Bremen (Germany) (AFP)

Werder Bremen moved away from maintaining, losing in the final moments against Wolfsburg (1-0), Sunday on the 30th day of the Bundesliga.

The draw of Düsseldorf (16th) and the victory of Mainz (15th), his two competitors, make this defeat a very bad operation for the Brêmois.

The Werder, an emblematic club which has known the second division for only one season since the creation of the single pool in the Bundesliga in 1963, remains 17th, three points behind the roadblocker four days to go.

This second consecutive loss sweeps a little more the hopes born of the good series of seven points in three games which seemed to have launched at the restart of the season.

The Werder cracked in the last quarter of an hour, while the storm fell on the banks of the Weser. Wout Weghorst, header (82nd), sealed the dominance of the visitors, who had touched the bar by Xaver Schlager a minute earlier (81st).

This success allows Wolfsburg to stay in the wagon for the Europa League (6th) before receiving its competitor Friborg (8th) for a decisive shock.

The calendar also reserves for the Werder "finals" for the maintenance, starting with a trip to the red lantern Paderborn next Saturday, perhaps his last chance match.

Before the match, the players of the two teams put a knee on the ground, in a gesture of support for the fight against racism, after the death of George Floyd.

Players, referees and coaches did the same before Union Berlin-Schalke. On Saturday, Bayern and Dortmund warmed up with t-shirts evoking the worldwide protest movement "BlackLivesMatter".

In the other two matches of the afternoon, Schalke 04 (10th) could not have done better than a 1-1 draw on the lawn of Union Berlin (13th), just like Augsburg (14th) against Cologne (12th), these four teams have not yet ensured their maintenance.

Schalke, unable to win in the Bundesliga for twelve games, relied on his English defender Jonjoe Kenny, author of a 20 m strike in the small left net (28th) to respond to the opening score of Robert Andrich (11th).

On Augsburg lawn, French striker Anthony Modeste, only needed four minutes after entering the game to score his fourth goal of the season (86th), the third in his last four games.

But Augsburg, who missed a penalty in the first period, equalized less than two minutes later thanks to a flat recovery from the foot of his defender Philipp Max (88th) and now has three points ahead of Düsseldorf, barrage.

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