As Niklas Schmidt’s number came up on the fourth official’s board, a large portion of the 42,100 in attendance at the sold out wohninvest WESERSTADION took to their feet to applaud his performance in Werder’s 3-0 win over VfL Bochum, which saw him get on the scoresheet. It wasn’t just the crowd who were pleased with Schmidt, as teammate Marvin Ducksch made an effort to come over to the midfielder as he was heading off the field to congratulate him. He described his first Bundesliga goal at the wohninvest WESERSTADION as ‘unbelievably emotional and relieving’.