The new-look Borussia produced some fine link-up play against their physically superior hosts but lacked purpose and decisiveness with their finishing. “We’ve focused on defence in training so far and allowed Clarholz few opportunities from open play,” said Tullberg, who was rather satisfied with the defending. Both goals that were conceded came from set-pieces. Alex Nizolek had temporarily levelled the scores at 1-1.
Friday night, floodlights, Mönchengladbach. When Marvin Ducksch thinks about the upcoming match at Borussia, good memories come to mind. Last season, SV Werder firstly turned on the style with a goalfest in the home game, before Ducksch grabbed his first Bundesliga brace at BORUSSIA-PARK. “That gives energy to not just me but the whole team,” said the Germany international, who was directly involved in four goals in the last two games against Gladbach.
“It was clear that we couldn’t stay unbeaten forever, even though I was naturally hoping that we would,” said Thorup, looking back on the most recent away game in Bremen. FCA’s head coach has used the time this week to conduct lots of individual conversations with the players and to analyse the performance in detail. Even though the six-game unbeaten run has come to an end, Thorup is looking very positively at the home game: “We want to put the opposition under pressure and take the game to them with our fans behind us.”
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Trimmel moved from Rapid Wien to the then second-division club in Köpenick back in 2014, taking over the captain’s armband from Felix Kroos in the summer of 2018. In nine seasons as an Unioner so far, the Austrian international has played 286 competitive games and has been a intrinsic part of the most successful period in the clubs history.
Another former Emery talent who he was keen to take on board was Udinese’s Deulofeu. The forward spent time under Emery’s management earlier on in his career while he was at Sevilla.
SV Werder Bremen have agreed a contract extension with Romano Schmid. The Austrian midfielder signed a new deal on Wednesday.
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