It just wasn’t Werder’s day. Rather than now pushing for a place in the middle of the Bundesliga table, the Green Whites are forced to look over their shoulder - the 3-1 home defeat to SC Freiburg was therefore a step back for SVW. “It was a tough day. We didn’t perform how we promised ourselves we would,” explained the self-critical Fin Bartels after the game. Frustration and disappointment characterised the Werder performance, especially in the first-half. “We were awful in the first 45 minutes,” said captain Clemens Fritz, on behalf of the whole team. “All in all, the performance we put in was not what we had envisaged. We didn’t do enough,” explained sporting director Frank Baumann.