Confident Werder Sink Eintracht

First Team
Sunday, 02.09.2007 / 10:00

On Saturday afternoon, Werder Bremen carried on where they left off in their effective Champions League qualifying performance in Zagreb (3:2) with a 2:1 (1:0) win in the Bundesliga against Eintracht Frankfurt.

On Saturday afternoon, Werder Bremen carried on where they left off in their effective Champions League qualifying performance in Zagreb (3:2) with a 2:1 (1:0) win in the Bundesliga against Eintracht Frankfurt. 42,938 fans at the Weser Stadium saw Boubacar Sanogo put the Green-Whites in front (35’) and then Petri Pasanen double that lead (79’). Late on Michael Thurk was on target for Frankfurt but it proved too little too late for the visitors.

 

Trainer Thomas Schaaf made only one change to the eleven which started against Dinamo on Wednesday night with new signing Dusko Tosic on the left side of the back four for Christian Schulz who has left Bremen for Hanover. Frankfurt started with the same eleven which beat Hansa Rostock 1:0 last weekend.

 

Confident Werder start

 

Werder made an immediately concentrated and determined impression with the confidence tanked in the win Zagreb clearly on display. The Green-Whites had the vast majority of possession and controlled the match whilst waiting patiently for an opening. That was to come in the 17th minute as Diego sent Dusko Tosic on his way down the left. The new man crossed for Naldo to head but the Brazilians effort sailed over the crossbar. Just a minute later Eintracht’s keeper Markus Pröll had to be quick to deny Hugo Almeida (18’). With 20 minutes on the clock, Frank Baumann tried his luck from the edge of the box but pulled his effort wide.

 

Aside from a couple of half hearted ventures into the Werder half, there was little to see from the visitors. The Hessen side were focused on getting men behind the ball and keeping the Green-Whites at bay. The guests best chance in the first half fell on the half hour with a shot from Ioannis Amanatidis that never really troubled Tim Wiese. At the other end the home side proved more effective. Diego set Sanogo free and the Ivory Coast international had his initial effort blocked by Pröll but as the ball rebounded the striker was well placed to beat the keeper and knee the ball home – 1:0 (35’). A long overdue goal. Naldo came close to doubling the Werder lead with a free-kick which whipped just wide of the up-right (37’). The defensive plan from Eintracht Frankfurt wasn’t working and as the hosts took their lead into the break, the visiting coach knew he would have to think quickly and make some changes.

 

Frankfurt too passive

 

After the break there was much of the same to see. Werder were solid at the back and patient in their forward approach. Funkel’s men came out extremely passively and allowed the home side all the possession they could have wished for. In the 55th minute Almeida came close with a header from a Tosic cross. The game had fallen into something of a rut despite Werder having the upper-hand and there was little action around either goal by midway through the second period. The Green-Whites were surely feeling the strain of their fully packed programme after their adventure in Zagreb during the week. Frankfurt never looked threatening though aside from a 23 meter drive from Michael Fink which Wiese would have had problems dealing with.

 

Pasanen scores a blinder / Wiese saves the points

 

A 1:0 lead is always a precarious one and the Green-Whites were more than delighted as Petri Pasanen hammered a free kick with the outside of his right boot into the top corner of the net to make it 2:0. A comfortable position for the home side but the game wasn’t over yet. Substitute Martin Harnik forced a good save from Pröll (81’) before Michael Thurk, who was just four minutes on the pitch, pounced on a loose ball in the Werder box to reduce the deficit – 2:1. The points could have been shared had it not been for a brilliant save from Tim Wiese in the 90th minute to keep all three points in Bremen.

 

Johnnie Muldoon

 

Werder Bremen- Eintracht Frankfurt

 

Werder Bremen: Wiese – Pasanen, Mertesacker, Naldo, Tosic (80. Boenisch) – Baumann, Vranjes, Jensen (67. Andreasen), Diego – Sanogo, Almeida (73. Harnik).

 

Eintracht Frankfurt: Pröll – Mahdavikia, Russ, Vasoski, Spycher – Inamoto, Fink (80. Thurk), Streit, Meier, Köhler (65. Takahara) – Amanatidis.

 

Goals: 1:0 Sanogo (35.), 2:0 Pasanen (79.), 2:1 Thurk (85.)

 

Yellow card(s): Tosic (71.)

 

Referee: Herbert Fandel (Utscheid)

 

Attendance: Weser-Stadion: 40.983

 

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