Vlatko, I have to admit you are right in the point that Dinamo made a better game than Werder. They played better as a team against a Bremen side in which none of the players has made the whole preparation for the new season. A team that has never played in this formation before. And still, they beat Dinamo with their individual class and even managed to do a quite okay 2nd half.
But in two weeks, if no more Werder players get injured and they have the chance to develop some kind of teamplay, Dinamo will have no chance, not even at home.
About Modric: Did he play Copa America? No.
Did he do anything special yesterday? No.
And: The 2nd goal for Werder was scored by Jensen, not Almeida
I realise Werder had a lot of important players missing, especially in the middle because of Frings and Borowski, of course we can't forget Klose as well. But don't forget Dinamo lost their most important player in Da Silva, a man who scored 50 goals last season and is now playing for Arsenal. Add to that we also lost the most important player in our defense in Corluka, who now plays for Manchester City. So mind you, both teams were looking differently than usual and had a lot of important players missing. Trust me had Da Silva been there instead of that plonker Balaban, you could have easily had 3 goals in the back of your net and that's a fact.
Werder was lucky and from what I read in our newspapers, your media agrees that Werder was totally outplayed. I mean come on, your first goal was a gift from heaven, better yet our own moment of idiocy, and as Der Spiegel said Jensen's shot was a dream goal which goes in once in every 5 years. We had a lot of 100% chances, we had strikes from the outside, from the corners, we outplayed you in every aspect of the game.
Make no mistake, that's a quality of a big club like I said already, to be able to capitalise when most needed. We didn't do that and have no one else to blame but ourselves.
In two weeks if we manage to put in an effort like yesterday, I think we can seriously get into the CL. Problem is I don't think Werder will give us a chance like this anymore, it's obvious we were underestimated by them and they almost payed for that. I don't see this happening again in two weeks.
So what if he didn't play Coppa? Diego only played against Mexico from the first minute and they lost that game 2:0 and Diego got subbed at half-time if I remember correctly. All other games Diego played as a substitue without any real effect, he was one of the biggest disapointements there. Don't make it look like he did anything there, he hardly broke a sweat.
As for Modric, didn't do anything? He almost scored with a great shot outside the box in the first half, Wiesse saved it, he made numerous assists for us and was instrumental in organising the play for us. Not only that but he was everywhere on the pitch, both attack and deffense, one of the best players on the pitch. Please, give credit where it's due.
P.S. Sorry about that, I mixed up Jensen's and Almeida's goals.