Werder Bremen and the "nerve game" from Augsburg

During the official press conferences on Thursday - one in Bremen, the other a good 700 kilometers further south in Bobingen, where FC Augsburg holds its quarantine training camp - there was this one word that Florian Kohfeldt and Markus Weinzierl simply couldn't get past. Both the SV Werder Bremen coach and the FCA coach used it independently to describe the duel between their two teams on Saturday afternoon. The word was: "Nervespiel". 

Bremen / Augsburg - And it pretty much got to the point.

Because if the table 15.

(31 points)

on the penultimate match day at 14.

(33) (Saturday, 3.30 p.m. in the live ticker of the

), then the

in

its

.

A duel on equal terms.

Right on the edge.

So it's no wonder that both coaches tried to take verbal steps towards rescue beforehand.

Werder Bremen: The final in the relegation battle against FC Augsburg becomes a nerve game for Florian Kohfeldt and Co.

In the north, with

, it sounded like this: “I think that we have seen a significant increase in performance in the last two games.” Weinzierl, on the other hand, no less optimistic, emphasized: “We have no worries, we only have one Great opportunity! ”In fact,

can

their league with a home win against

perfect what puts them, at least on paper, in the somewhat more relaxed starting position. However, the team will have to compete on the last day of the match at champions FC Bayern Munich, who will receive the cup after the game - and will certainly not want to experience that with a previous loss. When Weinzierl speaks of the "match ball" before the duel with Werder, then at least indirectly the fear that there

might

not be much more

to get

for his

afterwards

.

Florian Kohfeldt

may therefore be counting on “determined Augsburgers” who “will quickly look for depth” during the game. However, Werder will not face their opponents as defensively as the top teams RB Leipzig in the cup (1: 2 afterwards) and then Bayer Leverkusen (0: 0). "We will certainly have to find one or the other playful solution more than in the last few weeks, because we will probably have the ball more often," said Kohfeldt looking ahead. The main motto of the past few weeks should not change for his team: "We have

to bring

onto the pitch." After all,

urgently dependent on an away win in order not to slip into an almost hopeless position before the season finale against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

It is, if you like, a clear parallel to

the previous

season, when

the opportunity to take a big step towards relegation on the penultimate matchday in Mainz. It was not used at 1: 3. At the end of the season, however, the relegation against Heidenheim turned out to be light, which

now speak of an "experience value" that can be transformed into an "added value". “Looking back, we know what made us survive last year. We are now trying to bring up these points again, ”said the 38-year-old. Of course, there is no guarantee that it will work again: “That would be a fatal fallacy.” Especially since

knows pretty well from the past what it feels like to have to tremble for a long time.

- they have almost become normal for both clubs.

This is annoying because it is stressful, but it can at least offer the small advantage that the trainers now know exactly which of their professionals can handle pressure particularly well.

And which ones not so much.

Werder Bremen: relegation or relegation?

The team of coach Florian Kohfeldt has to score at FC Augsburg

"Unfortunately, I've already been through a lot of

with Werder and of course I know from one or the other player how he reacts to this situation," said Kohfeldt, who called the selection of the staff on Saturday a "decisive factor". “In the last few weeks,” the coach reported, referring to Leipzig and Leverkusen again, “we have found players who have shown that they can do it”. Who can keep their nerves in a game of nerves. In

, that

should ultimately lead to another win

for

. (dco)

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