55’ min.: Kainz, Kruse and Bartels are causing Ingolstadt problems. Bartels carries the ball into the penatly area, but his shot from the left-hand-side goes wide of the far post.
58‘ min.: Hadergjonaj gets past Bauer with help from Pascal Groß and dribbles along the goal line from the right corner, plays it into the box Cohen’s shot just goes wide of the post.
60’ min.: Ingolstadt keep the pressure on. Lezcano dribbles into the penalty area on the right-hand-side and finds Cohen, but his header lacks precision.
61’ Min.: PENALTY TO INGOLSTADT! Mistake by referee Schmidt. Cohen goes down the penatly area and Moisander is judged to have fouled him, but replays show there was no contact.
62’ min.: GOAL, 2-1 to Ingolstadt, Pascal Groß. Wiedwald dives the right way and gets a hand on it, but he can’t stop it nestling in the bottom right-hand corner.
75’ min.: The Green-Whites have 15 minutes to turn things around. Nouri makes a double change: Claudio Pizarro and Serge Gnabry come on for Grillitsch and Veljkovic.
81’ min.: GOOOAAALLL, 2-2, Max Kruse. Werder are level for a second time and once again it’s Max Kruse. Ingolstadt keeper Hansen and centre-back Tisserand go for the same ball and a weak punch from the goalie lands at Kruse’s feet. The Werder striker makes no mistake as he takes one touch and finds the back of the net.
87’ min.: GOOOAAALLL, 3-2 to Werder, Max Kruse. The Green-Whites do turn it around. Kainz carries the ball into the Ingolstadt half and plays a square pass to Kruse who curls a delightful shot from the edge of the box into the bottom right-hand corner.
90 + 4’ min.: GOOOAAALLL, 4-2 to Werder, Max Kruse. INCREDIBLE! Kruse finishes off a counter attack by walking the ball into an empty net after the Ingolstadt keeper went forward for a corner. Bartels plays a perfect through ball and Kruse stays onside and finishes for his fourth of the afternoon.
90 + 4’ Min.: FULL-TIME! Werder take all three points in Ingolstadt.
Conclusion: The Werder attack found it difficult against a resolute Ingolstadt defence for large parts of the game. As expected, the home team were energetic and pressed the Green-Whites hard in their own half. There were some lapses in concentration at the back from Bremen, one of which led to the opening goal, however, a well worked counter attack which resulted in a penalty for the away side ensured that, despite a tough first-half, the sides went in level at half-time. Alexander Nouri reacted to going behind in the second-half by throwing on Pizarro and Gnabry and it worked. Werder turned the game around thanks to some clinical finishing from the in-form Max Kruse.
