Keisuke Goto was left unmarked in the middle of the box and crashed in a late fourth for the visitors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Motherwell’s Conference League journey is over after a rampant Freiburg side overwhelmed them 4-1 in Germany in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-751827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=751827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/751827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=751827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=751827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=751827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}