Line-up and formation: Head coach Florian Kohfeldt used two different sides in the match of three 35 minute periods. The first eleven, full of Bundesliga players, played the first two thirds, whilst a second side played the last. It was an opportunity for those with less match practice to get some time on the pitch.
Starting XI: Kapino – Möhwald, Rashica, Osako, Moisander, Schmid, Toprak, Chong, Erras, Friedl and Woltemade.
Bench: Dos Santos Haesler – Bittencourt, Sargent, Gebre Selassie, Gruev, Rieckmann, Groß, Nawrocki, Dinkci, Park, Badjie and Nankishi.
Nankishi scores and Toprak injured
It was the visitors who looked to dominate the game in the first 35 minutes, and it was Simon Makienok who surprised by giving them the early lead (16’). The attacker scored with a back-heel, with ex-Werder man Luca Zander providing the assist. SVW’s best opportunity went to Yuya Osako, who was unable to make it 1-1 after going through on goal thanks to a great pass by Tahith Chong. Ömer Toprak sadly had to be substituted in the 30th minute due to injury.
Florian Kohfeldt: “We wanted to focus on more technical things today, but I was disappointed from the first third in the lack of hunger and creativity on the pitch. And we weren’t good enough in defending the counter-attack. We need to make sure that we have the balance right. We wanted to set up a little more offensively in this friendly, but it didn’t work. We’ll learn from that. I found the final third really refreshing, on the other hand. Some players really impressed. Ömer picked up a thigh injury which is why he was substituted. We’ll have to wait for more information, but Ömer himself says that it was more precautionary.”
Frank Baumann: “It’s important that we had this friendly today. We could try a few things out in a couple of positions that you can’t do in the Bundesliga. Lots of young players played the last third, and that was good to see. Obviously on the whole though, it wasn’t a good performance. We made too many mistakes and we didn’t have the body language that we wanted to have.”
Stats:
SV Werder: Kapino (Dos Santos Haesler 70‘) - Friedl (Gebre Selassie 70‘), Moisander (Kyu-Hyun Park 70‘), Toprak (Nawrocki 30‘/ Badjie 90’) - Erras (Rieckmann 70’), Möhwald (Groß 70’), Schmid (Nankishi 70’), Osako (Bittencourt 70’) - Chong (Dinkci 70’), Rashica (Gruev 70’), Woltemade (Sargent 70’).
FC St. Pauli: Brodersen - Zander (Viet 46‘), Ziereis, Knoll, Buballa - Becker, Aremu, Lankford, Daschner, Dittgen - Makienok.
Goals: 0-1 Makienok (16’), 0-2 Daschner (53’), 1-2 Woltemade (60’), 1-3 Tashchy (61’, pen), 1-4 Matanovic (85’), 2-4 Nankishi (93’)