The Motherwell team look dejected after SC Freiburg's Igor Matanovic scored to make it 2-1Image source, SNS

At a glance

  • Scherhant nets for Freiburg within five minutes

  • Goalkeeper Backhaus fumbles Longelo strike to level score on night

  • Motherwell reduced to 10 when Girdwood-Reich sent off

  • Matanovic, Irie and Goto net to take tie away

ByJack Herrall
BBC Sport Scotland

Motherwell's Conference League journey is over after a rampant Freiburg side overwhelmed them 4-1 in Germany in their play-off second leg.

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.

And the visitors were further behind in the opening five minutes.

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.

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.

However, the the second half saw Motherwell fall by the wayside after Jake Girdwood-Reich was shown a straight red card for a lunging challenge.

In the next six minutes, Freiburg scored two headers from inswinging corners, first through striker Igor Matanovic, followed by Cyriaque Irie glancing in.

The German 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.

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.

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Number: 1 M. Backhaus
Number: 30 C. Günter
Number: 37 M. Rosenfelder
Number: 28 M. Ginter
Number: 29 P. Treu
Number: 16 Y. Engelhardt
Number: 8 M. Eggestein
Number: 7 D. Scherhant
Number: 14 Y. Suzuki
Number: 22 C. Irié
Number: 31 I. Matanović

Substitutes

Number: 42 K. Goto
Number: 32 V. Grifo
Number: 9 L. Höler
Number: 3 P. Lienhart
Number: 43 B. Ogbus

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