Werder Bremen drives as a clear outsider to the game at FC Bayern. The times when the two clubs competed to classics that were not called that are long gone. The Sportschau spoke to a Bremener who lost only three of 17 games against Bayern.
Two yellow-red cards for Niklas Stark and Marco Friedl in the added time of the game against the 1st FSV. Mainz 05 caused trouble at Werder Bremen. Coach Ole Werner even saw the red card because of his anger by referee Martin Petersen.
Above all, the references to his players have also ensured that the trainer has to re -establish its central defense in at least two positions for the game on Friday evening (07.02.2025, from 8:20 p.m. . Milos Veljkovic will probably be used.
It would be his 191st Bundesliga game for Werder, most of them are for a professional from the current Bremen squad. The Serbian central defender competed against FC Bayern Munich twelve of the previous 190 games. The balance is terrible because it lost all twelve.
Personal balance sheets as an explanation for the past and the present
Thomas Wolter ran 312 times in the Bundesliga for SV Werder. He played against FC Bayern 17 times. His balance sheet: seven victories, seven draws, three defeats. Milos Veljković came from Tottenham Hotspur to Werder Bremen in 2016, Thomas Wolter played for the Weser club from 1984 to 1998.
With these periods of time, it is almost sufficiently explained how the two personal balance sheets arise.
16 games, 14 defeat, 10:50 goals
Since Veljković played for Werder, the two teams have met 16 times in the Bundesliga. Bayern won 14 games, both in the 1-1 season in the 2021 season and in the 1-0 away win last season, Veljković was not there because of an injury. The first leg also missed the Serb, it went 5-0 to Bayern, so that the duels of Veljković at Werder at Werder came up with 50:10 for the Munich.
Wolter soon believes in new classics
FC Bayern Munich against Werder Bremen, that was the classic of the Bundesliga when the game between the record champions and Borussia Dortmund is now valid. But here, too, the day could be approached when the marketers of German football league have to come up with something else.
In conversation with the sports show, Thomas Wolter says that the duel between Bayern and Bayer Leverkusen will be considered classics in the future, even if Xabi Alonso should no longer be a coach at the German champion 2024.
German champion 1993: Thomas Wolter (M.) with the shell
First Gladbach, then the HSV
There are some clubs that argued with Bayern for years, there are some in the Bundesliga. However, one has been playing in the 2nd league for years. It is the Hamburger SV, in which the Hamburg -born Thomas Wolter was in the western curve of the Volksparkstadion in the early 1980s to pursue the games against FC Bayern, which were classics without being called that.
Wolter went there and was thrilled without the HSV ever near it. His heart in Hamburg beats for FC St. Pauli, as a child he was a follower of Borussia Mönchengladbach, the first club, who was permanently arguing with Bayern and was even more successful.
HSV wins legendary classics in the Munich Olympic Stadium
Some of these classics became legendary, so duel between FC Bayern and Hamburger SV on the 29th matchday of the 1981/82 season. The Munich residents led with three to one, rather the HSV, in the last quarter of an hour, among other things, with two goals from Horst Hrubesch, among other things, won in the Olympic Stadium and remained league leader. Ultimately, he also became a master, for the penultimate time before 1983, when he even won the national champions’ European Cup.
With Werder, Thomas Wolter won the Cup winner’s European Cup. That was in 1992, a year before he became a master with Werder for the second time. He won the first title in 1988, and that was a bit delay, because everything was ready two years earlier.
Champagne is already cooled, but Kutzop shoots the penalty
Wolter remembers that the champagne bottles that should be dropped in the catacombs of the Weser Stadium were already stuck. But that too is a legendary moment in the history of the Bundesliga, Michael Kutzop shot a penalty against Bayern to the post.
The game on the 33rd matchday ended 0-0. One point on the last match day at VfB Stuttgart would still have been enough for the championship, but shocked by the awarded chance against Munich, the Bremen woke up much too late in the Neckarstadion, after 0-2 it was only enough to win the Bavaria, the Bavarian 6-0 against Gladbach and passed.
Werder against Bavaria, Hoeneß against Lemke
Legendary how many games between Werder Bremen and FC Bayern were the verbal duels between managers. Uli Hoeneß and the now deceased Willi Lemke were spinning. It went close to the belt line, especially the boulevard newspapers had their bright fun in the arguments.
Bavaria mess Wolter third championship title
A duel in which Bayern no longer had a chance to become a master has a bitter memory. Werder beat Werder 3-1 in the Olympic Stadium on the last matchday of the 1994/95 season. Borussia Dortmund, who won against Hamburger SV, became German champion for the first time since 1963.
Werder kept a good decade in the top, even won the double in 2004. The championship was celebrated in the Olympic Stadium after a win at Bayern.
Almost parallel to the new rise from Borussia Dortmund under coach Jürgen Klopp, who came to BVB in 2008, the Werderans went downhill. Since the 2010/11 season, the Bremeners have never completed one season in the Bundesliga better than in eighth place. In 2021 it even went down into the 2nd league.
The situation was precarious, also economical. Fortunately, according to Thomas Wolter, his club, for whom he has been working in the youth department for more than two decades, still got the curve. Nobody dreams of keeping up with Bayern again on the Weser.
Perhaps, according to Wolter, the team can surprise again on Friday evening. The personnel situation was also tense last season.