Daniel Thioune had surely imagined things differently; his start as a Bundesliga coach began with three defeats. After the first two losses against Freiburg and Bayern—which, according to the man from Bremen, can happen—the 1:2 defeat at St. Pauli could have been avoided.
Thioune therefore had to admit, “I thought we were further along than we actually are,” as quoted by 'Deichstube.' “Right now, there isn’t much that speaks in our favor, so we have to win it back for ourselves, piece by piece.”
He found it grotesque how many wrong decisions he had seen from “so many good footballers.” The problem wasn’t a lack of quality, but rather a lack of self-confidence. To create positive moments again, the new Werder coach used a little trick.
During the video analysis on Monday morning, the Bremen professionals didn’t have to watch Mio Backhaus’s blunder again. Instead, they saw a compilation of good scenes from the keeper in the current season.
“The point was to show how good he actually is,” Thioune explained. The young goalkeeper enjoys the team’s full support, and now, more than ever, Werder must stand together as a team. So that, at the end of the season, the club doesn’t face the third relegation in its history.
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