SV Werder Bremen wants to score points again on the 28th Bundesliga matchday against RB Leipzig after three league bankruptcies in a row and take another step towards relegation.
The preliminary report of the DeichStube *.
Bremen - It was a painful experience that
Werder Bremen
had to gain four months ago, and one of the kind that will have a long-lasting effect.
Which simply cannot be shaken off.
Schauplatz Leipzig, RB-Arena, near the large festival meadow, where Michael Jackson and the Rolling Stones once performed, which of course did not play a role for Bremen on December 12th, 2020.
After all, they had more than enough to do themselves not to chase the music that was relevant to them too much.
In the end it didn't work out.
During the first leg against
RB Leipzig
, there was a 2-0 defeat in the end, which was not a debacle in terms of height, but in all other respects it was one thing above all for the Bremen team: sobering.
"We weren't bad that day, but just not good enough to beat Leipzig," remembers Werder coach Florian Kohfeldt, who looked back several times over the course of the season in the direction of the Leipziger Festwiese to be the only one to date that his team had no chance.
Keyword: painful experience.
On Saturday it should finally be overwritten when Leipzig visits Bremen for the second leg and
Werder Bremen has
important points against the negative trend.
Werder Bremen against RB Leipzig under pressure?
Not for Florian Kohfeldt
Against Bayern, against Wolfsburg and also in Stuttgart there was
nothing
for
Werder Bremen
to gain recently, so they suffered three defeats in a row, which in turn crumbled the lead over the unpleasant table region from a comfortable eleven to a still decent seven points.
In view of the quality of the upcoming opponents (after the Leipzig game, Werder will go to Dortmund), the starting position in the table is quite tense, which Kohfeldt either does not show or simply does not feel that way.
“If you want to describe such a situation as pressure, then the pressure was never gone,” says the 38-year-old and emphasizes with a view to the season's goal of “stable relegation”: “Nobody here said that something had already been decided.
In any case, I've never gone to bed at night this season and thought: Great, we'll definitely play the first division here next year. ”But that wasn't real worries, and he would only worry“ if we lost our minds would act and have no stability ".
The coach has not been able to determine either of these in the past few weeks despite the defeats.
Werder Bremen: Opponent RB Leipzig provides Wolfsburg with the best defense in the league
Indeed, it should not go unmentioned that
Werder Bremen
did not uproot any trees in the most recent games, but on the other hand they did not necessarily have luck on their side.
Without the own goals from Josh Sargent (during the 1: 2 against Wolfsburg) and Ludwig Augustinsson (during the 0: 1 in Stuttgart) one point or another could have jumped out.
Because it didn't work out, it should now be made up against the table runner-up from Leipzig, against a team that, together with Wolfsburg, has the best defensive in the league - and which should travel to Bremen with plenty of determination after the bitter 0: 1 against Bayern .
Because even a draw against
Werder Bremen
would crush Leipzig's remaining hopes of winning the title, as otherwise only empty soda cans on shoe soles know.
Wereder Bremen and RB Leipzig will meet again in the DFB Cup
In order to be able to provide for the big surprise (because nothing else would be Bremen points against the Saxons), Kohfeldt of course also watched the painful first leg again.
"We have already considered again what options we have to influence certain dynamics in the game differently," he says, which should probably sound deliberately vague, but should mean nothing other than: What we can do in order not to be without a chance again .
Kohfeldt rightly points out that compared to the 2-0 draw on Saturday, things will be different, the personnel situation on both sides, for example - and above all: Werder's quality.
"I think that we have developed significantly in terms of play since the first leg, especially when building up the game against strong pressing teams," says the coach. The basic level in Bremen has also risen overall. "And of course it wouldn't bother me if Leipzig didn't get 100 percent," smiles Kohfeldt, who of course would do nothing better than the omens before the DFB Cup semifinals, in which both teams will meet again on April 30th encounter to reverse through a success in league game. Self-confident Bremers here, Leipzigers with a painful experience in their memories there -
that would definitely have something
for
Werder Bremen
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