Darmstadt has to accept bankruptcy: Bremen completely unleashed at Werner’s debut

Darmstadt has to accept bankruptcy
Bremen completely unleashed at Werner’s debut

This game is balm on the soul of the so battered SV Werder Bremen. Coach expulsion after vaccination card affair, plus many corona cases – the debut of the new coach Ole Werner against the Erzgebirge at least temporarily lets you forget all of this. Darmstadt, meanwhile, missed the championship lead.

SV Darmstadt 98 – Fortuna Düsseldorf 1: 3 (0: 2)

Promotion candidate Darmstadt 98 missed the leap to the top of the table in the 2nd Bundesliga at the start of the 16th match day. After four wins in a row, the second-placed Lilien surprisingly lost against Fortuna Düsseldorf with 1: 3 (0: 2). The Rhinelander stopped their downward slide after four games without a win and took coach Christian Preusser out of the line of fire.

Rouwen Hennings (16th) ended his slack after six games without a goal, and Darmstadt’s Klaus Gjasula (41st) underwent an own goal after a Hennings shot. Khaled Narey (76th) increased, Phillip Tietz ensured the final score (85th) with a converted foul penalty in the final phase. Fortuna (19 points) initially climbed to eleventh place in the table.

12,450 spectators at the Böllenfalltor saw an intense first half. With a new chain of three in defense, the guests seemed much more controlled and stable, Darmstadt, on the other hand, disappointed, seemed unusually sedate and harmless.

Then veteran Hennings rewarded Fortuna’s courage: The 34-year-old scored from a central position, his deflected left-footed shot after a blocked free kick shortly before the break was ultimately counted as an own goal. After the break, Darmstadt initially reared up and developed good chances. However, the substitute Marvin Mehlem (53rd) and Tietz (57th) awarded. Then Narey ensured clear conditions from a distance, the Tietz goal no longer helped Darmstadt.

Werder Bremen – Erzgebirge Aue 4: 0 (2: 0)

Perfect premiere, enthusiastic audience: Werder Bremen’s new trainer Ole Werner made a tailor-made debut at the relegated team. The Hanseatic League came after a long and convincing performance to a deserved 4-0 (2-0) victory against Erzgebirge Aue and climbed from tenth to ninth place in the table.

After just seven minutes, midfielder Romano Schmid put the North Germans in the lead with a remarkable flick into the corner of the goal. Twelve minutes later, central defender Milos Veljkovic extended the lead from close range with a hoe. Marvin Ducksch (53rd) made it 3-0 with his seventh goal of the season before Niclas Füllkrug (57th) made the final score.

From the very first minute, the hosts took command of the field in front of 15,024 spectators. The Saxons hardly came from their own half, so the fast deficit was not a surprise. The guests were lucky that Leonardo Bittencourt (32nd) only hit the right goal post.

During this phase Werner clearly liked what he saw. Despite continuous rain, the successor to Markus Anfang, who had resigned on suspicion of using a forged vaccination document, almost never went to the covered coaching bench. The ex-coach of Holstein Kiel applauded several times when his protégés succeeded in conquering the ball.

After the break, little changed in the course of the game. The team of coach Pavel Dotchev was still very deep, the rare counter attempts were far too hesitant. After all: In the 52nd minute, Aue came at least to the first corner.

After the fourth goal, La-Ola rolled through the arena. And even after this clear lead, the green-whites acted in forward gear. Now Werner found the leisure to take a seat on the bench every now and then. Because only in the 75th minute was Werder goalkeeper Jiri Pavlenka seriously tested for the first time.

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