Berliner beaten late
Werder Bremen and Hertha BSC deliver a not very respectable duel. For a long time everything points to a 0-0 – until Niclas Füllkrug strikes.
Vollkrug scores, Werder wins: Thanks to the top striker’s renewed accuracy, Bremen have ended their negative run in the Bundesliga. With his first goal since the beginning of October, Füllkrug, the top scorer, ensured SVW’s 1-0 (0-0) win over Hertha on Friday (85th minute) and provided another argument for the leap into the World Cup squad by national coach Hansi Flick. After three previous league games without a win or a goal, Werder moved up to sixth place for the time being. Hertha is still stuck in the lower middle of the table.
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If something went forward in this weak game in front of 42,100 spectators, it was through Füllkrug and Marvin Ducksch. The Werder strike duo was kept well under control by the Hertha defense most of the time. If one of the two was able to get loose, it became dangerous immediately. After some good preparatory work by Füllkrug, Ducksch (26′) shot just over the goal from a tight angle. Five minutes later, Füllkrug then tried a flick himself, which Berlin goalkeeper Oliver Christensen was able to parry to a corner.
Not much came from Hertha. Both teams often struggled with the decisive pass in depth. The guests also made individual mistakes, especially in midfield. Suat Serdar in particular didn’t play well in the first half. With his ball losses or pass errors, the 25-year-old invited Bremen to counterattack a number of times. The team coached by Sandro Schwarz made it even more difficult that attacker Stevan Jovetic had to leave after just over half an hour. Hertha first became halfway dangerous in the 56th minute when Dodi Lukebakio shot wide.
Otherwise, at least offensively, almost nothing went together – until Bremen’s Mitchell Weiser suddenly found himself free in front of Christensen shortly before the end. After a low cross from Romano Schmid, he didn’t hit the ball properly. It was all the better just before the end, however, at the end of the day. After a cross from Anthony Jung, he rose from the penalty spot and headed the ball over Christensen to score the winning goal.
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