Werder take the points from a game with many faces

The beautiful game! Diego celebrates his goal, which made it 3-1 intermittently.
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Sunday, 28.09.2008 / 13:41

It was a game which caused heart palpitations, angry outbursts and unrelenting joy! The fans in the stadium and watching on TV at home were served up a genuine treat. Werder versus Hoffenheim...

It was a game which caused heart palpitations, angry outbursts and unrelenting joy! The fans in the stadium and watching on TV at home were served up a genuine treat. Werder versus Hoffenheim! The ultimate in attacking football with goals galore and a nail-biting finish! Experiencing such a game on the pitch could not have been easy, and that was clear from the statements made after the final whistle, with those interviewed finding either no words to describe their feelings or just letting their emotions flow.

 

“You couldn’t survive games like that every week,” commented Clemens Fritz. “4-1, 4-4, 5-4 – that was really crazy,” grinned Mesut Özil. Hoffenheim coach Ralf Rangnick had to admit: “We are quite simply brutally disappointed. We should have never lost that game 5-4. We really can’t believe what happened here.” At times during the game, some of the Werder players didn’t feel quite so good either: “When you throw away a 4-1 lead, you really flip-out on the pitch,” explained Torsten Frings and Per Mertesacker commented on the minutes after he had received his marching orders: “I was really shaking in the dressing room watching the television. It is absolutely horrible when you have no influence over proceedings.”

 

Both Frings and general manager Klaus Allofs were deeply impressed by the spirit the team showed: “In the period after Hoffenheim had made it 4-4 anything could have happened. The situation was much more difficult for us, being a man down and in the knowledge that we had squandered a 4-1 lead. But everyone knows that we can be very dangerous in such circumstances,” praised Frings, and he continued: “When you can turn a game like that back in your favour, it’s a true example of the morale within the side. That’s a real team!”

 

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