Fritz and Garcia back in squad

Competition is the name of the game: Viktor Skripnik had tough choices to make when putting together his game roster (Photo: nph).
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Saturday, 06.12.2014 / 17:45

Werder coach Viktor Skripnik has just about a full roster of players to choose from at the moment. In the build-up to the showdown with Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday 7 December...


Werder coach Viktor Skripnik has just about a full roster of players to choose from at the moment. In the build-up to the showdown with Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday 7 December 2014 at 5:30 p.m. (starting at 5:15 p.m. in Tipico Ticker on WERDER.DE), the head coach really had plenty of choices in naming his final 18-man squad.

It was not an easy decision as Clemens Fritz and Santiago Garcia had both sat out their suspensions and were coming back into the team. Besides Franco Di Santo (ligament injury), Marnon Busch (rehab after torn muscle) and the suspended Alejandro Gálvez (fifth yellow), Skripnik had all of his players available, including Felix Kroos and Davie Selke, who sat out training Thursday for precautionary reasons.

Success pushes competition within team

Skripnik said at the press conferences that it was a luxury problem. "The success of the young players in the Paderborn match did the whole team good. The experienced players, Santiago Garcia for example, had to watch from the outside that the younger players also could play well at their positions. That has lifted the competition within the team," said the coach, who really looked at the training performances from the last two sessions on Friday and Saturday before considering the game squad.

These 18 Werder players were nominated by Skripnik to take the plane to Frankfurt at 4:30 p.m.:
Wolf, Strebinger - Garcia, Caldirola, Lukimya, Makiadi, Fritz, Hajrovic, Prödl, Junuzovic, Kroos, Aycicek, Bartels, Gebre Selassie, Petersen, Selke, Sternberg and Bargfrede.

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