Not even at their fifth attempt in succession could Werder Bremen manage a win in their opening game in a Champions League group stage. The disillusionment was clear...
Not even at their fifth attempt in succession could Werder Bremen manage a win in their opening game in a Champions League group stage. The disillusionment was clear...
Not even at their fifth attempt in succession could Werder Bremen manage a win in their opening game in a Champions League group stage. The disillusionment was clear, the Green-Whites would so dearly loved to have claimed all three points: “I hope the team are disappointed! I expect that everybody knows what they have thrown away here. We would have gone to Milan on the back of a win. That would have given us more security, but also offered us more opportunities to vary our game when we went there,” commented Klaus Allofs.
In spite of wasting an initial chance, the battle for the two top places at the top of Group B is still wide open. It was the message that those involved in the game portrayed as they dealt with their frustration. Head coach Thomas Schaaf said: “The situation in our group hasn’t changed. Even if we’d won we would have still needed to continue gathering points.”
The plan is now to quickly pick up those dropped points: “We missed out on the chance to put ourselves in a very good position. Really you have to win your home games if you want to progress in the competition. Now we must travel to Milan, and we don’t have much to lose there, but we are capable of taking something from that game,” said Clemens Fritz. Per Mertesacker agreed: “I don’t believe that means that we have forgotten how to play the game. We will rise to the challenge. Who knows how valuable that point could be.”
