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FC St. Pauli 1-3 SV Werder Bremen
The outlook for FC St. Pauli appears increasingly bleak in the wake of another home defeat, this time against Bremen. While Werder can effectively wave goodbye to their relegation concerns on 38 points, the Hamburg club drop to bottom on goal difference behind Wolfsburg, who host Köln on Sunday.
After a scrappy opening to the contest from both sides, Bremen almost went in front in the 13th minute, Claudio Pizarro thumping a Sandro Wagner cross against the post from a tight angle. Werder sought to up the pressure on the hosts in the period that followed, but clear-cut chances were at a premium. Guest keeper Tim Wiese meanwhile was having a very quiet day, but that was rudely interrupted in the 29th minute when the Millerntor erupted as St. Pauli went in front. Ralph Gunesch picked up the ball after Marko Marin lost possession and played it into the gap for Fin Bartels, whose shot on the turn dipped over Wiese into the far corner of the net.
Pizarro the matchwinner
A battling end to the first half merged into an equally competitive start to the second, and five minutes in Werder pulled level courtesy of an own goal. Philipp Bargfrede worked his way down the right and played in a low ball that Markus Thorandt, trying to clear ahead of Sandro Wagner, could only turn past his own keeper, Benedikt Pliquett. Bremen were the side on the up in the period that followed, although Gerald Asamoah (52') and Charles Takyi (62') both squandered chances to put St. Pauli back in front.
The contest was eventually decided inside the space of a minute, with Claudio Pizarro doing the damage. In the 73rd minute the Peruvian frontman headed Bremen on front following a corner from Torsten Frings. Sixty seconds later he ran onto a through ball from Marin and rounded Pliquett to wrap things up for Thomas Schaaf's ever-improving troops.
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