A seismic reality faces not just the club but the Bundesliga too, of which the northerners have been such a constant
He has always looked bright as the dark closed in on Werder Bremen, stood up and pointed the way forward. This time was different. Usually a beacon of positivity – a quality that has seen the club stick with him long after many of their counterparts would have happily jettisoned him – Florian Kohfeldt was deflated, the bottom of his deep well of optimism finally visible.
In the minutes following Werder’s 3-1 defeat at Mainz, the head coach said he felt “empty”. In a must-win game they had started well, stumbled and then collapsed in an all-too-familiar fashion. They had even come perilously close to being relegated on the day, and would have been had Fortuna Düsseldorf’s Rouwen Hennings made a better connection with a stoppage-time header against Augsburg. Werder’s top-flight tenure is hanging by a thread, but the thread is still holding. Just.
Written by Andy Brassell
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