Werder Bremen knocked off Freiburg 2-1 on the eighth game day in their home match at Weser Stadium. Aaron Hunt and Hugo Almeida scored Werder’s goals. Julian Schuster scored for...
Werder Bremen knocked off Freiburg 2-1 on the eighth game day in their home match at Weser Stadium. Aaron Hunt and Hugo Almeida scored Werder’s goals. Julian Schuster scored for...
Werder Bremen knocked off Freiburg 2-1 on the eighth game day in their home match at Weser Stadium. Aaron Hunt and Hugo Almeida scored Werder’s goals. Julian Schuster scored for Freiburg to make it 1-1.
Thomas Schaaf made three changes to his line-up with Clemens Fritz, Torsten Frings and Hugo Ameida starting for Petri Pasanen, Philipp Bargfrede and Daniel Jensen. The first chance of the game went to the guests as Cedrick Makiadi shot just wide against Tim Wiese in the second minute. And Hugo Almeida missed a looper in the 13th minute for Werder.
The game remained open and up-tempo and the Green-Whites finally grabbed the lead in the 33rd minute through Aaron Hunt, who saw a blocked attempt come to his feet before blasting home from 25 yards to make it 1-0. That was also the score at halftime and the lead was deserved as Werder had more run of play.
Werder nearly doubled the lead in the 52nd minute but Marko Marin’s pass did not reach a good-positioned Hugo Almeida. And then Freiburg knotted the game in the 62nd minute with a fine counter attack. Makiadi fed a through ball to Julian Schuster and Tim Wiese could not stop Schuster’s shot to make it 1-1.
Thomas Schaaf reacted immediately and brought on Claudio Pizarro for Mikael Silvestre in the 69th minute for another forward. And the Peruvian Pizarro fought his way through the left side four minutes later and crossed to Almeida, whose fine header gave Werder a 2-1 lead and the victory.
Werder Bremen: Wiese – Fritz, Mertesacker, Prödl, Silvestre (69’ Pizarro) – Frings, Wesley – Hunt (90’ Bargfrede), Marin, Arnautovic – Almeida; reserves: Mielitz, Pasanen, Borowski, Kroos, Jensen
Freiburg: Baumann – Mujdza, Barth, Toprak, Bastians – Schuster, Abdessadki (88’ Reisinger), Makiadi, Caligiuri (75’ Yano), Nicu (77’ Putsila) – Cissé; reserves: Salz, Sereinig, Williams, Pamic
Goals: 1-0 Hunt (33’), 1-1 Schuster (62’), 2-1 Almeida (73’)
Yellow cards: –
Referee: Babak Rafati (Hannover)
Weser Stadium: 34,500 spectators (sold out)
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