Eight goals, two of which went into his own net and a possible comeback, which was then blown off, but quickly re – of the ninth round of the Bundesliga with a spectacle to the end. With counter extra-class football Bayer Leverkusen has stopped of all the so home strong people of Bremen, the sporty descent. The Rhine countries to their controversial coach Heiko gained Wonderfully in a high class game at Werder 6:2 (3:0) and added to the North German the first home defeat since the arrival in power of coach Florian Kohfeldt at the end of October 2017. Since Bremen was still in the League in 16 Games in front of a private audience unbeaten.
“We have forgotten one aspect of football today fully: counter-hedging,” said Kohfeldt, who also discovered some errors in the opening Game: “That was bitter today, and it hurts. And then we also have two own goals. But I am confident that we will win now in the Cup, and then in Mainz again existence.“
For Leverkusen, it was after three games without a win the first three. Before 40.400 spectators in the sold-out Weser stadium scored by Kevin Volland (8. Minute), Julian Brandt (38.), Karim Bellarabi (45.) and Kai Havertz (67.) the goal for the guests, who also received the help of Bremen’s Sebastian Langkamp protect. The Bremen defensive players met in the 72. 77. Minute into his own goal. His Team-Mate Claudio Pizarro (60.) and Yuya Osako (62.) had the hosts in the meantime, hope is restored.
Gorgeous had changed his team in comparison to the 2:3 in the Europa League in Zurich on four positions. So Volland has returned, among other things, in the top of the table – a change that paid off in the eighth Minute. After a fine assist by Bellarabi of the national players needed to insert in the penalty area from a short distance only.
Moisander is missing
The Bremen needed a while to recover from the residue. In addition, Kohfeldt must rebuild his Team in the short term was because of defensive leader Niklas Moisander had to fit because of muscular problems. Werder is acting therefore in the defense with three chain Sebastian Langkamp in a Central Position, and Marco Friedl on the right side. Changes that didn’t get the otherwise stable Bremer game at all. Since the injured Philipp Bargfede another anti-roll bar was missing in front of the defense, was the Defensive of the hosts unusually shaky.
However, missed it, Bayer, first, to raise additional capital and to decide the game early. Bellarabi (28.) and Havertz (29.) couldn’t match on the Counterattack. However, Werder acted defensively indisposed in the first passage so that the guests created before the break by Brandt and Bellarabi, seemingly for the preliminary decision.
After the break, Kohfeldt brought in crowd favourite Pizarro another offensive player. And the goal for the 40-year-old veterans paid off. After the Bremen had to withstand a scary moment in the Form of a pole shot from Bellarabi (51.), Pizarro made his first goal for Werder since the 10. March 2017 for the 1:3. Also at that time the Peruvians had taken against Leverkusen.
Now, Werder was back in the game and started driven by the Fans of a storm. As Osako scored the goal that shook the Weser stadium like in the best of times. The game threatened to tilt now, but then Super-Talent Havertz to beat ice cold and finished with 4:2 Bremen’s momentum. The game was decided. At the end of the eight hits were even in the statistics.