Overview
- Freiburg won the second leg 5–1 at Europa-Park Stadium with goals from Matthias Ginter, Igor Matanovic, Vincenzo Grifo, Yuito Suzuki and Maximilian Eggestein.
- The result overturned Genk’s 1–0 first-leg lead, sending Freiburg through 5–2 on aggregate to their first European quarter-final.
- Grifo’s finish was his 106th for the club, making him Freiburg’s all-time leading scorer ahead of Nils Petersen.
- Genk’s Matte Smets pulled one back before the break but later misplayed a back‑pass that Grifo seized on for Freiburg’s third.
- Nottingham Forest also progressed, winning 3–0 on penalties against Midtjylland with successful kicks from Morgan Gibbs-White, Ibrahim Sangare and Neco Williams to book a tie with Porto.