Werder before top game against Darmstadt 98: "We won't hide"
Created: 03/18/2022, 16:51
By: Bjorn Knips
Werder Bremen and coach Ole Werner face a difficult top game against leaders SV Darmstadt 98 on Saturday (8.30 p.m., DeichStube live ticker).
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SV Werder Bremen will play against SV Darmstadt 98 in the top game of the 2nd Bundesliga on Saturday (8.30 p.m., DeichStube live ticker).
Bremen – It was truly a week to forget for
SV Werder Bremen
, after all there was not only the 1:2 bankruptcy in Heidenheim, but also one personal bad news after the other.
Many a fan is in the mood for the top game on Saturday against
SV Darmstadt 98
(8.30 p.m.,
DeichStube live ticker
) in the Wohninvest Weserstadion may have passed.
Not so Ole Werner, the Werder coach presented himself as conspicuously combative at the digital press conference before the duel with the leader on Friday: "I'm far from whining or crying here.
It is of course the case that we are missing important players – no question about it.
But as long as I'm here we won't hide, we'll throw our strengths into the ring and trust that our strengths will prevail at the end of a night of football."
Werder Bremen against SV Darmstadt 98: Coach Ole Werner does not want to whine despite many injured players
However,
Werder Bremen
was robbed of some strengths.
Ömer Toprak, Mitchell Weiser and Marco Friedl are injured for several weeks.
That tears a huge hole in the five-man chain, the defense has to be repositioned.
But it got even worse for Bremen: On Thursday, top striker Marvin Ducksch tested positive for Corona.
He too must be replaced.
"We can all hug each other now and complain about how hard fate has hit us," said
Ole Werner
, adding immediately: "Or we just go out and try to do the best we can on the pitch.
And we will choose this behavior!”
A plan has long been in Werner's head as to how it can work without the four top performers.
He just doesn't want to reveal it.
"Anything is possible," said the 33-year-old before the game against
SV Darmstadt 98
and grinned mischievously: "This situation at least has the advantage that the opponent doesn't know how we're going to play." In these special days we just try to somehow turn everything into a positive.
It is noticeable that Werner, like when he joined
Werder Bremen
three months ago after the vaccination scandal surrounding Markus Beginning, is trying to do one thing above all: to radiate calm and confidence.
The coach faces every storm and is not blown away by his first defeat with the green-whites or by the numerous failures.
Werder Bremen versus SV Darmstadt 98: Top game of the 2nd Bundesliga in a full Weser Stadium
His confidence should also be transferred to the fans of
SV Werder Bremen
against
Darmstadt 98
.
For the first time this year, they can ensure a sold-out Weser Stadium - and they will do exactly that.
Only the guest area will not be completely full, only 1,000 Darmstadt residents want to cheer on the spot and will have a hard time against the 40,000 green-whites.
"That can only inspire us," says
Ole Werner happily
to his first game with the full Werder fan power.
This will also be necessary, as the coach expressly emphasized: "It's a top game!
A team is coming to Bremen that has been very, very good in recent weeks and is having a consistently good season.
It's quite a task for us.” But one that, despite all the unpleasant background noise, should also be fun.
(kni) *
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