Home victory in the North Derby against Hamburg, draw at Bayer Leverkusen and a win against Freiburg: Werder can be happy with seven points from the last three Bundesliga matches after a 2-1 victory...
Home victory in the North Derby against Hamburg, draw at Bayer Leverkusen and a win against Freiburg: Werder can be happy with seven points from the last three Bundesliga matches after a 2-1 victory...
Home victory in the North Derby against Hamburg, draw at Bayer Leverkusen and a win against Freiburg: Werder can be happy with seven points from the last three Bundesliga matches after a 2-1 victory over Freiburg. "The trend of the last couple games is positive," confirmed manager Klaus Allofs after the game. But there was not a lot of satisfaction among the Green-Whites. "We can and have to play better. I especially hope that we can play calmer and more poised, best would be right away on Wednesday in the Champions League," said Allofs. Head coach Thomas Schaaf added: "We did not play well. We are satisfied with the result but not with our game."
"All told, we did too much wrong. We knew that Freiburg were playing well and had a clear plan. But we were not able to implement it," said Schaaf. A problem for Werder was mainly the numerous false decisions on their way towards the goal. "We should have better used the counter attack opportunities. If we could have done that we could have had a better result," said Schaaf. "We were careless on the counter attack, we made it too complicated. If we had used all of our chances we could have possibly won 5-1. But our way of playing would not have changed," said Allofs, who also knows that the team must first find the "necessary certainty".
