Thoughts on the game: By the time the game against Braunschweig gets underway, SV Werder Bremen will have completed six training sessions. “We want to see what the boys have taken from the first days of training,” says Frank Baumann, Werder’s sporting director, as he discusses the expectations of the team. Despite the anticipated high temperatures, the players are expected to show “total effort and commitment” on the pitch to ensure that Kohfeldt’s men can play “their brand of football”. Baumann also expects opposition head coach Marco Antwerpen to bring a side hungry to win; Braunschweig celebrated promotion to Bundesliga 2 just a few weeks ago. “They’ll still have the euphoria of promotion and they’ll be confident. It will be a demanding game.”