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Werder Bremen showed a convincing reaction to the Hoffenheim debacle in the Bundesliga.

Against the Champions League candidate Eintracht Frankfurt, the table twelfth won on Friday evening after an early deficit with 2: 1 (0: 1).

All three goals in this game were a topic of conversation.

The early Frankfurt 1-0 through André Silva should not have fallen in the 9th minute, as there was an unjustified corner kick for Eintracht before the 19th goal of the season by the Portuguese.

Both the 1: 1 by Theodor Gebre Selassie (47th) and the 2: 1 by Joshua Sargent (62nd) then called the video assistant on the scene.

With the first hit, he corrected a wrong offside decision by the referee team.

To be on the safe side, he checked the winning goal again.

In addition, two more Bremen goals were not given because of offside.

Nonetheless, Werder was only a week after the 4-0 defeat at 1899 Hoffenheim.

Before the three key games in the DFB Cup with Jahn Regensburg and in the Bundesliga with direct competitors 1. FC Köln and Arminia Bielefeld, this should give the team an important boost.

Silva's early goal caused bad news for Werder

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Less than five years after their relegation battle final, both teams met this time under completely different circumstances.

While Eintracht and Werder were still competitors against relegation in 2016, a Champions League candidate has now competed in the Weserstadion - and has been correspondingly confident.

Less than ten minutes were played when Silva took the lead.

The 25-year-old Portuguese was last absent from the 2-1 win against Bayern Munich due to back problems.

Amin Younes played a corner, but after studying the TV pictures it seemed to be unjustified, briefly on Filip Kostic, whose cross Silva headed into the far corner.

For the goal scorer, Real Madrid loan Luka Jovic had to sit back on the bench.

The 37-year-old Makoto Hasebe moved from the central midfield to the middle of the defense.

The defense of the Hessians initially allowed little.

When the ball landed in the Frankfurt goal after just under half an hour, referee Robert Hartmann correctly did not give the goal because of offside.

The Eintracht initially appeared in combination, let the ball and Werder run.

“I'm very excited about today and I'm sure we'll show a reaction,” Kohfeldt said immediately before the game at DAZN and announced “lust for battle”.

His team then showed this more and more after the cautious first 20 minutes.

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Milot Rashica had two good chances (26th / 28th) - and a little later an even better one when he profited from a mistake by Hasebe and failed with his soulful shot against the crossbar (34th).

Werder's strategy of closing the center and using Rashica's pace worked better and better as the playing time increased.

Bremen's licensed player manager Clemens Fritz also called for “more courage” in his half-time analysis.

Immediately after the change, the deserved compensation fell.

After a fine pass from Rashica, Gebre Selassie overcame Frankfurt goalkeeper Kevin Trapp - and after video evidence, the goal was recognized.

Just like the Sergents Gate a little later, which was also checked and held.

The uncertainty of the referee team had a major impact on the game.

It became more and more heated, almost every decision was also discussed from the sidelines.

Eintracht coach Adi Hütter repeatedly clashed with his colleague Kohfeldt and reacted in the 65th minute to the deficit with a three-way substitution by Jovic, Ajdin Hrustic and Aymen Barkok.

The Frankfurters braced themselves against their first defeat of the year and pushed for an equalization - in the end in vain.

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