Ten-man Freiburg beat Schalke 2-1 with late Gotō header to go top

📰 Down to ten men, Freiburg beat Schalke with an 85th-minute header from a Japanese substitute to climb to the top of the Bundesliga. 📌 Key points 🥇 Freiburg are top of the Bundesliga after Matchday 5. 🟥 Yuito Suzuki was sent off for a second yellow on 64 minutes. ⚽ Substitute Keisuke Gotō headed the winner in the 85th minute. 📈 Freiburg are level with Dortmund on 13 points but ahead on goal difference. 🏟️ Bayern Munich drop to third on 11 points. 📝 What happened ⚽ Freiburg led after ten minutes through Maximilian Eggestein, set up by Matthias Ginter. Schalke levelled from a set piece on 30 minutes through Adrian Gantenbein, his first Bundesliga goal and Schalke's first set-piece goal of the season. 🟥 Yuito Suzuki, booked on 49 minutes, fouled Soufiane El-Faouzi on 64 minutes and was shown a second yellow, leaving Freiburg with ten men. 🎯 Freiburg still found a way. On 85 minutes, substitute Keisuke Gotō headed in a Vincenzo Grifo cross for his first Bundesliga goal. 🗣️ Julian Schuster said 'what the lads did was remarkable', while Schalke coach Miron Muslić said: 'We threw away a point.' 📊 By the numbers • Freiburg: 13 points from five games, goal difference +10, top • 10 points from the first four games: a club record • xG: Freiburg 1.60, Schalke 0.28 • Eggestein's distance covered: 12.3km, the most in the team 🔭 Why it matters After a club-record start of ten points from four games, Freiburg have now overtaken both Bayern and Dortmund. The next game is a real test: Freiburg travel to Bayer Leverkusen on 18 October, while Schalke host Mainz on 17 October.