Werder Bremen will play the relegation first leg against 1. FC Heidenheim on Thursday. Trainer Florian Kohfeldt prepares with secret advice. The preliminary report of the DeichStube *.
Bremen – He didn’t want to reveal the names, which is all too understandable. After all, informants are kept secret, especially if they can give valuable tips. And valuable, as Werder coach Florian Kohfeldt hopes, are the things he recently learned on the phone. It was, of course, about the upcoming one Relegation. To these two so incredibly important games of the SV Werder Bremen against the 1. FC Heidenheim – and precisely because Kohfeldt has never experienced such a situation in his young coaching career.
“I picked two people out for them Relegation have already participated, but they are not directly with Werder, ”said the 37-year-old during the press conference before the first leg on Thursday (8.30 p.m., Weserstadion, Live-Ticker der DeichStube) – and explained: “It was an attempt to acquire a wealth of experience. Where are the pitfalls? What can happen? “
Werder Bremen in the relegation: against 1. FC Heidenheim it’s all about – rescue or relegation
Oh well. Simply put, there are only two scenarios from Bremen’s perspective, two last truths of a bad season either way: 1.) Werder Bremen saves itself. Or 2.) Werder Bremen gets off. And yet the matter is complicated, because this predator relegation is obviously not manageable with athletic preparation alone. “I don’t think tactical elements will ultimately decide the game. Will decide mentality, the intensity and willingness to handle this pressure situation, ”said Florian Kohfeldt and with that, mind you, a man who otherwise loves to talk about tactical subtleties, literally dissects games with it. Not this time.
The Kohfeldt buzzwords à la “steep gossip”, “depth” and “switching moment” belonged to the day before Relegation first leg of Werder against 1. FC Heidenheim not all to the rhetorical repertoire. In their place: “tension”, “focus” and even the famous “back to the wall”. “We have two games that are all about everything,” summed up the coach.
Werder Bremen: coach Florian Kohfeldt sees relegation against 1. FC Heidenheim as a “gift”
During the regular season, the Bremen team has already proven that they can handle such moments – remember the duels in Freiburg (1: 0), Paderborn (5: 1) and of course at home against 1. FC Köln (6: 1). “We were away so often this season, crossed so many valleys and rightly received a lot of criticism,” Kohfeldt said briefly, but then immediately looked back at Heidenheim: “We now see these two games as gifts. We really want to finish it. ”
Given the euphoria surrounding last Saturday Weser Stadium, no, the whole of Bremen ruled, you might have thought for a brief moment, Werder Bremen have already brought the matter to an end against Cologne. “In public you had the feeling: Werder did it now, it has to work now,” said sports director Frank Baumann, “we tried to counteract it immediately.”
Werder Bremen clear favorite in relegation – Florian Kohfeldt: Nobody underestimates 1. FC Heidenheim
After all, it could quickly run in the other, the fatal direction – the one that leads into the abyss. Werder’s task was to quickly get back into competition mode after the great relief following the Cologne victory. “I tried a lot of contact with the players during training and in the cabin to find out what the mood was like,” reported Florian Kohfeldt. Result: “There is no one here Heidenheim underestimated. “
The third in the second division around coach Frank Schmidt had a good physical presence, was “basically a very active team against the ball” and – certainly not entirely unimportant – had already talked about wanting to appear brave in Bremen. All of this serves as a warning to Kohfeldt. And yet it can’t even scratch the roles of this relegation of the 2019/2020 season: Werder Bremen is the favorite who 1. FC Heidenheim the blatant outsider.
Werder Bremen before relegation against 1. FC Heidenheim – coach Florian Kohfeldt: “More all-in is not possible”
A fact that Frank Baumann tried to put into perspective: “Basically, the first division is automatically the one Favorite, but the chances before these two games are 50:50. ”Kohfeldt, however, avoided probability calculations. He preferred to emphasize that he likes to be a favorite, “because it implies that you have a lot of things in your own hands.” On Thursday evening, from 8.30 p.m. (live on TV and stream on DAZN and Amazon Prime), Werder Bremen wants the use. On Monday, in the second leg, then again.
“You can’t get more all-in. After that you can’t make up for anything. This can be used in preparation to build up the focus. And yet you have to keep the necessary looseness at the crucial moment, ”said Kohfeldt. It is quite possible that he got this tip from his secret informants on the phone. (dco) *DeichStube.de is part of the nationwide Ippen-Digital editors network.
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