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Key game against bottom: Why Werder's next appearance against FC Ingolstadt is of enormous importance for Werner

2022-02-17T17:08:08.395Z


Key game against bottom: Why Werder's next appearance against FC Ingolstadt is of enormous importance for Werner Created: 02/17/2022, 17:56 By: Malte Bürger Coach Ole Werner also wants to win a home win against FC Ingolstadt with SV Werder Bremen - it would be Bremen's eighth win in a row. © gumzmedia On Saturday (1:30 p.m. in the DeichStube live ticker), SV Werder Bremen welcome bottom-placed


Key game against bottom: Why Werder's next appearance against FC Ingolstadt is of enormous importance for Werner

Created: 02/17/2022, 17:56

By: Malte Bürger

Coach Ole Werner also wants to win a home win against FC Ingolstadt with SV Werder Bremen - it would be Bremen's eighth win in a row.

© gumzmedia

On Saturday (1:30 p.m. in the DeichStube live ticker), SV Werder Bremen welcome bottom-placed FC Ingolstadt to the Wohninvest Weser Stadium.

Then the team of coach Ole Werner should have their eighth win in a row.

It is a "key game" - the preliminary report of the DeichStube*.

Bremen –

Ole Werner

could make it very easy for himself and just let the shop run.

After all, everything works, as the past seven games with seven wins have proven.

However, that is exactly a calculation that the

SV Werder Bremen

coach does not even begin to work out.

And that's why he emphasizes: "Only constant development leads to you remaining successful as a team at the end of the day." He said this sentence on Thursday during the digital press conference before the home game against

FC Ingolstadt 04

(Saturday, 1.30 p.m.), it was addressed to everyone who believes that there is nothing more that could be improved at Werder.

Werder Bremen vs. FC Ingolstadt: What coach Ole Werner wants to see in the "key game".

Because: as pleasant as the two most recent successes against Karlsruher SC (2-1) and FC Hansa Rostock (2-1) were, they still offered all sorts of lessons.

"Especially recently in Rostock, we had difficulties creating clear goal chances from the game," observed

Ole Werner

.

"The task is to have more activity in depth again in the last third and to play from a clearer structure.

That's definitely something we can improve on and we've been working on this week.” Football is an ongoing process anyway.

Standstill is not only punished in the literal sense on the pitch - but also figuratively.

This not only applies to

Werder Bremen

, but also explicitly to opponents like that

FC Ingolstadt

.

Because the more games the Bremen team play under Ole Werner, the more information they inevitably provide the analysts of the competition.

“Certainly opponents adapt better to what they see us.

Not in such a way that it can be calculated," said Werder's head coach, "but it's true that teams played differently against Werder when they were ninth or sixth than is the case at the moment."

Especially if they don't enjoy being at the top of the rankings.

Then it is better to act primarily from a densely staggered and orderly defensive network, the sphere of action for the Bremen attackers is kept as narrow as possible.

Exactly this scenario is expected by

Ole Werner

in the duel with the bottom of the table

FC Ingolstadt

.

"We'll have to strike a good balance between aggressive thinking and patience, without becoming slow," emphasized the

SV Werder Bremen coach

.

"We have to cover everything we do while in possession and consider what could happen if we lose the ball.

It's important that every player has a task at all times and fulfills it one hundred percent."

The 33-year-old almost sounds as if an absolute top team in the league would travel to the Wohninvest

Weserstadion

, punishing even the smallest mistake mercilessly.

The danger in this regard is not that great for a relegation candidate, but it is there.

And that makes Werner, somewhat surprisingly, come to the unequivocal conclusion: "For me, this is

an absolutely key game

."

"There have always been teams that have chosen a more defensive approach, but we haven't had one that consistently relies on this card," he said, referring to

FC Ingolstadt

, who wants to be successful primarily through counterattacks.

Just like the bottom of the table did almost two weeks ago in a 5-0 coup against 1. FC Nürnberg that was not thought possible.

A spectacle that the Werder Bremen

head coach understandably has little desire

to repeat .

Hence the current safeguard with an audit effect.

"We want to prove that we can do that, too, because this task will come to us again in the remaining games of the season."

Expectations are growing: Will Werder Bremen win against FC Ingolstadt for the eighth time in a row?

It doesn't matter at all that the tabular conditions are more likely to continue the winning streak than an unpleasant slip.

Or as Clemens Fritz,

Werder Bremen

's head of professional football and scouting, put it on Thursday: "The

expectations

in the environment is growing, of course, but for us internally the decisive thing is that we concentrate on preparing for every game.” And that’s not all: “It’s no use for us to plan two or three weeks in advance – a lot can happen come up a lot.

We're up against an opponent who wants to keep their last chances and is incredibly good at switching.

We have to be prepared for that, we have to accept that and bring the intensity and duel sharpness to the pitch.” Because only then, exactly then, can things keep going.

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Source: merkur

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