Despite absences: This is how Werder Bremen wants to go into the top game against Schalke!

Before the top game of the 2nd Bundesliga

Bremen – SV Werder Bremen is traveling to the second division top game at FC Schalke 04 (Saturday, 1.30 p.m. in the DeichStube live ticker) with some injury worries. After three draws in a row, the second-placed Green-Whites definitely want to win at the table leader. The preliminary report of the DeichStube!

Bremen – The press conference before the top game in the second division FC Schalke 04 (Saturday, 1.30 p.m., DeichStube live ticker) was exactly 13 minutes old on Thursday afternoon when Ole Werner obviously had enough of the rather worried tone that had previously prevailed within the digital round. “It’s the case that we also know what we can do,” emphasized the coach SV Werder Bremen suddenly, after he had announced bitter personnel reports at the beginning and then had been asked in detail about the opponent’s strengths. After those of league leaders Schalke 04, who recently had five wins in a row, Simon Terodde and Marius Bülter now have the best strike duo in the 2nd division – and who are now welcoming second-placed SV Werder, who will be on their way to Gelsenkirchen .

Werder Bremen want to go into the top game at FC Schalke 04 with self-confidence and a focus on their own strengths

Painful failures in defense – Omer Toprak, Milos Veljkovicmaybe too Christian Gross -, plus not won for three games – the famous omen before the enormously important duel in the fight for the risethey could from the point of view of SV Werder Bremen be significantly better. As I said, this impression persisted for 13 minutes during the press conference. Before he could really settle down, steered Ole Werner but vehemently against.

“With all the things that have already been mentioned and with all the lads that we may be missing, we just have to keep in mind what kind of quality we have and that we want and will bring that to the pitch. That’s the most important thing for me,” he said Ole Werner before the top game at FC Schalke 04 – and announced: “We want to go there, show Werder football and be brave. That’s what I’m looking forward to. We want to show that we as a team can hold our own in such an atmosphere and even under difficult circumstances.” On the way to the big goal, it would be for Werder Bremen a more than valuable step.

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Werder Bremen coach Ole Werner before the Schalke game: “We want to show that we can survive even in difficult circumstances”

With 54 points, Bremen currently have two fewer than the front runners Schalke 04, who has stabilized just in time for the final spurt of the season since coach Mike Büskens took office. In an away win would Werder Bremen jump back to first place and thus put themselves in the best possible starting position before the games against Kiel, Aue and Regensburg that will follow. “Of course we’re going into the game to win it,” said Werner, for whom it will be his first appearance in the Schalke Arena. “First against second, a great stadium that’s sold out – it’s going to be a really great kick,” says the 33-year-old, who can count on the support of 6,253 Werder fans. And he hopes that his team will finally take the lead again, which the Bremen team failed to do three times in a row – against Sandhausen, St. Pauli and Nuremberg. In the end, each of these games only earned one point.

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“Of course we worked through things from the last game,” said Werner, referring to the most recent appearance of the SV Werder Bremen against 1. FC Nürnberg (1:1) when the home side fell behind in a weak first half and, despite great chances in the closing stages, failed to turn the game around completely. “We have expressed that we cannot be 100 percent satisfied with this,” said Ole Werner. Then look straight up Schalke 04 been judged. And that – despite all the unfortunate personal omens – full of anticipation and optimism. “The team worked very hard and is really looking forward to the game,” assured the head coach, who incidentally has already played against the Royal Blues this season.

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Werder Bremen coach Ole Werner ahead of the Schalke duel: “The team is really looking forward to the game”

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Cashed in on the second day of play Ole Werner, then still as coach of Holstein Kiel, a 0: 3 home defeat against the Bundesliga relegated, who, like his current employer, would like to return to league one. At that time sat by Schalke 04 still Dimitrios Grammozis on the bench. A lot has changed since Büskens took over in March (for example, the team is playing with a back four again). “They are not only more stable at the back, but have also become more effective at the front,” said the coach of the SV Werder Bremen observed. Then, at the end, he briefly praised the “high individual quality” of players like Simon Terodde and Marius Bülter, but quickly reiterated: “It’s all the more important for us to let that develop as little as possible. We’ll have a clear idea of ​​how to defend it.” Confident instead of worried – that’s how it should work at Schalke. (dco)