Mohamed Salah faces Freiburg with a strong record against German clubs

Mohamed Salah heads into another meeting with a German club carrying a strong record. Trabzonspor will face Freiburg on Thursday evening in the third round of the UEFA Conference League group stage. It will be Salah’s 11th match against a German team, but his first outside the Champions League.

The forward’s previous record against Bundesliga clubs adds interest to the fixture. Across his 10 earlier matches against those sides, he recorded eight wins and two draws, with no defeats. He also scored six goals and provided three assists. Those figures relate to his earlier meetings with German clubs, not the upcoming match against Freiburg.

The teams come into this third group-stage match with different records in the competition. Trabzonspor won its first two matches and has six points. Freiburg has three points, from one win and one defeat. The immediate task for Trabzonspor is to maintain its perfect start, while Freiburg will look to close the gap in the group standings.

In the Bundesliga, Freiburg is third with 16 points after eight matches. Its league record stands at five wins, one draw and two defeats, with 18 goals scored and 10 conceded. Over its last five Bundesliga matches, it has recorded two wins, one draw and two losses.

Freiburg’s home and away figures offer two further reference points. At home in the Bundesliga, it has won three of four matches, drawn none and lost once, scoring 12 goals and conceding five. Away from home, its record across four matches is two wins, one draw and one defeat, with six goals scored and five conceded. Across all its Bundesliga matches, Freiburg averages 2.25 goals scored and 1.25 conceded per game.

Shorouk Sports describes Trabzonspor as being on a seven-match winning run under Thomas Reis and says the team is relying on Salah’s attacking performances against Freiburg. The fixture will therefore bring together the run attributed to Trabzonspor, Freiburg’s position in the Conference League group and Salah’s previous record against German clubs.