Romano Schmid is a highly talented attacking player in the SV Werder Bremen squad, as can be seen from the 21-year-old’s 41 competitive appearances for the club so far. Against Aue, the Austrian also rewarded himself with a goal for the first time.
Naturally, Ole Werner referred to his co-coach Patrick Kohlmann Last Monday, when SV Werder Bremen presented their new coach to the public, the 33-year-old was already asked about the assistant with whom he had already formed a duo at Holstein Kiel. “Kohle has a very good eye for individual players,” Werner thus explained, “he knows the 2nd Bundesliga better than almost anyone else when it comes to this aspect.”
So it was not particularly surprising that the new Werder co-coach was also well aware of Romano Schmid and thus: of his goal-less drought. In contrast to Werner, who admitted: “I had that less on my mind than Patrick Kohlmann.” What Werner had clearly heard, however, was that Schmid “stood at the sixteen a couple of times during the week and actually pretty much had one of those put on him. “
This “thing”, by which Bremen’s coach meant the “just really nice goal “, with which Schmid celebrated his premiere in his 42nd appearance for Werder, came after just seven minutes. After a ball loss by Aue’s Sam Schreck, the Austrian U-21 international (4 goals in 13 games) took the ball with a contact, measured it from 18 metres and flicked it into the right corner. The opening goal marked the start of what was, in the end, a fully successful 4-0 Werner debut.
“After a year and a half, I think it’s fair to say that the first goal is always good for an attacking player,” said a delighted Schmid: “Of course it’s even nicer that it was such a good one. The fact that his knot burst immediately during Werner’s coaching debut was not something he wanted to pin on his lapel; in view of his first impressions during the week, he said: “Maybe it was also his training work.
