The rest of the program and a returnee

In this really disastrous season at Werder Bremen, a season goal goes overboard every three to four months. At the beginning of November, the club said goodbye to its European Cup ambitions.

At the beginning of February there was also hope to somehow free yourself from the relegation battle. Since this Sunday, at number three of the eternal Bundesliga table, it has been known that it will hardly be possible to secure further membership in this league directly. After the 0: 1 against VfL Wolfsburg, the only reasonably realistic option is to save themselves in the relegation matches against the second division third.

“We are fighting for the relegation place, that is our first goal,” said trainer Florian Kohfeldt. “There are still four games left. And in four games it is possible to catch up three points behind. If we can do that, we have two more games. Then we have a chance to stay in this league. ”

For many Werder fans, the Wolfsburg game rather triggered the feeling that it was now. The second Bundesliga relegation after 1980 can no longer be avoided. After only one win in 15 home games and only 25 points in 30 games in total, there are hardly any clues as to why the attack on the relegation place should still work in the last four games.

The number of games remaining is getting smaller, but the list of significant shortcomings remains unchanged. Kohfeldt said of the repeated mistakes in position before the goal by Wout Weghorst: “It really hurts. We feel like we are defending everything away – and it still happens again. ” And about the problems above, the “Süddeutsche Zeitung” wrote: “The harmlessness in the attack grows to hopelessness.”

One person continues to speak and work against this feeling of resignation: the trainer. “The first step is that we go ahead from the sporting leadership,” said Kohfeldt on Sunday. “I want to do everything we can to stay in there. Every fiber has to radiate that. ”

Specifically, the Bremeners still hope for two factors:

The rest of the program

Nobody expects anything countable against Bayern Munich (June 16) in Bremen. The bottom of the table SC Paderborn (June 13), the table-15. Mainz 05 (June 20) and the table 11. 1. FC Köln should beat someone who has plans for this season. “It is clear that we have to score against Paderborn and also in Mainz next week. I believe that the team is alive, ”said Sport Managing Director Frank Baumann. But if you only use the table as a benchmark, the main competitor Fortuna Düsseldorf with FC Augsburg and promoted Union Berlin still has two supposedly solvable tasks ahead of them. Should the table-16. win these two games, Werder would probably not help three wins because of the poorer goal difference.

The returnees

Bittencourt, Rashica, Füllkrug: This is how Kohfeldt imagined his line of attacks before this season. Leonardo Bittencourt was struck against Wolfsburg, Milot Rashica was injured and Niclas Füllkrug was not yet fit again. But that should change next Saturday in Paderborn. The 26-year-old Füllkrug, in particular, is pushing for his comeback after being signed by Hannover 96 for around 6.5 million euros before the season and then taken to the hospital with a cruciate ligament tear after the fourth matchday.

“I don’t want to put the pressure on his shoulders and say: The Messiah is finally coming again. It will only be an alternative from the bank, nothing more, ”said Kohfeldt. “But as a strong boxer, Niklas is certainly an element that we don’t have. I look forward to having his mentality in the squad. ”

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• 1.FSV Mainz 05

• 1. FC Cologne

• FC Augsburg

• FC Bayern Munich

• Fortuna Dusseldorf

• Frank Baumann

• Hannover 96

• Leonardo Bittencourt

• SC Paderborn 07

• Union Berlin

• VfL Wolfsburg

• Werder Bremen

• Werder fans

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