Rescue of Schalke 04? Please! But not at the expense of SV Werder Bremen

For SV Werder Bremen there is the next big showdown in the Bundesliga relegation battle on matchday 19.

On Saturday (3.30 p.m., DeichStube live ticker), the Bremen team will receive Schalke 04 at the bottom of the table in the Weserstadion.

But: caution is advised!

The preliminary report of the DeichStube *.

Bremen - The idea that he could actually have planned it that way before the start of the press conference is pretty scary and, obviously, it is even more absurd.

In the end, there were these remarkable numbers on the clock.

When

Werder Bremen's

coach

Florian Kohfeldt finished

his extensive remarks about the upcoming opponent

Schalke 04

during the press conference on Thursday

, he had spoken for exactly 4:04 minutes, which was a nice coincidence.

And what was more, a kind of icing on the cake for Kohfeldt's Schalke speech, which was given in a slightly modified form before the guest performance in Bremen (Saturday, 3:30 p.m., DeichStube

live ticker

) would certainly also be suitable as a motivational speech in the royal blue cabin.

"

Schalke 04

, that's football, that's emotions," said Kohfeldt, for example, "a club that I would like to see in the

Bundesliga

" because games against Schalke "are always experiences".

For the opponents, it was quite often pleasant experiences this season, which can be seen from the fact that Schalke traveled to the Weser as bottom of the table.

Only seven points after 18 match days, lost the last three duels - experience shows that the risk of underestimating such an opponent is great because it sometimes even happens unconsciously.

That's probably why Kohfeldt's Schalke monologue: to warn and wake up his own team.

Because this game on Saturday afternoon - for

Werder Bremen

it is both an opportunity and a danger.

Werder Bremen want to improve their good starting position in the relegation battle against Schalke 04

In the event of a win,

Werder Bremen

, currently 13th with 21 points, would dock fairly firmly in the secured midfield of the table and also preserve the chance of being able to put the relegation battle against Arminia Bielefeld as good as a file on the following week.

"For us it is a week in which we are able to further improve our situation in two competitions," said Kohfeldt and included the DFB Cup round of 16 against the second division Greuther Fürth (Tuesday, 8.45pm) .

The coach did not allow himself any more outlook, because he knows about the danger that this

Schalke game

harbors.

In the past it was almost a trademark of

Werder Bremen

to suddenly deliver surprisingly poor performance after surprisingly good performances or at least after a sense of achievement and thus deprive themselves of opportunities.

Kohfeldt has been working for a long time to get this quirk out of the team - and currently, it seems, his work is bearing fruit.

So far in the current season there has only been a very steep “first-proper-then-suddenly-weak-gradient”: won 1-0 in Mainz, then a desolate 2-0 draw against Union Berlin.

To prevent such kinks in the performance curve from repeating, Kohfeldt repeats himself, almost mantra-like and therefore not surprisingly before the game against

FC

Schalke 04

: "It only works if everyone is always 100 percent in focus."

Werder Bremen against Schalke 04: "If someone gives up, we don't have a chance in any game"

From Friday evening, when the team retires to the hotel before home games, as always, “we have to make it clear that we must all be vigilant from the first to the last second,” demanded the coach.

If that succeeds, he has a "certain optimism" with a view to the game against

Schalke

.

But if it fails there, he also schwant against lurching Schalke evil: "When one wears off, we have in any Bundesliga game a try." Alarming rates that do not at first really to become quite passable starting position of

Bremen Werder

want to fit, but would never do without the Kohfeldt.

Because his still very young team apparently needs them regularly as a public linguistic support.

And because of course the memory of the almost relegation last year has not faded for a long time.

Even seven points from the last four games do not change that much for the time being, with all the self-confidence that they certainly brought.

"You can tell in the team that there is a belief that we can score regularly", reported

Florian Kohfeldt

. Against

Schalke 04

,

Werder Bremen should

now be able to see it again on the pitch - as was the case last at 4-1 in Berlin and before that at 0-1 in Gladbach. Because despite all the sympathy with the “big traditional club” S04 and its “insane fan base” - Kohfeldt did not forget one very central sentence in his 04:04 speech: “I'm looking exactly there and hope that it will work for you if you stay in the league . Just not at our expense. ”(Dco)

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