Bremen in the Relegation: Werder miracle to succeed – part one

four years Ago, when Werder last of the descent threatened, was half the town on the legs. On Easter dike, on the ramp, which leads down to the stadium, people were standing very close together, a sea in Green and White, the coaches of the teams had to pave a chore your way. It is the time of the "Green White Wonderwall", a different, a very, very distant time, which has, of course, with Corona was not – but also only.

Christian Kamp

sports editor.

How joyless the so-called special operation of the game feels, what is really missing, when the mind must be soccer to the exclusion of the audience played, will probably reach nowhere in the League so striking as in Bremen, where the stadium is located as Central as no other, to either picturesquely along the river Weser or through the "quarters", the pubs - and the scene of the heart of the Hanseatic city.

Where else can the good life prevails, where the Fans of the opposing teams get in the mood, this time was before the game, in response to the sporting situation of almost eerie silence and ordinariness – like a Saturday afternoon in the summer break. A couple of jerseys and scarves, a few dozen Fans, maybe, who cheered the Team on arrival.

on the Inside, but a spectacle of Thunder and bluster developed, as hardly anyone had thought possible. As the 90 minutes were played, initially, accompanied by a menacing rumbling and Flashing, solid stand: It goes for Werder not down into the second League, for the second Time after 1980, but in the Relegation, on Thursday at home against Heidenheim, or – in a spicy escalation – Hamburger SV. The return match will take place on the following Monday.

The gates of Yuyo Osako (22. and 58. Minute), Milot Rashica (27.), Niclas Füllkrug (29.), Davy Klaassen (55.) and Joshua Sargent (68.), a goal from Dominick Drexler (62.), made for a Bremen home win, which was remarkable, because Kohfeldts Team had previously won in 16 Try only once – for a total of a meagre nine goals. However, this 6:1 would not have been alone enough against defenseless Cologne, not friends made in Düsseldorf, also when the Fortuna had won in the Union.

the test of nerves and the game in Berlin lost Because you have to but, it goes for you in the second League and for Werder in the extension. It should be enough in the end actually, but still, this last round will wonder, perhaps, part of the narrative of the Werder-even if he was of a different style than those four can recite in Bremen, each (larger) child: Dynamo Berlin, Moscow, Anderlecht, Lyon.