Cup shock - "More than a disgrace"

Captain Clemens Fritz could not believe after the match that it wasn’t enough once again. (Photo: nph)
First Team
Sunday, 04.08.2013 / 17:41

The shock is deep! Werder have been eliminated from the German DFB Cup by a third division team for the third straight year. Manager Thomas Eichen had clear words after the match. "We can't sweet-talk this at all...

The shock is deep! Werder have been eliminated from the German DFB Cup by a third division team for the third straight year. Manager Thomas Eichen had clear words after the match. "We can't sweet-talk this at all. Being eliminated by a third division team in the first round is a disgrace. And the third time in a row is an even bigger disgrace. We had to watch as a team from the third division played better than us. I had thought that we had overcome that better. But it was there again today. We were missing the last consequence in our actions," said Eichin.

The players were partially speechless after the latest disappointment in the DFB Cup. "This is a catastrophe which hurts so much. We only have ourselves to blame for this. We made it too easy for our opponents and we paid the price for a weak performance. We were lacking in every facet. It's clear that things will go down in Bremen when you lose a match like this. I don't know what to say," said Austrian Zlatko Junuzovic.

"We never really fought and just lost the ball too easily too often," said captain Clemens Fritz. "We need to digest this now. That will take a couple of nights but today must show us that it will be the same kind of match in Braunschweig. They will try to win with fight and the support of their fans. We have to finally hold our own, otherwise a performance like today will be punished even worse in the Bundesliga," added keeper Sebastian Mielitz.

"Stop the chain reaction"

Head coach Robin Dutt's reaction to the cup exit was as followed: "Actually you can criticise everything this performance but the biggest problem I saw today was that we couldn't create very many chances despite so much possession. At the other end, you can sense that the opponent gets more confident after the first counter attack worked and the second and third weren't bad. At the same time we were losing our confidence. Then the usual chain of reactions begins which then leads to this kind of result. We must analyse exactly how we can stop this chain reaction."

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