Werder Bremen has to win in a sort of early relegation battle final on Saturday (3:30 p.m.) at bottom of the table SC Paderborn - otherwise the second relegation of the club's history threatens to become a bitter reality very soon. The preliminary report of the DeichStube *.
Bremen - SC Paderborn is truly anything but a hotspot in Bundesliga history. The club is currently only playing its second season in the top German division and will most likely have to leave it again after only one year of membership, as in 2015. It would be all the more sad if this SC Paderborn (in comparison an absolute nobody) of SV Werder Bremen (four times German champion and a main actor in the Bundesliga in 56 seasons) ) should do something like the death blow in the relegation battle. This is exactly what can happen in the great drama of fate on Saturday (3:30 p.m.). The last one receives the penultimate one, and whoever loses is away from the window - this is the simple formula for the duel in the deep table cellar.
When Florian Kohfeldt the starting position reads admittedly somewhat less striking, but he also is clear. "It is an incredibly important game for us," says the Werder coach: "It is now really naked about the points, about the table. It is very strongly recommended to win this game. "Four games remaining is Werder Bremen , although five points ahead of bottom side Paderborn, but three points behind Fortuna Dusseldorf in the relegation rank . The Fortuna plays parallel to the relegation thriller in East Westphalia against Borussia Dortmund and will probably not score against the table runners-up. "It is an opportunity for us to improve our situation," said Werder sports director Frank Baumann.
Werder Bremen against SC Paderborn; "The most important game!"
On points, SV Werder Bremen could optimally equal the Fortuna. However, if you also miss this chance, everything would still be mathematically possible, but how should a resurrection against Bayern Munich, Mainz 05 and 1. FC Köln be feasible after a bankruptcy in Paderborn? In other words, Werder gets the perspective for the last three games in Paderborn. "We definitely want to win this game, and we should win it too," says Kohfeldt, who after the final whistle either faces the rubble of his work or can continue to believe in a happy ending.
"It is the most important game that we can imagine," explains Baumann with a pathos that is surprisingly great by his standards: "Everyone knows what it's about." The game is not on par with the legendary match against Eintracht Frankfurt on the last day of the 2015/16 season, when Werder Bremen secured relegation with a goal in the final minutes , but Baumann has nothing against that day being remembered before the Paderborn match. “Back then you saw that you can still save yourself in the last five minutes of a season,” he says. The addition, however, should have been that the team in Paderborn had to lay the foundation so that SV Werder could actually have something in the last five minutes of the season.
Werder Bremen against SC Paderborn: "Last chance to squint at relegation site"
Florian Kohfeldt claims that his team may not like this pressure, but that it can handle it well. “So far, the team has always responded to these situations with aggressive, aggressive performances. I am convinced that we will respond again with passion, aggressiveness and 101 percent commitment. ”However, Werder has blundered against Paderborn this season - in the first leg it was a 0-1 home defeat after the 3-2 defeat at VfL Wolfsburg the turn had apparently been heralded. In retrospect, Kohfeldt calls this game “a key game”.
Instead of making the turnaround for the better, things went downhill. With the consequence that there was a stalemate in the second leg between Werder Bremen and SC Paderborn in terms of winning, which Kohfeldt describes and begins with a "Also" that reveals his actual thoughts: "Paderborn is still playing for the probably last chance, too To be able to squint towards the relegation site . So both have the tabular pressure. "And both will give everything in the great drama of fate in East Westphalia, the Bremen trainer is sure:" Last weekend with the 1-1 draw in Leipzig impressively showed that they think of everything, just not giving up. And we won't break the pressure. It will be very competitive. "(Csa)
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