Bremen – Four days were approved. From Saturday noon to Wednesday, trainer Florian Kohfeldt gave the SV Werder Bremen team a free time – and it can be assumed that the professionals made good use of their free time.
Because until Christmas there won’t be a break of this length for them. With the end of the current international phase, a super-intensive program with seven games in four and a half weeks starts. Before the extremely short winter break this time, the Bremen team will have to compete six times in the league and once in the DFB Cup at Hannover 96 (December 22nd / 23rd). And to make it clear how tough these weeks will be, coincidence put the game with Champions League winners and Bundesliga leaders FC Bayern Munich at the very beginning of this time. That can be clearer SV Werder Bremen not be signaled: From now on it hurts!
Some also say: From now on it’s going down! In addition to the match in Munich, the six-pack in the league also includes encounters with RB Leipzig and Borussia Dortmund – three opponents from the top tier of German football. What Werder Bremen can draw from such games? Maybe experience, but rather no points.
Werder Bremen have only played against teams from the second half of the table so far
The results of these games will very likely change the table, which is currently still so friendly for Werder, to the disadvantage of Bremen. In any case, it would be surprising if Coach Florian Kohfeldt even after the twelfth matchday, when the three chunks are behind Werder, still draws a similar interim balance as last weekend. He rated the situation as “absolutely okay so far” after the gruesome 1: 1 against 1. FC Köln and the tenth point won after seven games.
“Absolutely okay” – you can leave it there. What is noticeable, however: Werder Bremen has so far only played against teams that have had a difficult time getting into the season and are currently all in the second half of the table. Victories against Schalke 04 (17th place) and Arminia Bielefeld (15th place) as well as the 1-1 series against SC Freiburg (14th), TSG 1899 Hoffenheim (13th), Eintracht Frankfurt (11th) and most recently the 1. FC Köln (16.) have ensured that Werder, as ninth in the table, initially looks good.
Werder Bremen: Ninth place in the table is hard work – but from now on he is absolutely in danger
“We had an opening program that definitely had opponents against whom we have to score if we want to stay in the league. We did that against everyone, ”said Kohfeldt. Duty fulfilled, so to speak – and the whole thing garnished with points against Frankfurt and Hoffenheim – “against much stronger opponents,” said Kohfeldt. Incidentally, who, by the way, would not be behind Werder if they had won against Bremen.
Ninth place in the table did not go to the green-whites, but was worked hard. But from the game against Bayern he is absolutely in danger. Currently the cushion on the relegation region is seven points – like many of them Werder Bremen can save into the Christmas break is the question before the following four and a half hammer weeks.
Werder Bremen: The international break is the longest training track of the season after summer preparation
In addition to the big three, they also deliver games against the currently equal points VfB Stuttgart, against VfL Wolfsburg, which is only one point better, and against the bottom line Mainz 05. These are probably more the games that will set the benchmarks for Bremen than Bayern, Dortmund, Leipzig.
As Werder Bremen coming out of these weeks is a question of the future. How Werder will go in can already be answered: well prepared. Because thanks to only two international matches (Jiri Pavlenka for the Czech Republic, Jean-Manuel Mbom for the German U21), Kohfeldt has most of his staff together after the end of the four days off and can theoretically work ten days at a time with the players – that is after the summer preparation longest training route the season. How does Kohfeldt want to use it? “We will set another tactical block. So it is of course good for us that many players stay here in this special situation. “(Csa)
Werder Bremen: The schedule until Christmas at a glance
Saturday, November 21, 3:30 p.m .: FC Bayern Munich – SV Werder Bremen
Friday, November 27th, 8.30 p.m .: VfL Wolfsburg – SV Werder Bremen
Sunday, December 6th, 3:30 p.m .: SV Werder Bremen – VfB Stuttgart
Saturday, December 12th, 3:30 p.m .: RB Leipzig – SV Werder Bremen
Tuesday, December 15, 8:30 p.m .: SV Werder Bremen – Borussia Dortmund
Fri./Sa./Sun., 18./19./20. December: Mainz 05 – SV Werder Bremen
Tue / Wed, 22./23. December, DFB Cup: Hannover 96 – SV Werder Bremen
