47’ min.: GOOOAAALLL, 3-0 to Werder, Thomas Delaney. The Green-Whites extend their lead. Kruse picks up the ball in the wide left position and crosses for Delaney, who’s deflected header loops over the keeper and into the bottom corner.
54’ min.: Bartels almost adds another as he races through the middle of the Freiburg defence after a superb through ball from Kruse, but is denied by a strong left hand from SC keeper Schwolow.
64’ min.: Penalty to Freiburg. Garcia leans into Maximilian Philipp in his own penatly area and the referee points to the spot after the Freiburg players falls to the floor.
64’ min.: GOAL, one back for Freiburg, 1-3, Nils Petersen. Shame! Wiedwald saves the penalty down low to his right, but the Freiburg penalty taker is the quickest to react and scores from the rebound.
71’ min.: GOOOAAALLL, 4-1 to Werder, Fin Bartels. Werder reinstate their three goal lead. Grillitsch lays Kruse’s pass off to Delaney who miss-hits his shot only for Bartels to react brilliantly inside the box and deflect the ball into the net with a clever back-heel.
77’ min.: GOAL, 2-4, Vincenzo Grifo. The visitors pull a goal back through Grifo’s superb finish from the edge of the box which sails past Wiedwald into the bottom corner.
85’ min.: GOOOAAALLL, 5-2 to Werder, Thomas Delaney. Incredible! Delaney scores his third as he finds himself in space and heads in Kainz’s cross at the back post.
90’ + 1 min.: Referee Wolfgang Stark ends the game and Werder take all three points from Breisgau.
Conclusion: Alexander Nouri’s team needed a few minutes to adjust to the loss of Lamine Sané as Freiburg had the better of the opening exchanges. In the same way as against Leipzig, Werder struck with their first real shot at goal. Werder then defended resolutely, without penetrating the Freiburg back line when in attack. Freiburg head coach Christian Streich made three changes at half-time, but Delaney’s second which came just after the whistle for the second period gave Werder breathing space. In the final 25 minutes, some lapses in concentration at the back meant it wasn’t as comfortable as it could have been for Werder, but the Bremen side continued to be clinical in attack and deserved the victory.
