View Full Version : BL matchday 17: Werder Bremen - Bayer Leverkusen 15.12.07 3:30 PM CET [R]
"Eisenfuß" Eilts
15 Dec 2007, 05:24 AM
Very important match for both clubs.
For Werder after a hard week:
- close loss in Hannover (who played well) with biased ref Stark
- pathetic Werder performance in Piraeus
- fans, who are still waiting in Athens to go back to Bremen (strike)
For Leverkusen as team of the month:
- 5 BL wins in a row
- reached UEFA-cup round of 32
expected line-ups (kicker):
Werder
Wiese - C. Fritz, Mertesacker, Naldo, Pasanen - D. Jensen - L. Andreasen, Borowski - Diego - Rosenberg, Klasnic
Bayer Leverkusen
R. Adler - Castro, M. Friedrich, Haggui, Sarpei - Sinkiewicz, Rolfes - Freier, Barbarez, Barnetta - Kießling
LebenslangGruenWeiss
15 Dec 2007, 06:17 AM
Sanogo and Baumann are injured. Almeida is suspended. Mertesacker is back. A win and the Hinrunde would be pretty good.
saelevena
15 Dec 2007, 09:43 AM
'6
0:1 Leverkusen
Barnetta
saelevena
15 Dec 2007, 10:10 AM
'30
1-1 Klasnic gets the equaliser!!! :D His first (of many i hope) bundesliga goal this season.
Bremen already make substitutions with Hunt in for Borowski, and Andreasen in for Vranjes due to injury..
saelevena
15 Dec 2007, 10:44 AM
'50
2-1 Diegooo!!
saelevena
15 Dec 2007, 10:49 AM
3-1 Fritz!!!
saelevena
15 Dec 2007, 10:58 AM
wooo!!! Klasnic gets his second goal and makes it 4-1 in 63rd minute! now waiting for his hat-trick :D
saelevena
15 Dec 2007, 11:01 AM
hahaha! and Rosenberg makes it 5-1!!
saelevena
15 Dec 2007, 11:08 AM
Stefan Kiessling gets one back for Leverkusen 5-2 at 76 mins
saelevena
15 Dec 2007, 11:17 AM
be Klasnic won't be getting his hat-trick as he is substituted off for Harnik at 85 minutes.
saelevena
15 Dec 2007, 11:36 AM
FT: Werder Bremen 5 - 2 Bayer Leverkusen.
We share the same points as Bayern (0-0) but are still in 2nd place due to goal difference.
I'm pleased with the team's overall performance for this first half of the season and I hope we can continue scoring plenty of goals and improve on other aspects of our game for the 2nd half of the season and hopefully we'll have better luck with injuries.
krelmatrix
15 Dec 2007, 12:21 PM
What a great performance by Werder! Makes the embarrassment of last week's CL clusterf#ck a bit easier to handle.
It's good to see that Klasnic is fully back and is playing like a monster. I'm almost sad that the winter break is upon us since I would have enjoyed to see this sort of fire for a couple more weeks.
"Eisenfuß" Eilts
15 Dec 2007, 01:58 PM
Very good performance after Schaaf made the substitutions.
I am especially happy for Ivan. :)
MetroFever
15 Dec 2007, 03:07 PM
Bravo Ivan!
http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Science_and_Body/Hands_and_Feet/Clapping.gif
sting-ray
15 Dec 2007, 04:27 PM
Very happy for Killer Klasnic :) he is back!
Rust_In_Peace
16 Dec 2007, 04:59 AM
Great win.
We will return from the winter break with all of our top players back....we have a great chance of winning the title!
LebenslangGruenWeiss
18 Dec 2007, 09:01 AM
Great win.
We will return from the winter break with all of our top players back....we have a great chance of winning the title!
Even though some players will be back it will be tough after the winter break since it is well known that Werder needs at least 5 league games in order to gel. This season in the Hinrunde it took even longer because of the nightmare-preseason. The winter-break saved Bayern's ass.
"Eisenfuß" Eilts
18 Dec 2007, 10:07 AM
The winter-break saved Bayern's ass.
I agree, Werder was in a really good shape in the last weeks,
especially at home while Bayern was "very greedy in scoring goals". :D
Anyways, now every player needs to work hard and don´t eat
too much food at X-max. ;)
krelmatrix
18 Dec 2007, 06:47 PM
The winter-break saved Bayern's ass.
(not to go off-topic, but...)
What the hell happened with Bayern anyways? They were looking indestructible early-on in the season, then slowly fizzled out as time wore on. I don't seem to recall them being decimated with injuries, suspensions or dramas, so I'm somewhat (pleasingly) perplexed. I sort of expected the opposite to happen with them - that they might stumble a bit out of the gates, but really gel as a squad after a month or two, and really dominate through their depth by now.
Not that I'm too terribly disappointed by it all (especially when Werder beats them in the ruckrunde in February :cool: ), but I found this kind of interesting nevertheless.
Wappy
19 Dec 2007, 02:42 AM
(not to go off-topic, but...)
What the hell happened with Bayern anyways? They were looking indestructible early-on in the season, then slowly fizzled out as time wore on. I don't seem to recall them being decimated with injuries, suspensions or dramas, so I'm somewhat (pleasingly) perplexed. I sort of expected the opposite to happen with them - that they might stumble a bit out of the gates, but really gel as a squad after a month or two, and really dominate through their depth by now.
Not that I'm too terribly disappointed by it all (especially when Werder beats them in the ruckrunde in February :cool: ), but I found this kind of interesting nevertheless.
After their first month of invincibility, more and more teams used the same tactics when facing Bayern: being ultradefensive and that's when Bayern had problems dealing with. The loss of Ribery in October/November did not hep matters of course, for it greatly weakened FCB's attack.
And, Bayern are certainly not the most clinical in front of goal - turn in to any matches and you would see they have massive amounts of shots and dominate possession completely. However all they got were low-scoring games and a couple of 0-0 draws.
Finally some dubious decisions by coach Hitzfeld as the season wore on, most particularly his substitutions and his insistence to use an out-form Schweinsteiger.
I think u might want to post this question in the Bayern boards. I'm sure they would reply with enthusiasm :):)