There is no question that things hadn’t exactly been going according to plan for Werder Bremen in recent weeks and, in particular, the attacking department have been swallowing some pretty hefty criticism.
There is no question that things hadn’t exactly been going according to plan for Werder Bremen in recent weeks and, in particular, the attacking department have been swallowing some pretty hefty criticism.
There is no question that things hadn’t exactly been going according to plan for Werder Bremen in recent weeks and, in particular, the attacking department have been swallowing some pretty hefty criticism. As the game against Hertha BSC Berlin indicated, the Green-Whites are on the up-and-up and that trend continued against FC Schalke 04. It would appear that Thomas Schaaf’s men have found a way back to their former strength.
Probably the best example of that is Boubacar Sanogo. The striker from the Ivory Coast had hit some really poor form and failed to even make the squad for last week’s trip to Berlin but he got the chance to prove himself against Schalke and took that impressively. It was Sanogo’s well placed header which made it 2:0 during the first half, but he wasn’t the only one to find the ‘Golden-Touch’ yesterday.
‘Ice-Cold’ is not exactly a term which had been used often of late when describing the Werder strikers but against Schalke 04, the Green-Whites finally found their attackers back in form. All three front men (Boubacar Sanogo, Markus Rosenberg and Ivan Klasnic) got their names on the score-sheet: “We always seem to create chances but sometimes the conversion of those chances eludes us. Today our strikers were ice-cold in front of the goal”, remarked a satisfied Torsten Frings, and goalkeeper Tim Wiese added: “Today almost every chance was a goal. I just hope that continues.”
