What's happenin' ?

[saelevena]

What's up with the team? That's 4 games in a row now without a win.
Do the players need a kick up the arse or is this due to tactics or what??
Wasn't 4th place enough of a wake up call? Now we're 5th in the league table. 2nd spot is our only realistic chance and if we want to get there we would have to win games for a start. We can't afford any more slip ups with Frankfurt and Stuttgart right up our bums but it's gonna be really tough with away games against Hamburg and Leverkusen who are currently ahead of us in the table.

Oh yeah and after a great first half of the season, who would've thought that not scoring would be a problem for us? We seem to have lost our goal scoring touch. We're supposed to be the most attacking team in the Bundesliga yet we're struggling to find the ball in the back of the net. I'm really disappointed with our strikers' recent performances...The last 2 goals we've scored were from a free kick and penalty by none other than Diego.

Things aren't looking very good...

[LebenslangGruenWeiss]

it's a psychological problem. The team puts itself under too much pressure.

[sting-ray]

speaking of psychology...

http://www.bild.de/BILD/sport/fussball/bundesliga/vereine/werder/2008/03/27/psychologe-erklaert/so-kommt-werder-aus-der-krise,geo=4108308.html

[Borussia]

Thomas Helmer, Bruno Labbadia and Fredi Bobic were analyzing Werder's current problems & serious crisis on DSF tonight.

CLICK (http://www.dsf.de/de/programm/pr-programm/prpr-fussball/prprfu-blspieltaganalyse/bundesliga-spieltaganalyse.html)

[sting-ray]

right now i just want to beat schalke, that's all. What better way to end the krisis than to beat schalke!

of course hertha comes first and i hope for a win there too... but we'll see.


In other news we got our 33.333. member recognized

Sebastian Proedl was also in Bremen looking for his new home

[willy_svw]

Haven´t been here for a while, was too desperate.

But I´m always desperate at this time of the year. Maybe this year a little more, but the winter break always causes a (mini-)crisis in Bremen.

I am sure we will win against Hertha, Schaaf will offer some other players the chance to prove themselves, I´m hoping to see a real fighter like Vranjes to start.
One good game and Bremen is back in business.
:)

[saelevena]

from bundesliga.de:

Tim Wiese hasn't had a high-profile blunder in the Bundesliga so far, but he's not what you would call a tower behind the defence. He has saved just 62.2 per cent of all shots on goal in 2008, the worst record of all regular Bundesliga keepers.

:o

[willy_svw]

I suppose we left the crisis behind us after the demolition of Schalke!
Westermann having said if we play like we did against Barcelona, no one in the BL can beat us comes up to my mind all the time...dunno kind of strange. :)

Great performances by Diego, Klasnic, Rosenberg and Sanogo. Borowski also had a good game with two assists.

[Rust_In_Peace]

Great win for us.

Our last matches will be very hard..

Trips to Hamburg,Leverkusen and Karlsruhe. And home matches against Cottbus and Hannover.

It will be tough but I think we can manage them and qualify for the CL.

[luciusmagister]

I suppose we left the crisis behind us after the demolition of Schalke!
I suppose so. :) What a great result!

[willy_svw]

Wonderful goal by Frings and goal by Klasnic off a penalty rebound save us the win in Rostock!

[Rust_In_Peace]

We really seemed to have risen from the dead! :)

[HomeatHighbury]

The 5-1 was fantastic.

[saelevena]

The 5-1 was fantastic.

Indeed it was. :)

Unfortunately we couldn't kill the game off like that against Hansa Rostock, although we were luckily able to get the 3 points. With Hamburg and Leverkusen dropping points, it's Schalke who we are most likely to compete with for second place. There is still room for improvement, so it's important the team still works harder for the next games in order to maintain second spot.

It's annoying that we seem to always concede unnecessary goals by a quick counter-attack from the opposing team, despite the bulk of possession we always seem to possess. The defenders and Wiese are really hopeless in that sort of situation.

In other news, Frank Baumann has sustained an injury after being fouled right in the end of the Hansa game and will be out for 10-14 days.

[squidward123]

Come on guys, win the rest of your games and get that 2nd place!!

[LebenslangGruenWeiss]

Come on guys, win the rest of your games and get that 2nd place!!

I can assure you every Werder supporting forum member tries its best.



...but shouldn't you be cheering for Dortmund?

[squidward123]

I can assure you every Werder supporting forum member tries its best.



...but shouldn't you be cheering for Dortmund?

I am, but not for 2nd place ;)

To tell you the truth, werder was the club I disliked the most when I started following dortmund back in the early 90s because bremen would almost always beat us, but you guys are a cool club who also play very good football, so no worries now...

[saelevena]

3-3 against Karlsruhe after leading 2-1 at halftime. :mad: We're now tied points with Schalke but still 2nd due to goal difference.

["Eisenfuß" Eilts]

3-3 against Karlsruhe after leading 2-1 at halftime. :mad: We're now tied points with Schalke but still 2nd due to goal difference.

The match is symthomatic for the whole season,
in defense and offense the team makes too many mistakes
(doesn´t use its chances). Letting a player run over more than
the half pitch and then let him then score is inexcusable
(great goal by Freis btw.), using chances as pathetic as our strikers, too.

[Fräulein96]

Lol, the thread in the official Werder forum about Ivan's late night appearance at Beckmann is already 102 pages long (he's suing Werder's team-doctor):

http://forum.werder.de/viewtopic.php?t=39492&start=525&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

:eek:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIySEkCqD_U