League leader in Rostock?

Werder wants to concentrate fully on themselves and not think about dangers and opportunities

Created: 2022-02-09 20:24

By: Malte Bürger

Coach Ole Werner sets the direction at SV Werder Bremen: forward!

Will the winning streak against FC Hansa Rostock last?

© imago images / Ulrich Hufnagel

It's a little like the pink elephant thing.

When the request comes not to think about it, a colored pachyderm stomps into the mental field of vision.

And it was like that all too often in football.

Whenever an opponent shouldn't be underestimated at all, that's exactly what happened subconsciously on the pitch and the performance suddenly wasn't right anymore.

In this respect, the next away game of SV Werder Bremen poses great dangers, after all, the Bremen team is the clear favorite to travel to FC Hansa Rostock (Friday, 6.30 p.m. in the live ticker of the DeichStube*).

So should the winning streak that has been built up so laboriously end with the twelfth place in the table of all places?

Bremen – At

they do everything to ensure that it doesn't happen that way.

And maybe that was what the

Rostocker fabricated the previous week, the best thing that could have happened to

and his team.

Then

Hansa's recent 4-1 win at Dynamo Dresden was not only impressive, but also an easy-to-understand warning sign.

And before actually taking the current meeting lightly in any way.

But nobody at Werder would have anyway, as the head coach emphasized on Wednesday during the digital matchday press conference: "It made it clear once again what

played especially after the winter - especially with the new signings that they got again," said Werner.

"This is a team that has almost not scored enough points from the last few games.

In any case, none of this comes as a surprise to me.”

Werder Bremen against FC Hansa Rostock: Will coach Ole Werner's series last?

In addition to the win against Dresden,

also wrested a 0-0 draw from 1. FC Heidenheim – after all, Bremen's direct competitor in the top flight.

Before that, despite the best of opportunities, there was an unfortunate 1-0 defeat against Hannover 96. "In this respect,"

was certain, "we can expect a team that is very aggressive at home." And possibly, like some other teams in the Liga, mighty keen on the run from

to end.

"It may be that opponents see us as a team that's in good spirits and there is a certain hunger to be the one to trip us up," said the 33-year-old.

“I counteract this by concentrating on our work.

We have to prepare our training content during the week in such a way that we are good on the pitch at the weekend.

But it's also important that we get through the way we play football."

is not particularly

interested in anything else .

He would rather get himself and his crew into the tunnel than be distracted by outlandish things to the left and right of the path.

The talk of spoilsports or series destroyers therefore leaves him cold.

As well as the chance to lead the

to take over.

“We don't deal with related topics, only with our own performance.

That's what I'm focusing on in preparation and when addressing the team," emphasized Werner.

“The table doesn't have much significance on the 22nd matchday.

We want to get three points and we believe we can do that.

But we also know that it will be hard work.

The table only plays a role later.”

But only if

does its job properly and successfully in the coming weeks.

Especially since there is still something to improve even after six wins in a row.

"For example, creating chances against a low-lying opponent - that was what we learned from the Karlsruhe game," explained

, who once again attached great importance to this during this short training week.

"However, I now expect

a different orientation against

In other words: that they will run up to us relatively high.” But he will also prepare his players for that.

With a win against FC Hansa Rostock, Werder Bremen beckons to lead the table in the 2nd Bundesliga

And so the journalists who joined the team bit their teeth on Wednesday when they tried to

elicit a special meaning from the head coach of

for the upcoming match at

After all, there was one last try.

If the continuation of the series or the possible lead in the table is not particularly worth mentioning, then perhaps at least the good opportunity to present and to be able to put some pressure on the competition with a win.

But

, he didn't play this time either.

Instead, as usual, he replied calmly: "Later in the season it can play a role because an opponent may know that they absolutely have to win or what result they need to stay ahead of you.

But not yet.” And his team shouldn’t think about it that way either.

But that's just the thing sometimes.

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