After a good start to the new Bundesliga season with six points from the first three games, SV Werder Bremen is using the current international break so that coach Florian Kohfeldt's team can continue to play: The second division FC St. Pauli will be visiting on Wednesday from 5 p.m. for a test match in the stadium “11th place”, spectators are not allowed in the corona pandemic.
Bremen - Generally speaking, it is the sense of such games during the first international break after the transfer deadline that signed newcomers can get used to the processes in the new environment at the last minute without having to go straight to the competition.
It is only known that
Werder Bremen
have not signed any more players.
On the contrary: For trainer
Florian Kohfeldt
it will be a test run that could give an initial indication of how his team can do without one of the previous top performers in the future.
After Davy Klaassen's departure to Ajax Amsterdam, Kohfeldt has to rearrange his midfield.
The
Werder test match
against
FC St. Pauli
(from 5 p.m. in the live ticker of the
DeichStube *
) could already show how he intends to do this in the future.
Werder Bremen: Test match against FC St. Pauli for the rhythm
The Hamburg team started the new season in the 2nd Bundesliga mixed.
A 2-2 win at VfL Bochum was followed by a 4-2 win against 1. FC Heidenheim and most recently a 0-1 defeat at SV Sandhausen, which currently results in ninth place in the table.
Against
Werder Bremen
, coach Timo Schultz, who played for Werders U19 and U23 from 1995 to 2000, should give his newcomer Guido Burgstaller more playing time after the striker, who came from FC Schalke 04, made his 28-minute debut for the club in Sandhausen
FC St. Pauli had
celebrated.
Werder Bremen friendly against FC St. Pauli: How is Werder doing without costly newcomers?
When
Werder Bremen
the international Ludwig Augustinsson, Milos Veljkovic, Yuya Osako, Marco Friedl and Nick Woltemade be missing.
In addition, Milot Rashica is not there after his failed move to Bayer 04 Leverkusen because he has been given special leave from the club for this week in order to be able to collect something after the transfer turbulence.
And also the trio Niclas Füllkrug
(individual stress control), Davie Selke and Stefanos Kapino will stop training this week.
Werder head coach
Florian Kohfeldt is
pursuing
two goals in particular
with the
test match
: "That we keep our rhythm and that some players get another 90 minutes, some of whom did not always get it." It was only in August that Werder and
FC St. Pauli
last met in a test.
At that time, Rashica shot Bremen in Lohne to a narrow 1-0 win.
(dco)
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