Fight for European Cup ranks
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After the 0: 5 against SC Freiburg, the frustration sits deep with the players of SV Werder Bremen. “I am a bit ashamed of this appearance,” said offensive player Romano Schmid after the third defeat in the Bundesliga one after the other.
The travelers who traveled with them celebrated their depressed players after the final whistle. According to sports director Clemens Fritz, the protégés showed a “desolate” performance. “We can only apologize for what we delivered here,” said the 44-year-old ex-captain.
Werder player coach Werner takes on Werder player
Instead of shortening the gap to the sports club, it is now nine points, and the other weekend at the other European Cup seats could continue to grow. With 35 own goals at 47 goals, Werder also has by far the worst goal difference among all teams with at least 30 points. “The bottom line is that it is very, very disappointing. The way we currently appear, it is not enough to score points, ”said coach Ole Werner. With newcomer André Silva, his team in the meantime awarded the chance to shorten a penalty to 1: 2.
There is not much time to process the next damper. Already on Tuesday (8:45 p.m./ZDF and Sky), the quarter-finals in the DFB Cup will be on the program at the third division club Arminia Bielefeld. “We are Werder Bremen and I go into the game with a wide chest and know that we are the better team when we bring our performance on the square – very, very simple,” said Schmid.
After 5-0 gala against Bremen: SC captain Günter humble
Despite the temporary jump on a Champions League place, captain Christian Günter from SC Freiburg remains humble. “Talking about the Champions League on match day 23, these are the right questions,” the 31-year-old wished against Bremen after the gala performance. “Four weeks ago, I can remind everyone, there was almost a mega crisis after the defeats against the supposedly large teams. We know how to assess everything correctly. “
Finally, the Freiburg won four times in a row, each not conceding a goal. “We are very happy that we really played four games in a row too zero. This shows how stable we are, how little we allow. The team is doing an outstanding job at the moment and you can really only praise everyone, ”said double scorer Vincenzo Grifo.
Against Werder, Ritsu Doan shone next to him, who also hit twice. In addition, there was an artistic fall back from Kiliann Sildillia, who has been in a fantastic form in the past few weeks. “It was important that we were so effective that we scored the goals at the right moment,” said coach Julian Schuster, who saw a balanced game over long distances. “So we could reward ourselves for a good performance.”