Long walking distances to celebrate: Bremen Jannik Vestergaard and Co.
Borussia Mönchengladbach is in the home stretch of the 2015 football out of steam. One week after the failure in the Champions League missed the Bundesliga Fifth also the leap into the quarter-finals of the DFB Cup. The big injury problems due to the last squad is beaten Mönchengladbach defeated Werder Bremen on Tuesday in a high-class Cup Fight with 3: 4 (1: 0) and had thus already the third defeat suffered in succession. The previously winless in four official matches Norddeutsche contrast attracted the first time after six years in the round of eight teams.
53 106 spectators at the Borussia-Park, the storm duo Claudio Pizarro scored (75th) and Anthony Ujah (78) in the closing stages to win out. Previously Janek Sternberg (52) and Jannik Vestergaard (58) have scored the first two hits Bremer, the Mönchengladbach goals marked Lars Stindl (32) and twice Branimir Hrgota (73rd and 90th + 3).
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For the first time since 1984 – at that time it had a memorable 5: 4 added Gladbach on the Bökelberg – met both clubs in the DFB Cup successive again. And this time it was a thrilling duel at eye level.
The Table 14th Werder presented itself not as a relegation and knew to prevent the Gladbacher offensive play well. The Hanseaten who defended high and boldly played forward, possessed in the early stages, even the significantly better scoring opportunities. But at a double chance Oldie Claudio Pizarro and Theodor Gebr Selassie (10th) was Borussia goalkeeper Yann Sommer twice on the spot. A minute later put Werder captain Clemens Fritz a shot only narrowly beside the post.
the overflowing joy at Green-Whites who today played in blue: Werder again in Cup mood Photogallery
The Gladbacher came only with difficulty in the game – also because making the injuries gradually noticeable. Seven players were missing the team of coach André Schubert. It is with Tony Jantschke, who at 0: 5 had suffered in Leverkusen as a third Gladbach player in this season a cruciate ligament tear, can not be expected in the longer term. The defender has already been operated on.
The first chance for the visitors was the Brazilian Raffael, who ran alone on goalkeeper Felix Wiedwald and missed (14). Then the Gladbach game was a lot of idle. The passing game was not working as usual – at least up to 32 minutes: Then it went fast, too fast for Bremer. About Mahmoud Dahoud and thorgan hazard got the ball to Stindl, the einschoss and already scored his fourth goal in the current Cup Competition. Until the half-time whistle there was more good opportunities Gladbach by Hazard (40th) and Raphael (44.).
After the break, Werder put on quite offensive – and was rewarded. Within seven minutes, the guests turned the match. Only Sternberg sat a shot from the left into the far corner, then hit Vestergaard from a short distance. Before summer had a free kick by Florian Grillitsch still steered the post.
On the other side however Hazard became almost a tragic figure. First he hit the inside of the post (57th), after he missed two more times in a promising position the goal (59th and 65th). Gladbacher came through the substitute Hrgota again back into the game (73), the joy was short-lived.
Pizarro struck from six yards after a fine pass from Levan Öztunali (75th), three minutes later Ujah sat skillfully through the box. The Gladbach Anschlusstor by Hrgota came too late.
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