Bundesliga Player Check | Werder Bremen scoring debutant Salim Musah (20) stirs excitement
Bundesliga Player Check | Werder Bremen scoring debutant Salim Musah (20) stirs excitement Daniel Thioune’s Werder Bremen ended up losing their Bundesliga match against RB Leipzig yesterday, but there were still plenty of positives to take from a narrow loss against former head coach Ole Werner’s German Red Bulls. Thioune’s team – having won three of their last five Bundesliga fixtures – still remain four points above the relegation playoff place. Young striker Salim Musah (20) also became the sixth Werder player to score his first Bundesliga goal this season.
Musah’s five young Werder colleagues have made important contributions too. Musah is one of a cohort of young players who have helped keep this injury ravaged squad rise above the relegation fray. In a recent Get German Football News “Relegation Check” feature , this website predicted that Thioune’s team possessed enough talent and momentum to extricate themselves from the race.
Recent performances, and an easy enough remaining schedule, appear to render it likely that Thioune has beaten back the long odds he faced at the beginning of his appointment. Werder remain without a proven natural No. 9 on their squad.
Midfielder Jens Stage (7 goals) remains the team’s leading goal-scorer. While German attacker Justin Njinmah has chipped in with a respectable five goals this season, the 25-year-old hasn’t been consistent in his unnatural role alone up top. Massive summer transfer bust Victor Boniface is surprisingly on track to make an improbable comeback, but still hasn’t scored a single goal in the colors of his Bundesliga club.
Thanks to the modest contributions of the “Werder Six”, he may not need to. Who are the Werder Bremen Six Scoring Debutants? Leeds United loanee Isaac Schmidt (one goal), expensive summer purchase Samuel Mbangula (three goals), influential Stuttgart loanee Jovan Milosevic (three goals) all have interesting stories in their own right.
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