Werder in the Cup : Bremen to win against Schalke 2:0

Werder Bremen continued its flight in the DFB Cup and can now dream of his eleventh final. The team of coach Florian Kohfeldt prevailed in the quarter-finals on Wednesday evening after a hard-fought game at the end thanks to higher effectiveness with a 2:0 (0:0) in-crisis FC Schalke 04. Before 61 597 spectators in the Veltins-Arena, the strong striker Milot Rashica (65 ensured. Minute) and Davy Klaassen (72.) for the second success of the North German in the seventh Cup duel with king blue. The precinct club, held in the third game, "century coach" Huub Stevens for a long time and can now focus on the Bundesliga relegation battle.

Motivated by the recent 1:0 victory in Hannover, I noticed Schalke that the team wanted to fight in spite of a disastrous Bundesliga season, their last shot at the Title. "I think that the players would also like to reach the final. Because this is something Special,“ said the 65-year-old Dutchman before the fight.

Werder to the front of the long low

The five-time Cup winner in the early stages in front of their own Fans in the same way accents and had a little more of the game, captain Max Kruse at Werder pace. However, many actions on both sides had fallen flat in the midfield. Game flow was rare, and a good fire was rare in the Cup game.

A moment of shock experienced by the hosts, as the Schalke Keeper Alexander Nübel could not hold on to a tight shot of Marco Friedl, Benjamin Stambouli had to clarify in the highest Distress (25.). Bremen had before the break, a little more possession and won more duels, but the advantage brought nothing countable.

Because of the Offensive, the team of Kohfeldt presented for a long time surprisingly weak, the game designers hardly had any ideas. The best and only Chance for the tables to Sixth in the Bundesliga before the break, Johannes Eggestein, awarded after passing of brother Maximilian: The Ball sailed narrowly wide of the post (43.).

Nassim Boujellab for Bundesliga 14. from Gelsenkirchen, his first competitive game in the starting lineup, and denied, played a Central behind the strikers Breel Embolo and Guido Burgstaller. Shortly after the break of the 19-Year-old would have achieved after a courageous Solo almost the guide for Royal blue. Schalke were now in charge, the goal was in the air, Burgstaller met four meters of the post (52.).

But it was not to Rashica brought the six-time Cup winner with a cracker from the box in the lead; when 2:0 elegantly received Klaassen the Ball expertly to Nübel in the past. Nuri Sahin will miss his team in the semifinals: After a clumsy two combat action he saw because of repeated foul game in the final minute Yellow-Red.

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For Schalke cost it was the 17. Quarter-final match at home in the DFB Cup - only the second to have lost the king's blue now. About three weeks ago, when 2:4 in the Bundesliga match in Bremen, was Domenico Tedesco is on Schalke's bench, four days later, the 0:7, followed by the debacle in the Champions League at Manchester City. Now, the lights went out in the DFB-Pokal. The Werder Fans are dreaming of a Cup semi-final against HSV - inclusive trip to Berlin. (dpa)