{"id":104038,"date":"2025-10-04T19:16:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:16:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/?p=104038"},"modified":"2025-10-04T19:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T19:18:50","slug":"werder-bremen-accept-ugly-win-over-st-pauli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/werder-bremen-accept-ugly-win-over-st-pauli\/","title":{"rendered":"Werder Bremen accept &#8216;ugly win&#8217; over St. Pauli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Werder Bremen captain Marco Friedl &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/marco-friedl-criticizes-werder-bremen-management-after-cup-elimination-were-in-deep-st\/\">for whom the start to competitive play got off to the worst of all possible starts<\/a> &#8211; has seen his mood slowly improve as Bundesliga season progresses. For all of their issues this year, Friedl&#8217;s <em>Hanseaten <\/em>were able to snatch their second league victory of the season on Saturday. The narrow 1-0 home win over FC St. Pauli certainly wasn&#8217;t pretty, but the three points still count.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/2025\/official-werder-bremen-complete-record-purchase-of-samuel-mbangula\/\">Blockbuster summer signing Samuel Mbangula<\/a> opened up the scoring early, notching his second Bundesliga goal in the 2nd minute. After that, Werder weren&#8217;t able to convert their momentum, and several additional scoring chances, into a second goal. The hosts were at least able to defend consistently over the course of the additional 88 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Sky Germany<\/strong> afterwards, Bremen head coach Horst Steffen praised his team for its solid defending throughout and added that &#8211; on a cumulative basis &#8211; Werder contributed &#8220;<em>about a half hour of decent football<\/em>&#8220;. Steffen also conceded that &#8220;<em>an equalizer would not have been undeserved<\/em>&#8221; as the visiting Kiezkicker got their looks in as well.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<em>We didn&#8217;t do well in many situations,<\/em>&#8221; Friedl noted in his post-match interview with<strong> DAZN<\/strong>. &#8220;<em>And we made many mistakes. Such victories come over the course of a season. One can take them. I&#8217;m happy that we won today, even if it was an ugly win.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/\">GGFN<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/PeterVicey\"><strong>Peter Weis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Werder Bremen captain Marco Friedl was in a halfway decent mood on Saturday afternoon for once.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12312420,"featured_media":104039,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[335,11,109,18],"tags":[449,2690,1995,1028,2970,966,478],"class_list":["post-104038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sv-werder-bremen","category-bundesliga","category-st-pauli","category-news","tag-bundesliga","tag-horst-steffen","tag-marco-friedl","tag-news","tag-samuel-mbangula","tag-st-pauli","tag-werder-bremen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12312420"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104040,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104038\/revisions\/104040"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsgermany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}