2023-04-24 07:29:00
With the three against Hertha BSC, SV Werder Bremen took a big step towards staying up in the league – also because the competition messed up.
Bremen – It was not a quick prayer that Clemens Fritz sent to heaven, but a certain relief was clearly noticeable when he thought of the table. “You can definitely see how important this win was,” said the head of professional football SV Werder Bremen following the 4:2 success Hertha BSC. “It could have turned out differently and then we would have been in a completely different state here.” Probably with disappointed faces. Possibly even with one that is getting bigger again fear of relegation. But as it was, the Bremen team didn’t even allow for negative vibrations due to their exhilarating victory. Since Sunday afternoon it has also been finally clear that the three points won were not only valuable against the bottom team from Berlin, but also with regard to the other teams from the lower tiers.
Should SV Werder Bremen win against Schalke 04, they can no longer be directly relegated
FC Schalke 04, Werder Bremen Opponents next weekend (Saturday, 6.30 p.m. in the DeichStube live ticker) conceded their 15th defeat this season (0:4) in Freiburg and remain at 24 points. A circumstance that also plays into the cards for Bremen (35). Their advantage over a direct relegation zone is already eleven points, while VfB Stuttgart (25) is currently ten points away in the relegation rank. There are still five match days before the 60th Bundesliga season ends, so a maximum of 15 points can be scored by Werder’s competitors in the fight for the relegation yet to be fetched. At least theoretically everything is still possible, which is why they don’t want to receive hasty congratulations at the Osterdeich despite the clearly optimized starting position. Or as central defender Niklas Stark puts it with a view to the table constellation: “Now there is another heated game against Schalke. We go there to win – and then maybe we can talk about it.”
With a win in Gelsenkirchen it would at least be clear that a crash on a direct relegation zone for Werder Bremen is no longer possible in this series. Then the green-whites would have 38 points on the account and built up a gap to the immediate danger zone that can no longer be made up. (mbu)
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