Dhe SV Werder Bremen won the second game under the new coach Ole Werner and finally made it to the top of the table. Werder won 3: 2 (1: 1) in third place in the table, Jahn Regensburg, thus shortening the tabular distance to the previous surprise team to two points.
“We played a good game. A draw would have been deserved, ”commented Jahn professional Benedikt Saller, disappointed at Sky. “It was important that we finished the first half of the season with six points after all the turmoil,” said Ole Werner after the game. “It was the wild game we expected today. We scored the goals at the right time. “
Werner started with the starting line-up that had convinced last week in a 4-0 win against FC Erzgebirge Aue. But this time the green and whites got off to a bad start and were already behind after three minutes because Ömer Toprak was not paying enough attention to a corner of the hosts. Breitkreuz took advantage of this and did not head under pressure to the Regensburg leadership.
The Bremen team was not shocked and from then on determined what happened. Ducksch should have equalized in the 14th minute, but shot over Jahn’s goal after a nice combination over Felix Agu and Bittencourt. In the period that followed, the guests played their way into the Regensburg penalty area a few times, but in the end they lacked the necessary determination. The North Germans only managed to equalize six minutes before the break. Agu served Bittencourt in the middle, where he scored a technically demanding volley to make it 1-1.
Even after the break, Werder had the game under control for the time being. The guests did not succeed by far, but after just under an hour the Bremen team took the lead. Friedl was successful in the margin after a blocked shot by Bittencourt. After that, however, Ole Werner’s team withdrew too far and left the events to the hosts. Ducksch closed a fantastic counterattack but made it 3-1. The home side’s subsequent goal by Singh didn’t change anything in Werner’s perfect debut at Werder.
Schalke wins against Nuremberg
Without the head coach and severely weakened, FC Schalke 04 won 4-1 (1-0) against 1. FC Nürnberg. With that, Schalke jumped to third place in the table with 29 points at the end of the series, at least for one night. With two points less, Nürnberg falls back to sixth and in the worst case could end the strong first half of the season in eighth.
Goals from Thomas Ouwejan (20th minute), the strong Darko Curlinov (85th), Ko Itakura (90th + 4) and an own goal by Nuremberg’s Manuel Schäffler (66th) sealed Schalke’s victory. Only Fabian Nürnberger’s goal (49th) was counted for the guests, although the offensive player had scored another regular goal. Almost worse than the failure of the head coach, who is in quarantine, was the failure of the regular trio Simon Terodde (injured), Marius Bülter (sick) and Dominick Drexler (injured), who were on the offensive.
But in the attack substitute Churlinov played furiously. The North Macedonian international skillfully prepared Schalke’s leadership. The otherwise good Nuremberg goalkeeper Christian Mathenia was only able to let off his hard shot, so that the Dutchman Ouwejan could volley the ball into the net. The club had bad luck in the 36th minute when a regular hit from Nürnberg was denied because of alleged offside and the video referee did not answer.
The second half was exactly the other way around. Nürnberg came out of the break better and quickly equalized. But this time Schalke 04 fought their way back into the game and were lucky. A shot by Blendi Idrizi, which would have missed the goal by a long way, caught Schäffler, who deflected his head into his own net. In the closing stages, Churlinov and Itakura made the decision.
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