Werder Bremen can’t get rid of its sluggishness at the beginning of the games. Coach Ole Werner has not yet found his starting eleven.
Ole Werner pulled his black baseball cap low over his face and made no secret of his frustration. “It’s extremely disappointing,” said the Werder Bremen coach after the last-minute knockout in the 2:3 (1:2) against TSG Hoffenheim: “I’m just sorry for the boys.”
Instead of taking a point and a certain amount of momentum into the international break after Jens Stage’s hard-earned, late equalizer (90th + 1), the Hanseatic team gave everything with their deep sleep before the “breaking neck” by Marius Bülter (90th + 2). here. “Then we’re just stupid,” said captain Marco Friedl, noticeably annoyed: “We simply can’t let ourselves score the goal.” Werder initially has to look towards the bottom of the table with only six points.
The traditional club had imagined things completely differently, as Clemens Fritz openly admitted. “It’s clear that there is dissatisfaction. We are also dissatisfied and we don’t close our eyes to it, we analyze clearly and work on the issues,” said the sports director: “We work together as a group, and I am convinced of ours Team.”
However, the team that has to play in Dortmund in two weeks is still not very stable and cannot overcome a recurring problem. Bremen repeatedly overslept the first half and only brought their full fighting strength and playing ability onto the pitch in the second half.
“You have to become more consistent in recalling your patterns right from the start and throughout the entire season,” Werner also knows: “Much more than conceding a late goal, it’s an issue of getting into the game differently.”
Especially in the first half, Hoffenheim, who set a club record with their fourth away win in a row and remain at the top, showed a much more mature playing system. Maximilian Beier (8th) and Grischa Prömel (29th) scored for coach Pellegrino Matarazzo’s guests, who were confident in their combinations, while Romano Schmid (17th) made it 1-1.
Naby Keita was also still on the pitch at the time, making his starting eleven debut for Bremen against TSG after a long wait due to an adductor injury. But it became clear that the 28-year-old still lacks his previous dynamism and connection to the game. After almost 60 minutes, the former Liverpool FC star left the pitch – injured again. It was initially not clear whether the midfielder would travel to the Guinea national team or stay with his club.