Bremen – Before Werders Bremen’s away game at Bayer 04 Leverkusen, coach Florian Kohfeldt had given attacker Yuya Osako an artificial break and for the first time not called him into the squad due to previously poor performance. Whether the Japanese will be back in the squad for the home game against FC Augsburg (Saturday, 3:30 p.m.), Kohfeldt left open on Thursday.
When asked, the otherwise informative coach replied briefly: “I won’t decide that until Friday, in the interests of the team and in the interests of Yuya.” If the player has his way, it should be clear that he will be part of the team SV Werder Bremen wants to return. Anything else would be highly unusual. Only Kohfeldt can judge whether it would be best for the team. After all, he got to see the 30-year-old up close during the training week, when not all of the units were open to the public.
Werder Bremen: Yuya Osako in “good” training – squad return against FC Augsburg?
Yuya OsakoAs Kohfeldt still revealed, had made “a good impression” in training over the past few days. During the units that could be observed, the Japanese did indeed seem relaxed, laughed a lot, especially at the beginning of the week on Tuesday, and received encouraging words from his colleagues, especially striker Davie Selke, during the exercises. After the session, he and Leonardo Bittencourt put in a special shift in free kick training.
Overall made Yuya Osako so not the impression that he is going to let himself down, which should increase his chances of returning to the squad. That the striker is back in the starting line-up against FC Augsburg SV Werder Bremen stands, but is unlikely. (dco) Also interesting: pursued Werder Bremen against FC Augsburg in the live ticker the DeichStube. And: This is how you see Werder Bremen’s Bundesliga game against FC Augsburg live on TV and in the live stream.
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Werder coach Florian Kohfeldt explains the compulsory break for Yuya Osako: “Unfair to only dump everything on Yuya”
Bremen / Leverkusen – First the watsch’n, then the caress: Florian Kohfeldt gave Yuya Osako hope of a return to the squad after he was not considered for the game at Bayer Leverkusen – but the SV Werder Bremen coach does not lie down Time fixed.
That Yuya Osako not on Saturday for the SV Werder Bremen belonged, had suggested itself in the days before. Explained after the game Florian Kohfeldthow things will go on with Osako. “There is no way I will drop it. Yuya will regain security in the coming weeks through training and at some point – whether next week or in two or three weeks – he will be a candidate for the squad again. “
Werder Bremen: Yuya Osako removed from the squad – but coach Florian Kohfeldt defends his player
The fact that Osako wasn’t there at the weekend had a lot to do with the game before. At 0: 2 from Werder Bremen Against Union Berlin, the Japanese was the worst of many bad guys, after which Kohfeldt said he had two individual conversations with him. Florian Kohfeldt: “We talked a lot. After that we both were of the opinion that he needs a break from his head. ”Also to get him out of focus critic to take that on Yuya Osako would have shot. “Yuya was rightly criticized last week, also from me, but from my point of view he was also attacked very, very often, very harshly. Not only from the media, but also about the overall mood around him, “explained the coach, for whom the whole thing is like this:” Everyone is playing badly and Yuya gets it. It’s unfair to dump everything on Yuya at all times. I am therefore extremely protective of him. “(Csa)
