"It was pinball; Marco Grull's delivery was headed out, nodded back towards goal by Isaac Schmidt and heading out for a goal-kick, only for Senne Lynen to stretch and just about keep it in, slicing it up in the air, before it fell to Keke Topp. It felt as if the 21-year-old's sublime finish had been cut and pasted from a different sequence entirely, a sumptuous left-foot volley on the swivel that arrowed past Borussia Monchengladbach's goalkeeper, Moritz Nicolas, hitting the net."
"they had finally, improbably coaxed the sound of the ship horn and The Proclaimers' 500 Miles from the Weserstadion's speakers with a goal to snatch a point at the last. It still wasn't enough for Horst Steffen. At 9.45am on Sunday morning the sporting directorm, Clemens Fritz, a veteran of considerably more successful Werder teams as a player, entered the Weser dressing room to tell the players that Steffen's reign was over."
A last-ditch set piece in the fourth of five minutes of stoppage time produced a dramatic sequence that ended with Keke Topp's sublime left-foot volley to level for Werder Bremen. The passage involved Marco Grull's delivery, Isaac Schmidt's flick and Senne Lynen's desperate intervention before the finish that electrified the Weserstadion. Supporters celebrated as the goal snatched a point at the death. The result did not prevent immediate managerial action. Sporting director Clemens Fritz entered the dressing room the next morning and informed the squad that Horst Steffen had been dismissed amid poor results and constrained transfer resources.
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