Two set-pieces cost Werder Bremen and prevented them from taking at least a point from Matchday 4. A fast-paced, exciting 90 minutes in which Werder dominated many periods ended, however, in the Green-Whites going down 2-1 to FC Schalke 04. In front of 42,100 people inside the sold-out Weserstadion, Lamine Sané put the hosts into the lead (20th minute) but the equaliser came just two minutes later. Milos Veljkovic mistakenly headed the ball past his own ‘keeper from a Schalke corner (22’). Shortly beforehand, Max Kruse had to come off with a shoulder injury. Werder put the pressure on in the second half yet again but Leon Goretzka scored the winner from another corner (83’). And Bremen couldn’t come back from this late sucker-punch.