Werder want to knock out the spectre of relegation against Augsburg | OneFootball

After taking four points from the last two matches, Werder Bremen now have an excellent chance of staying up.

In this weekend’s home game against FC Augsburg, the Green-Whites could already take the decisive step. 

If Werder win and their rivals from St. Pauli and Wolfsburg fail to do so on Sunday evening, their Bundesliga survival will be mathematically secured! Even if the Kiezkicker and the Wolves are successful, relegation would be all but avoided thanks to Bremen’s superior goal difference.

Head coach Daniel Thioune put it like this at the press conference ahead of the clash with the Fuggerstädter: "If we see our season as a boxing match, then we were really knocked to the canvas in St. Pauli and in Cologne. Many thought we wouldn’t get back up. That drove us on."

He also had a rather striking metaphor up his sleeve: "It won’t be easy against Augsburg, but if we can generate energy together with the stadium, it could be really cool, and it would be nice if we could knock the ghost of relegation to the canvas.”

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