Werder Bremen meets RB Leipzig.
In the DFB Cup, the focus is on the two coaches Florian Kohfeldt and Julian Nagelsmann.
The semi-finals in the live ticker.
SV Werder Bremen - RB Leipzig -: - (- :-), Friday, 8.30 p.m.
DFB Cup: In the semifinals there will be a duel between Bremen and Leipzig.
RB coach Julian Nagelsmann wants to say goodbye with a title, Werder coach Florian Kohfeldt initiate the turnaround.
We accompany the cup semifinals in the live ticker.
Bremen - While the Bundesliga is taking a break this weekend, the semi-finals of the DFB Cup * will take place.
Werder Bremen * will receive RB Leipzig * in their home Weserstadion on Friday evening.
The trophy should be a welcome distraction for both teams, as there were other concerns in the club recently - it was about the coach.
Ironically, in the week before the important cup game in Bremen, the Nagelsmann bomb burst.
Leipzig coach Julian Nagelsmann * will move to FC Bayern in the summer after two years in Saxony and will succeed Hansi Flick.
The Landsberger wanted to fulfill his lifelong dream, his club had to swallow the bitter pill, but can at least comfort itself with a high transfer fee.
A new coach has already been signed with Jesse Marsch. *
Werder Bremen against RB Leipzig in the live ticker: RB boss calls for Nagelsmann to win the cup
“Julian will of course still concentrate on Leipzig now.
I assume that he gives 150 percent.
We want to play a record season, ”said RB managing director Oliver Mintzlaff on Tuesday.
“We wanted clarity,” explained Mintzlaff.
“We stand behind these decisions.
We still expect Julian to deliver the title here before he leaves for Munich. ”The pressure on Nagelsmann is high.
He could crown his time in Leipzig by winning the cup, and having a title in his luggage would also make his new job easier.
If things go wrong against Bremen, there should of course be criticism.
Nagelsmann does not want to use the excitement about the change of coach as an excuse.
“I haven't spoken to every single player.
The training was good, that was a good indicator.
It was commensurate with what to expect on Friday.
You couldn't see any influence on the performance, ”the 33-year-old clarified.
Werder Bremen against RB Leipzig in the live ticker: Final for Werder coach Kohfeldt
Werder Bremen has been stumbling towards relegation in recent weeks.
The green-whites have all lost the last seven league games, including a hearty 1: 4 at home against Leipzig three weeks ago.
In the cup against the upcoming runner-up, the North Germans actually have nothing to lose - a dangerous constellation for RB.
However, there has recently been a lot of unrest around coach Florian Kohfeldt.
After the 1: 3 bankruptcy against Union Berlin, Kohfeldt was on the verge of collapse.
After a lack of commitment by the bosses, the topic became a hangover.
After two days of deliberations, the club's management had ultimately expressed their trust in the coach, albeit on probation.
A reaction is now expected.
"It is important that we manage a turnaround and see a different appearance," demanded sports director Frank Baumann.
Werder Bremen against RB Leipzig in the live ticker: Even moderator legend Wontorra turns on
The television journalist and supervisory board candidate Jörg Wontorra also got involved in the farce around Kohfeldt and sharply criticized the Bremen bosses.
“It is no longer understandable and no longer acceptable that the personnel management of SV Werder stumbled idly through the greatest crisis in the club's history.
Because with her policy, which is characterized by hesitation and hesitation, she opens the door to sporting bankruptcy, ”says Wontorra in a joint letter with Maria Yaiza Stüven Sanchez.
Stüven Sanchez and Wontorra are running for the Bremen supervisory board and stand for a union of fans under the name “Kein-weiter-so”.
Both of them called their dealings with trainer Florian Kohfeldt “unprofessional and disrespectful”. Stüven Sanchez and Wontorra criticized the coach "after the lack of commitment at the weekend was initially publicly dismantled". The “pronounced probationary period” was “not suitable to rehabilitate him. A future with Kohfeldt is hardly conceivable, even after a rescue, because he was too damaged for that ”, the article says. With a cup coup against Leipzig, the turnaround might still be possible.
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