A good start to the season can suddenly trigger title dreams for teams promoted to 1. FC Köln – while a bad start can quickly lead to chaos and fears of relegation. And it is despite the fact that the season is much longer than the first days of the match, and things often seem very different at the end. This is why many agree: we can save ourselves by looking at the league table in the first days of the match, or at least not to use it as an evaluation base. The same goes for the work of many coaches: unless there is a huge pressure as at Bayer Leverkusen in the opening days, the clubs generally give the new time to develop the team and implement their gaming philosophy.
This is also why the new Bremen Horst Steffen coach hopes. “After eight or ten days of match, you can see how the start went. After ten days of match, you can ask me,” said the coach quoted by “Bild” regarding his assessment of the start of the season. Ten days of match – It would be after the match against Wolfsburg on November 7, while almost 30% of the games were played.
Currently, Werder is located in 16th place with only one point of two games and is already out of the cup. For Steffen, there is no reason to worry. In addition to the many new signatures that still have to settle in Bremen, there is also a long list of injuries along the Weser. He also cited anecdotal evidence in his conversation with “Bild”: “I was once at the bottom of the table after the third day of light and I ended up being promoted.” At the time, he was coach at Elversberg In the RegionalLiga Südwest – and we all know how this story ended. This afternoon, Steffen’s team will play their third Bundesliga match of the season-in Gladbach at 5.30 p.m., this may be that the foundation will be posed as regards Steffen’s work after ten days of match.
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