With five permitted substitutions, the risk of the coach being wrong is reduced, Ole Werner said.

You have to look at Werner when he lets out such sentences, because a twitch in the corners of the mouth or a slight change in the area around the eyes could indicate that what was just said was not meant to be taken seriously.

The reference to the many opportunities to swap players was a typical Werner response: just ward off too much praise, don't take anything from what the team owns.

Players appreciate coaches who give them the glory.

It's easy for the unpretentious Ole Werner to belittle his share.

On Saturday evening after Werder Bremen's 3-2 win at Borussia Dortmund, he was by no means celebrated for having had a particularly lucky hand three times - which had resulted in a historic victory: First Lee Buchanan and Niklas Schmidt equalized Dortmund's 2-0 then Werder turned the game around thanks to Oliver Burke's goal in the fifth minute of injury time.

Jokers with tradition

Never before had a team in the Bundesliga managed to turn such a deficit into a win so late.

Substitutes contributed all the goals.

Then, of course, Werner forgot his composure and stormed onto the pitch – much more impulsively than a week ago when Burke was also the scorer of the late goal in the 2-2 win against VfB Stuttgart.

Experienced jokers have a certain tradition in Bremen;

remember Nelson Valdez under Thomas Schaaf.

The fact that Burke tends to be dissatisfied with his role on the bench did not play a role at the weekend.

Because this Bremen victory was a real exclamation mark behind the ambitions of the promoted team and grist for the mills of those who like to label Werder as: "Not a normal promoted player".

It was unusual to have more than 60 percent possession of the ball in the second half, and the Bremen team used the game more often for the entire game.

No promoted team plays like that in Dortmund.

And yet the SVW did it, which had also appeared under Werner in the second division.

Dominant, confident.

In the first game in Wolfsburg, Werner's team tried to set the tone in a similar way.

That didn't work out against Stuttgart, which was not a problem, as the coach assured.

"We have to get used to the fact that we leave the games with 40, 45 percent." Maybe it will be like that again next Sunday against Frankfurt.

It was different against Dortmund.

And that impressed.

Since November 2021, Werder's head coach, Ole Werner has quickly won the hearts of the fans, also because he reminds of Thomas Schaaf with his dry manner.

Werner says he hasn't even met him yet.

On the other hand, he gave his team a style quite quickly.

It's fun to watch Werder again, and spectacles like Saturday's are a reminder of a well-known hallmark - that the green-whites are at least sometimes able to annoy the big ones and play thrillingly at the same time.

The fact that the current Werder vintage has a squad that is absolutely ready for the first division, in which there are professionals in central positions who were relegated a good year ago, should not be concealed.

Ole Werner had played nice but disciplined football in his two years in the second division at Holstein Kiel and only just missed promotion.

At the time, Werder first considered him as a successor to Florian Kohfeldt, but with his current contract in Kiel it seemed too complicated.

No bore

When the inglorious chapter of Markus Beginning ended early in Bremen, Werder was lucky that Ole Werner had been on the market since September – at Holstein, the club where he grew up, he had worn himself out and quit on his own.

In general, Kiel: He was only born in nearby Preetz (Ploen district) because all of Kiel's hospitals were full on May 4, 1988, he once said.

So he is by no means a “Preetzer”.

And a boring guy by no means.

He completed an apprenticeship at a bank, he wanted to become a vocational school teacher, he spent a year in Australia in a “work-and-travel” program and worked there as a gardener.

He then studied business education.

Ole Werner is also familiar with part-time jobs while coaching Holstein's juniors.

It wasn't particularly glamorous there.

Werner seems like a completely normal guy in the middle of life, and he would probably get along well with this description himself.

Since Saturday, a few more people with a green-and-white weakness have found that this style is a perfect match for Werder Bremen.