The charter flight containing the Werder Bremen squad took off with a twenty minute delay at Bremen Airport this morning. A broken steel cable was to blame for the short delay but the atmosphere remained boyant amoung the Green-Whites.
The charter flight containing the Werder Bremen squad took off with a twenty minute delay at Bremen Airport this morning. A broken steel cable was to blame for the short delay but the atmosphere remained boyant amoung the Green-Whites.
The charter flight containing the Werder Bremen squad took off with a twenty minute delay at Bremen Airport this morning. A broken steel cable was to blame for the short delay but the atmosphere remained boyant amoung the Green-Whites.
Micoud, Klose and Co. headed off in confident mood despite the clear roll as underdogs. The Green-Whites intend to get themselves in the Werder history books with their trip to Turin: "If we progress we'll be written into the history books", glowed Tim Borowski euphorically. The normally more reserved Thomas Schaaf was equally as excited: "How often have we been in the quarter finals of the Champions League? Not yet. We'd go down in history if we were to reach the next round. We have the opportunity to show ourselves from our best side on the best possible forum." The progression to the quarter finals of the European Cup quarter finals in the 1988/1989 season was the clubs greatest success to date.
A particular wished result for the game wasn't as easy to squeeze out of the tight lipped trainer: "For us it's got to be about putting on a good performance.". Team captain Frank Baumann, who as expected took his place on the flight after recovering from a knee injury, is in agreement: "We can't really set out our tactical stall. If Juve were to get an early goal then we'd be forced to start from scratch. Especially in such knock-out games, the tactical concept changes several times within the 90 minutes. Juve are favourites but are under a lot more pressure than we are", explained the captain.
The fact that this pressure can increase on the Champions League winner from 1996 is clear to Thomas Schaaf: "We won the last game so we are not going to plonk ten men in front of our keeper for this one", the coach is expecting a more attacking performance from the Italians as they showed at the Weser Stadium: "They know now that we can really move the ball around well and for that reason they'll be looking to take charge from the kick off and play more offensively than last time around." Schaaf is looking forward to the tie: "We know that we've got a top game against a super opponent agead of us."
Johnnie Muldoon
