Sitting in fourth place with just two games remaining, Schuster‘s men are going into arguably their most important encounter of the season: a Matchday 33 meeting away to Holstein Kiel.
Win that, while hoping that Bayer Leverkusen down Borussia Dortmund and RB Leipzig fail to beat Werder Bremen, and Freiburg dreams will have been realised.
The ifs and buts are many, but the bottom line is that Freiburg have club history in their own hands, an outcome that few would have predicted following the departure of legendary coach Christian Streich last season.
