SV Werder Bremen picked up their second consecutive win in the Bundesliga on matchday 31 as they ran out 3-1 winners against FC Augsburg at the WWK ARENA in their 1000th Bundesliga away game in the club’s history. Overall, SVW put in a very solid performance and scored the decisive goals through Romano Schmid (52’) and Marvin Ducksch (61’) in the second half following a goalless opening 45 minutes. Substitute Olivier Deman wrapped things up with a third goal in the last minute of regular time (90’).

Ermedin Demirović: “It’s a painful loss. I’m really disappointed. We lacked the energy that usually gives us an edge today. We didn’t win enough challenges and struggled to create chances. It was a bit like we had a mental block today. It was clear that Werder wanted it more than us, which should never be the case. We’ve got three games left now and we’re aiming to bring our quality to the table again in all of them.”

Jeffrey Gouweleeuw: “We played really badly today. The first half wasn’t pretty. The disallowed Werder goal should’ve been a warning for us, but we were just as bad in the second half. After a performance like that, we don’t deserve any points. We don’t need to talk about the fact that we’ve passed up a massive opportunity today. The important thing now is that we learn from our mistakes and put in a completely different performance against Dortmund next week.”

Jess Thorup (FC Augsburg coach): “I’m really disappointed with this performance. I certainly didn’t see it coming. We definitely had hoped to play better than this on the back of our good home form. A game like this is therefore tough for me to take. We weren’t good enough both with and without the ball. We struggled to get things right at both ends of the pitch and didn’t play with any energy. I’ll have to watch the game back, but I’m struggling right now to find any positives. After these two defeats our aim is to get back on track across the final three matchdays. We will need to get back to the training ground and work hard to be able to do that.”

Ole Werner (SV Werder Bremen coach): “It was a great away performance and we left nothing to be desired as a team. We defended well and played really good football, even if we didn’t manage to create clear chances in the first half. Scoring from the set piece was important after the break, that broke the deadlock and allowed us to score more goals. We then had more space and took advantage of that. We can be really pleased with our performance today.”

Now at Bayern Munich, Tuchel’s arrived at a spot with no less a medley of stardom and fan favorites, and no less intense a glare of expectations. It’s not quite the same. But maybe not so different, either.

On the bench: Philipp, Bebou, Stach, Jurásek, Becker, Bülter, Brooks, Akpoguma, Bischof

Our goalkeeper reaches a special mark | RBL Debut in October 2015 | Guarantee of success again this season

The VfB camp were left frustrated after conceding a late equaliser, but took heart from the fact they went close to inflicting a first defeat of the season on the Bundesliga champions.

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VfL Wolfsburg celebrated a crucial 2-1 victory away to SC Freiburg on Bundesliga Matchday 31, the result enabling the Wolves to take a big step towards securing their top-flight status for another season.

As noted by various reports, the former centre-back is on Daniel Levy’s shortlist of managerial targets.

The scenario: BVB lost the first leg at the Helmut Körnig-Halle in Dortmund by a 25-24 scoreline a week ago and were denied at least a draw with a matter of seconds remaining. They therefore needed to win by a two-goal margin if they were to still make it into the group phase.