Did not the world appear stunning on the Weser? The departure of profitable coach Ole Werner was immediately compensated with profitable coach Horst Steffen. A future wherein the Elversberg expertise magician trains future stars on the Weser and on the identical time lets them play good soccer was forward of SVW. However only a few weeks later, a really, very powerful season is now threatening. What is going on on in Bremen?
The preparation of the Inexperienced-Whites was extraordinarily bumpy. Captain Marco Friedl lately warned: “We’ve to deal with many issues and do higher.” The issue will not be a lot the various defeats, which one ought to by no means overestimate in pleasant matches, however a really blatant weak point that has proven itself in all matches: Werder doesn’t conjure up any objective risk beneath offensive soccer preacher Steffen.
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0:0 towards Parma, 0:1 and 0:3 within the double check towards Hoffenheim in addition to 0:1 and 1:2 within the double check towards Udinese, the place the one personal objective was scored after a penalty. The Bremen assault machine is stuttering, which is all of the extra shocking that Marvin Ducksch was lately bought for the mini sum of two million euros to Birmingham Metropolis. The 31-year-old contributed 32 targets and 27 assists within the final three first division seasons.
Can Silva exchange Ducksch?
He’s now very doubtless to get replaced by André Silva (9 targets, 6 assists within the final three years) from RB Leipzig. He nonetheless advantages from having as soon as scored 28 targets for Frankfurt, however he didn’t persuade as a mortgage participant at Werder within the final spherical. Adjustments of coach and system at the moment are supposed to assist him, however Silva had his greatest time at Eintracht in a three-chain system with a double high, just like what Werner additionally let play in Bremen. That does not sound like a savior at first.
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Horst Steffen is changing Werder to a 4-2-3-1 with a transparent middle ahead. Silva is meant to take this place, however at present it’s occupied by Keke Topp. The 21-year-old confirmed dedication within the preparation, however in all probability nonetheless wants a while. Behind him, Mitchell Weiser, Marco Grüll, Justin Njinmah, Romano Schmid and ten million new signing Samuel Mbangula are speculated to whirl. Nonetheless, the latter may have already got been a prelude to a doable Schmid sale. In any case, Werder desires to generate a switch surplus of seven.5 million euros, in line with its personal assertion when organising the fan bond. They’re at present at minus 7.5 million euros.
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Whereas Weiser remains to be out till winter, Mbangula confirmed towards Udinese along with his dribblings and his velocity that he can certainly be enjoyable, however he first has to show that he can constantly ship an entire first division season.
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So at present there are a variety of query marks within the assault. The burden of answering these shouldn’t but be positioned on actually present offensive abilities like Patrice Covic, Leon Opitz or Isak Hansen-Aarøen.
Accordingly, Steffen has additionally selected the skilled Michael Zetterer as primary to supply extra safety. Substitute goalkeeper Mio Backhaus (21 years previous) must watch for now.
The coach can be nonetheless hoping for transfers to get higher: “I’m all the time impatient as a result of I all the time need prime quality and as rapidly as doable. However I see that everybody is engaged on it,” Steffen informed ‘Sportschau’. With out additional reinforcements, nevertheless, one actually has to ask whether or not this offense is robust sufficient for the primary division.
The beginning is hard
The staff will even not get a lot time to seek out itself. Within the DFB-Pokal, the hardest doable opponent of the primary spherical, second division chief and final yr’s finalist Arminia Bielefeld, is ready. Given the quite a few opening blunders up to now, it at present appears to be the larger sensation if Werder ought to really prevail there.
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Within the Bundesliga, the primary 5 video games won’t be any simpler. Frankfurt (A), Leverkusen (H), Mönchengladbach (A), Freiburg (H) and Bayern (A) are the opponents. A staff that’s not firmly within the saddle can rapidly get into disaster mode from which it doesn’t get out rapidly if it ought to dangle in there on the backside.
The Werder followers are usually not identified to be notably essential, however relatively encouragingly supportive, but when the beginning goes incorrect, comparisons with Werner, who virtually led the membership to Europe up to now two years, are prone to be made rapidly.
As an alternative of a soccer fairy story, the Bremen individuals ought to due to this fact put together for a tricky season wherein the principle purpose is to keep away from slipping into the deep relegation battle. Or will Werder nonetheless discover the urgently wanted new heroes who, after preliminary setbacks, additionally present a shocking completely satisfied ending on this fairy story?
This text was translated into English by Synthetic Intelligence.
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