2006 In Review : The Goals

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Thursday, 28.12.2006 / 16:13

„Football is a ball sport with two teams, each containing eleven players competeing against each other, with the goal of getting the ball into the opposition net.“

„Football is a ball sport with two teams, each containing eleven players competeing against each other, with the goal of getting the ball into the opposition net.“ Getting the ball into the oppositions net – it sounds so easy but is a science all of it’s own. It can be done rarely or regularly. In 2006 Werder Bremen managed to do it 96 times – that’s a lot!! It can be done with ease or in spectacular fashion. Werder’s goals were often in the latter category. The most memorable have been put together here.

 

The most beautiful – Klose’s first on the ‘Day of the Weak Feet’

 

On the penultimate day of the last season, Werder put on a gala performance against the already relegated FC Cologne. Tim Borowski, Miroslav Klose and Ivan Klasnic each notched up a brace to batter the visitors 6:0. The highlight of the game was the second goal. Miroslav Klose’s 23 goal of the season, his most beautiful goal – as he recently commented himself. International strike partner Lukas Podolski miscued an attempted clearance in the box which bounced once before Klose took it on the full and buried it into the top right corner of the net. A dream goal with his ‘Weak’ foot – 2:0, front-flip, thank you very much!

 

Klose ability to do things with more style was prove by the striker on the day with two perfectly weighted passes with the outside of his right boot which both lead to Werder goals. Tim Borowski got on the end of Klose’s first dream pass to make it 3:0. On a day when the strikers were at it with their weaker feet, Ivan Klasnic too wanted in on the act. With a text book counter attack through Frings and Jensen fell to the Croatian international who appeared to have lost control of the ball but somehow regained his poise and was able to shove the ball into the far corner to make it 5:0.

 

www.kicker.de - for that game and all it’s rarities…

 

The most important goal

 

A quick recap! It’s the 34th match of the season at the AOL-Arena in Hamburg and we are in the 72nd minute. On the half way line Torsten Frings plays the ball square to Daniel Jensen who danced around David Jarloim and delivered into the box. A mid air battle of the giants between Naldo and Daniel van Buyten was won by the lanky Brazilian. The ball floated through the five yard box past a desperate Atouba and a stunned Boulahrouz to a perfectly placed Miroslav Klose, who perfectly placed the ball past the keeper to give Werder the perfect result.

 

AOL-Arena, 34th and final match day of the season, 72nd minute Hamburg (2nd) – Werder (3rd) 1:2 what more needs to be said.

 

www.mopo.de – ‘Cannibal’ Boulahrouz’s plans for the game…

 

Sensational wins – Werder wonders against the big guns

 

Just imagine you are playing Juventus Turin, have 70% of the possession, you’re leading 1:0 and are putting on “One of the best ever Werder performances”, (Dieter Eilts) – and with just minutes on the clock find yourself 1:2 down. What is that? – Exactly, unjust!! That is also how the Werder players and bosses saw it, particularly considering the manner in which Juventus got their second. The kind of lucky goal that occurs when you have twenty plaers in the penalty area. After Tim Borowski had pulled Werder back to 2:2, the Green-Whites won a corner. Patrick Owomoyela got his head to the ball in a tightly packed box and just as all seemed harmless, in stole Johan Micoud with a header which eluded Allesandro del Piero on the near post to make it 3:2 for Werder in the first leg of the last sixteen of the Champions League against the Italian legends. Werder were oh so close!!

 

2006 held another sensational result for Werder Bremen in the Champions League but again on this occasion the win would not quite prove enough. A 1:0 win against FC Chelsea in the fifth group game put Werder within touching distance of a huge upset but it wasn’t quite enough. The golden goal on the night was scored by Per Mertesacker who rose to meet a Torsten Frings free-kick and head home for a phenomenal win.

 

www.spiegel.de – Micoud in interview…

 

The most spectacular

 

Nobody can really explain what it is that makes goals so spectacular when they find their way in off the post or crossbar. Maybe it’s because in moments like those we can really see how a footballer can make use of the body parts that most of us merely use for walking and standing. Maybe it’s that we can in moments like that see exactly how fast one of these leather objects can be blasted through the air. All that could also jus be nonsense and goals that make their way in off the woodwork are simply sensational. One example of this was displayed by Diego on the eighth match day of the season. Sent through by Torsten Frings, the Brazilian brilliantly turned his fellow countryman Lucio and hammered a shot from 13 meters unstoppably against the underside of the crossbar past a stunned Oliver Kahn who could only look on in dismay as the ball crashed down behind the goal line. Diego had just introduced Bayern Munich to the realms of fun football – and made it 1:0 at the same time.

 

www.youtube.com – Diego’s dream goal…

 

The most curious goal – Bulgarian misfortune

 

For a long time Werder made heavy weather of what was to be an uncomfortable Champions League outing in Sofia. On the night the Green-Whites were to have luck on their side and the misfortune of Bulgarian keeper Nikolai Michailov. The 18 year old was filling in for Levski’s regular keeper and had a major part to play in Werder scoring three goals in five first half minutes. His ‘Faux-Pas’ in the 33rd minute started the ball rolling. Werder upped the tempo and Sofia defender saw his only way out through a pass back to his keeper who tried to stop the ball but thanks to a dodgy pitch, poor foot work or just pure bad luck, allowed the ball to roll over his foot over the line – the desperate keepers attempted diving clearance came too late. Werderv didn’t let up and in two minute tack doubled and tripled their lead with Michailov not uninvolved in the German sides 3:0 away win.

 

www.werder.de – sympathy for Michailov…

 

Set piece specials

 

With Werder 6:0 win in Bochum, Naldo’s star shone most brightly. In the meantime the Brazilian striker has six goals to his name, top of the form for a defensive player. Prior to that match, with a 3:0 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach the Brazilian left the free-kick taking to Diego who bent the ball around the wall into the back of the net. In Bochum though the lofty centre half took on the challenge himself and drove unstoppably through the VfL wall to make it 5:0 leaving keeper Skov-Jensen helpless to stop the rocket shot. Naldo’s powerful shooting ability followed him against Frankfurt and Wolfsburg. The Brazilians strike against the Lower Saxon’s in the final game of 2006 was enough to seal the winter title for Werder Bremen going into their Christmas break.

 

www.werder.de – survey surrounding Werder’s best free-kick taker…

 

Johnnie Muldoon

 

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