Experience instead of risk: Werner's references to a Toprak
If there hadn't been two more explicit questions about the Ömer Toprak personnel, on Friday afternoon at the press conference before the game between SV Werder Bremen and Jahn Regensburg, Ole Werner's sentence would not have been more than an edge note. Except for Manuel MBOM (Achilles tendon tear), all players are available to the Bremen coach for the 34th matchday in the 2nd division, he said: "In this respect, Ömer is also a candidate for Sunday" - if from 3:30 p.m. whether Werder rises to the Bundesliga.
Werner: "He is our captain"
Only the topic of Toprak in the past few days, especially before the upcoming season finale, was actually a main note. In the past 3-0 victory in Aue, the Werder captain had been back in the starting eleven for the first time for seven games after a stubborn calf injury had put him out of action. But after just 36 minutes, his complaints in this game had been too big again, the defense chief had replaced. Apparently just in time, as Coach Werner said, "so it was nothing serious - otherwise he could not have trained".
In fact, the 32-year-old has been completing the entire workload so far this week, and Werner repeated the first demand: "If a player can participate without problems, he is usually a candidate for the starting eleven." And added the following note for the list on Sunday: "He is our captain."
Toprak's exceptional position
Werner does not necessarily feel that a renewed appointment of the league that may be the best defender of the league could mean a risk, especially since his lack of game practice in Aue could not be overlooked here and there. "It is the 34th matchday," replied the 34-year-old, "and we will set up the players who give us the greatest possible probability of winning the game". The fact that he also spoke of the fact that "experience generally helps to have experienced certain situations in such a game" was another such indication. Especially since Toprak (39 Champions League inserts) occupies an exceptional position in the Werder squad in this regard.
individual arrival and no scores
Before the showdown, according to Werner, there is currently "tension, a concentrated atmosphere, but also anticipation" - in which a point against Regensburg would be enough for the direct Bundesliga return, after only one year of abstinence. Of course, the Werder coach also considers it "more sensible to stay with our way of playing" than to play for 90: 0 from the start, that is, actively appear, playing in the home win. The players of the pursuers, HSV (in Rostock) and from Darmstadt (against Paderborn), should not be shown in the stadium on Sunday. Even a bus arrival of the Bremen team will not exist in advance, the players are traveling early and individually.
The big party should only follow after the game.
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