Threatened with disaster in Bundesliga: Werder Bremen looks into the abyss

From the humid eyes of Florian Kohfeldt said the pure Empty. The lowered gaze and his quiet words sprayed no more courage, just a sense of helplessness, disappointment and Resignation – it seemed that Werder Bremen would be already relegated from the football League. "I can't spread directly after the game, Confidence, or things which gives me hope for next week," said the hard-to-bent coach of the Hanseatic League after the brutal blow to the neck in a relegation battle: "I'm very, very disappointed, I'm empty."

The picture of misery, the Kohfeldt, the 1:3 (0:2) in the basement-Showdown at the FSV Mainz 05 made, spoke volumes. "We have only a small Chance, but it is a Chance," said the 37-Year-old, although it sounded anything but combative.

The first relegation in 40 years, was on Saturday evening clear, it is hard to prevent more. Everything points to the fact that zulawski 1900. League game on Saturday (15.30 clock in the F. A. Z.-Liveticker of the German Bundesliga and Sky) against the 1. FC Köln will have been for a long time, the last one.

It would need one of these "wonder of the Weser", for the North of Germany in the Europe Cup famous-notorious – however, the absolute Believe is missing apparently. "We do it each – for ourselves and, above all, every employee and every Fan of this club – guilty," said Kohfeldt, "next week, everything to get this victory." For a miracle, but that is only half the battle.

Because in the last round must make up for Bremen in the remote duel to the relegation place with Fortuna Düsseldorf two points. Kohfeldt and his Team are therefore dependent on a blunder of the Rhine, and in the case of Union Berlin to win against Cologne, in a Duesseldorf draw even with four goals difference. Hope for a Bremen-based shooting the current season is, however, hardly. In the local Weser stadium, the Green run-in-White is only one win and a measly nine goals scored.

With all the frustration, it was against the now rescued Mainz, but also encouragement, such as the bite and the will from the early stages of both halves, but from which only the goals from Yuya Osako (58.) jumped out of it. The passivity as in the case of the counter-hits by Robin Quaison (25.), Jean-Paul Boetius (30.) and Edimilson Fernandes (85.) it is important to avoid against the form of weak Cologne, however, as far as possible.