It was quite a shock! The home defeat to lowly MSV Duisburg was a defeat that even general manager Klaus Allofs found difficult to digest: “We are certainly not completely stumped, but quite astounded, that we are so out of form at the moment. It was not a compact team performance, nor did we witness the sort of joy and mobility in playing the game that we expect. We made mistakes in every aspect of our game. It was quite surprising.”
Now there is an eminently important away game on the schedule at Herha BSC Berlin looming and Allofs has laid down the gauntlet to his players: “We need to work and endeavour for a win.” On the subject of the rumoured return of former Werder striker Claudio Pizzaro to Bremen Allofs made it clear: “There is now background to this and it is not a subject for us.”