Werder Bremen continued his awakening to avoid his decline to the second degree, and defeated his host Schalke 1-0, Saturday in the 29th stage of the German Football League.
Leonardo Betancourt scored the only goal in the 32nd minute, with Bremen achieving his fourth successive win in his last four visits to Schalke 04.
Bremen raised its score to 25 points in the penultimate position, two points behind Fortuna Dusseldorf XVI, who later plays with leaders Bayern Munich and champions, and three points behind Mainz, who fell to his home team Hoffenheim 0-1. Bremen has a deferred match for Wednesday against Eintracht Frankfurt.
The resumption of football competition in Germany two weeks ago early compared to its neighbors in Western Europe who will return in June, knowing that the death rate in the country due to "Covid-19" is one of the lowest in Europe and the world. Amid strict health measures and restrictions imposed by a protocol that touched on the smallest details, the wheel of the Bundesliga reverted without the masses.
After the return of the league, Bremen lost 1-4 from Leverkusen, then beat Freiburg 1-0 and tied negatively with the strong Moenchengladbach.
Bremen made the start of a very bad season, after the fall of Hamburg in 2018 and Stuttgart in 2019, the green team seemed on its way to the second-class tasted orphaned in 1981, after it was one of the founders of the Bundesliga in 1963.
Bremen, who holds the record number of posts in the Bundesliga (56 seasons), is one of the oldest clubs in the league and was the most prominent opponent for Bayern Munich between 1980 and 2010.
Bremen won the title four times and the League-Cup double in 2004, the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1992 and reached the European Cup final (Europa League now) in 2009, and he was a permanent participant in the Champions League early in the third millennium.
His colors included the likes of Rudi Voller, Miroslav Klose, Frenchman Johan Meco, Masoud Ozil and Peruvian Claudio Pizarro and coached by the giant Otto Rehagel (1981-1995) and Thomas Schaff (1999-2013).
On the other hand, Schalke was unable to win for the eleventh time in a row, and I lost the fourth time after the return, knowing that he was occupying the third position last December.