It was a defeat that carried a great deal of disappointment. Nothing much went right for Werder Bremen against Gladbach at the Borussia-Park on Saturday afternoon and the attitude towards the game was all wrong...
It was a defeat that carried a great deal of disappointment. Nothing much went right for Werder Bremen against Gladbach at the Borussia-Park on Saturday afternoon and the attitude towards the game was all wrong...
It was a defeat that carried a great deal of disappointment. Nothing much went right for Werder Bremen against Gladbach at the Borussia-Park on Saturday afternoon and the attitude towards the game was all wrong. It was no wonder that general manager Klaus Allofs was extremely frustrated after the game: „There is no explanation for this performance. Of course you can always have a bad day, but to display the lack of passion that we did today is something I've never experienced before. I have seldom been so disappointed. The way we played today hurt a lot more than the three points that we dropped.“
Allofs continued: „Without disrespecting Gladbach, we should simply be the better team. We knew that it wouldn't be easy here and that we would have to be determined and aggressive, but all of that was missing. You can't go away and play like that. We just took everything as it came. When you are 0-3 down and nothing is working, then you have to start thinking about what needs to be done. We collectively failed to fulfil the task in hand.“
Head coach Thomas Schaaf was no less annoyed about the performance of his team: „Gladbach played well. They were energetic, aggressive, passionate, up for the battle - all things that we were missing. If you don't give your all, when the basic attitude towards the task is wrong and you think you can get things going just with an ability to play football then you won't win a single game.“ Throughout the last week there were no signs that such a set-back was on the cards: „You couldn't have seen that coming. We trained well, everything worked out. Nothing worked out today,“ said Schaaf.
