Werder Bremen 2006/2007

chrissicross wrote:Klose and Diego are both likely to play on Wednesday...
No news yet with regard to Mertesacker...

Dein Wort in Gottes Ohr, we need them both. And Merte hopefully as well.

So, haven't checked in on Hugo Almeida for some time...how's he doing?

Luso 'Sporting' wrote:So, haven't checked in on Hugo Almeida for some time...how's he doing?

Well, he's not doing that well at the moment to be honest, but then again most of our players aren't doing well also...

He got a slight injury in our last match against the HSV, so he probably can't play on Wednesday against Barca...

chrissicross wrote:
If I had to bet on it I would predict 1-3 or 0-2, but I hope for a 3-2...

Oi, that's what I *did* predict in our CL predictor

Okay, okay....it's a bit wishfull thinking...

Axeslammer ! wrote:

chrissicross wrote:
If I had to bet on it I would predict 1-3 or 0-2, but I hope for a 3-2...

Oi, that's what I *did* predict in our CL predictor

Okay, okay....it's a bit wishfull thinking...

You predicted a Bremen win over Barca...Otto will love you for that...

Barca mit Hochachtung, Respekt und viel Selbstvertrauen
http://www.werder.de/aktuelles/news/meldung.php?id=9276

Borowski: Klose wird morgen ein paar Tore machen
http://www.werder.de/aktuelles/news/meldung.php?id=9277

Riesen-Andrang um lässige Superstars: Barca ist in Bremen
http://www.werder.de/aktuelles/news/meldung.php?id=9271

Werders Flucht nach vorn
http://www.tagesspiegel.de/sport/archiv/27.09.2006/2802326.asp

Interview mit Merte
http://www.eurosport.de/fussball/bundesliga/2006-2007/sport_sto972170.shtml

Interview mit Merte, 2ter Teil
http://www.eurosport.de/fussball/bundesliga/2006-2007/sport_sto972180.shtml

Barcelona: Zeit für die Identitätspflege
http://www.welt.de/data/2006/09/27/1051327.html

Im Zweikampf mit der Ehrfurcht
http://www.welt.de/data/2006/09/27/1051328.html

whats the likely squad for tonight then?

Wish you luck, hope you beat the Culés - their fans are getting far too arrogant and they need a good shooting down

Tweedledum wrote:
Wish you luck, hope you beat the Culés - their fans are getting far too arrogant and they need a good shooting down

Seconded.

Please... batter them. I'll accept Otto's rantings about how Bremen and the Bundesliga are the best in the world ever if you do so.

Not sure about the line-up tonight, it will probably look like this:

Code:


--------------- Wiese --------------

Fritz --- Baumann --- Naldo --- Wome

--------------- Frings --------------

Borowski ------------------- Schulz

--------------- Diego -------------

---- Klose ------------ Klasnic ----


But Wome is playing soo badly at the moment, I don't know what's wrong with him. So maybe Schulz will play for him as RB, then Owomoyela or Hunt could play in the midfield instead. And if Mertesacker is fit enough to play tonight the line-up would probably look like this:

Code:


---------------- Wiese ---------------

Fritz - Mertesacker - Naldo - Schulz

-------------- Baumann --------------

Frings ---------------------- Borowski

---------------- Diego ----------------

----- Klose -------------- Klasnic ----


This would be my prefered line-up also...

Here are some interesting infos about the extension of the Weserstadion I found on the Werder forum. It's from an article in Sportbild.



Scans of the full Sportbild article (in German):

Page I
Page II

C'mon Bremen!

chrissicross wrote:

Code:


---------------- Wiese ---------------

Fritz - Mertesacker - Naldo - Schulz

-------------- Baumann --------------

Frings ---------------------- Borowski

---------------- Diego ----------------

----- Klose -------------- Klasnic ----


This would be my prefered line-up also...

This would be my prefered line-up as well, but unlikely, because Mertesacker still needs to get match practice, and a CL match against Barca definitely is not the best idea for a 'training match'...

Thanks for those pictures chrissi, look very interesting. Actually, the new Weserstadion looks awesome to be honest. Hope that they'll start to work on it ASAP.

Wow! What a surprise! Schaaf actually wants to risk Mertesacker in the central defence! And even more suprising, the youngster Hunt (!) in the attack, not Klasnic (who still lacks form). Almeida and Zidane are slightly injured.


The line-up for tonight:

Code:


------------Wiese-------------
Fritz-Mertesacker-Naldo-Schulz
------------Baumann-----------
--Frings------------Borowski--
------------Diego-------------
------Klose---------Hunt------


P.S.: 9 German players in the line-up, and 2 Brazilians.

quality lads....now i just need a double from Roma for me to be in the money

Disappointment and pride, that's what I feel now. Great match by our team, we could have, and probably should have won this match. Everyone gave their best, they were k.o. at the end of the match really.

I'm really proud of this team, and we are not at our limit yet even. The team still needs to gel, especially in the defence. But once that happens, dann gnade euch Gott Europa.

Despite the disappointment about the late equaliser, it's very good result for us.

@ Blut

who is Aaron Hunt...i know hes a young player but is he German?

Yes, he is German. His dad is German, his mum is English. He is one of our own youngsters, from the Werder academy. He is in the German U21 team, and most probably play against the English U21 team soon.

This was his first match ever from the beginning, and he was one of our best players!

blutgraetsche wrote:Disappointment and pride, that's what I feel now.

Me too. What a great match it was, but it was also such a disappointment to concede the equalizer in the 89th minute. I guess it would feel better if we had scored in the 89th minute. When Messi came on for Eto´o I already had a bad feeling he would score in the last minutes...

But not everything is lost, Chelsea only won by two goals difference against Sofia...we might be able to top that.

We will have to win our matches against Sofia, that's a must. But it's not a given that Barca will beat Chelsea in both matches, they could well lose, especially at Stamford. Remember that they'll have to replace their most prolific striker E'too now.

This group is still open. Nothing decided yet.

Good no great game Bremen, your still in with a fight to qualify, because Barca and Chelsea will play each other back to back and one will defiantly drop points. And if you guys take the Full 6 for Sofia the final round of game will be very interesting

blutgraetsche wrote:
This group is still open. Nothing decided yet.

Yeah, let's hope the best. I'll go to sleep now...good night, blut.

Messiah wrote:Good no great game Bremen, your still in with a fight to qualify, because Barca and Chelsea will play each other back to back and one will defiantly drop points. And if you guys take the Full 6 for Sofia the final round of game will be very interesting

We have a chance to advance still indeed, and a lot will depends on how you guys will play against Chelsea. It would actually help us if one of you wins both matches. Will be very interesting in the next few weeks.

chrissicross wrote:
Yeah, let's hope the best. I'll go to sleep now...good night, blut.

Good night chrissi! Remember, next match is against Gladbach at home, and we hopefully start to win our games finally. If they play like today, we'll thrash them badly.

Today's match against Barca clearly showed that this must be our starting back four this season:


Fritz - Mertesacker - Naldo - Schulz


Once these guys have gelled, and our midfield as well, the Werder machine will really start to roll!

Good job guys, I haven't watched it yet, but from the sounds of text commentary and highlights you played very well and we were terrible. Hopefully you can do Chelsea too when they visit.

Thank you kasnani.

First of all, we will have to beat Sofia in both matches, that is a must. Should that happen, we will do our best to beat Chelsea at home. Although that's a very tough task, we do have a chance to beat them, especially if our team continues to gel and get match practice together.

"Die Kraft der elf Herzen"

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/,tt3m3/sport/championsleague/artikel/117/87030/

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Bayern München und Werder Bremen haben am Mittwoch gegen zwei der besten Mannschaften der Welt bestanden. Das Herz des deutschen Vereinsfußballs - es pocht wieder ziemlich stark.

Damn straight!

Hope all of the UEFA cup teams win their matches tomorrow, and advance to the next round!