SV Werder Bremen celebrated its second win of the season in the top game of the Bundesliga on Saturday: The Hanseatic League beat 1. FC Köln 2-1 (1-1). Former Bremen player Davie Selke (31′) had put the Rhinelanders in the lead, Rafael Borré (38′) and Joker Justin Njinmah (67′) then turned the game around for the home team. Cologne is still waiting for its first win of the season.
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Compared to the 2:4 against Heidenheim, there were a whopping five changes in the starting eleven at SV Werder Bremen: Miloš Veljković, Olivier Deman, Senne Lynen, Rafael Borré and Marvin Ducksch started for Marco Friedl (not in the squad), Christian Groß, Anthony Jung , Dawid Kownacki and Nick Woltemade. At 1. FC Köln, however, there was only one substitution: Luca Waldschmidt was allowed to replace the suspended Rasmus Carstensen.
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The teams didn’t hide, Niklas Stark caused danger for the first time in the fourth minute with a header that just went over from a corner. Cologne attacked Bremen aggressively when they had the ball and won a few possessions. After 14 revolutions of the pointer, Cologne’s first opportunity fell to Linton Maina, whose shot from 18 meters away was defused as a dangerous touchdown by Jiří Pavlenka.
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Davie Selke heads in to make it 1-0 – IMAGO/Nordphoto
Borré counters Selke
Romano Schmid was then sent into the penalty area in the 27th minute with Bremen, who appeared to be a bit more mature in terms of play: Denis Huseinbašić was just able to prevent the Austrian from shooting and cleared it just a few centimeters past the left goal post – almost an own goal! But there was a problem in the box on the other side: Davie Selke headed in from close range after a corner that Deman couldn’t clear cleanly enough to give Cologne the lead (31′). Last week the striker scored against TSG, now against Bremen: both former clubs of the attacker who is strong in the air.
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Werder were not impressed, found more and more of their combination game and occasionally let the ball run very well. Ducksch’s pass into the penalty area to Borré, who remained ice-cold in front of Marvin Schwäbe and slotted in the bottom right to make it 1-1 (38′), was a real eye-catcher. Shortly before the break, SVW almost increased, but Schwäbe parried Deman’s volley very confidently (42.)
Immediately after the break, Schmid had a good chance, but Schwäbe was very quick in the bottom left corner and was able to keep his team at 1-1 (46th). Bremen acted more aggressively in the second half and pushed Cologne much higher than in the first 45 minutes.
Njinmah impresses as the Joker – again!
Werder coach Ole Werner then brought in the lightning-quick Justin Njinmah (66th) for the active goalscorer Borré – and the joker stung immediately! Lynen sent the sprinter deep on the right, took the ball with him in the penalty area with a touch and then cleverly pushed it past Schwäbe from close range to the right to make it 2-1 (67th). These were the Joker’s first two touches of the ball.
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The Cologne team, without the necessary rhythm in their offensive game in the second half, continued to try to attack on the wings and flanks. Benno Schmitz created the next chance, but his deflected shot was defused by Pavlenka (74′).
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It was the Czech in the 81st minute who cleared substitute Steffen Tigges’ powerful but unplaced header with his fists. Shortly before the end, a Cologne joker, Damion Downs, almost crowned his courageous and courageous performance: He headed a free-kick cross from the right side from close range onto the left post (89th).
Rafael Borré scores 1-1 – IMAGO/Jan Huebner
Player of the game: Marvin Ducksch
Marvin Ducksch was directly involved in eight of Bremen’s 17 shots on goal (two fired, six presented), provided the assist to make it 1-1 (his first of the current Bundesliga season) and won a strong 63 percent of his duels.
Always there and dangerous: Marvin Ducksch – IMAGO/Jan Huebner
2023-09-23 22:13:14
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