FC St. Pauli

FC St. Pauli lost by the only goal of the game against SC Freiburg on Saturday. In an even contest low on chances, Nikola Vasilj saved a Vincenzo Grifo penalty, as in the reverse fixture, just before the interval, only for a deflected Christian Günter effort to win it for the visitors late on.

Having grown up in the Breisgau region of Germany and learned his trade in the Freiburg Football School, Carlo Boukhalfa has known SC Freiburg since his childhood days. This weekend, he faces a reunion with his former club at the Millerntor.

A run of three games without defeat came to an end on Sunday evening when the Boys in Brown lost 2-0 at Leipzig. The Saxony outfit proved extremely effective in the first half, taking a two-goal lead with their only attempts on goal through Benjamin Šeško and Xavi Simons. A second-half improvement boosted by a red card for Leipzig's Willi Orban was not enough to ward off the defeat.