You get the impression that the Werder Bremen players’ are feeling the pressure due to the latest bad moment at the club. The German media has released pictures of a training ground bust up between two of the Werder Bremen players’ in their afternoon training session. The two professionals who were involved were Davie Selke and team captain Clemens Fritz, who clearly embarrassed themselves after a brawl commenced due a high flying tackle between the pair. ‘Die Werderaner’ are not competing well at this moment in time and manager Robin Dutt will not want this to deal with also.

This incident comes on the back of a defeat to the hands of Hertha BSC when they were defeated 3-2 in the capital city in the evening kick off on Saturday. Also FC Bayern München beat them 7-0 on their home ground, which humiliated SV Werder Bremen and the confidence from the years ago has seemed to leave the Weserstadion. This is not alien to SV Werder Bremen though as they have had to deal with a similar situation in the past when former players Marko Arnautovic and Sokratis Papastathopoulos were caught fighting on camera earlier this year. The past few seasons have hurt the Bremen faithful as they were used to witnessing their team in the UEFA Champions League and battling the top teams in the Bundesliga.

Team captain Clemens Fritz has already been in the media recently expressing that he will be considering his future very soon. Fritz’s current contract is set to expire in the summer but if he manages to preserve a routine starting place in the team it will activate a clause that will extend his contract by one year. Clemens Fritz has recently commented on the contract situation by saying, "My contract is actually valid until the end of the season and I won a clause that is tied to a certain amount of first-team appearances” and followed this with, "This is no secret at all. We will be sitting down come springtime of 2014. I am without injuries and feel good in physical terms.”

However he did express that he has not been happy with his performances by gesturing, "Still I am not happy with my level of performances this season." This period Clemens Fritz has played thirteen times playing 1115 minutes on the pitch in the Bundesliga. He has had 713 touches of the ball in all of that time and fouled opponents twenty-five times. He has attempted 229 tackles winning 57.2% of them and forty aerial challenges being victorious in 62.5%. He has not scored any goals this season but he has two assists and has created twenty chances for his peers. The 33 year old is a very important player for SV Werder Bremen.

However, Davie Selke is a player that is very much still learning his trade at SV Werder Bremen. Davie Selke moved to the city of Bremen in the winter break of 2012 from Hoffenheim and has usually played in the second team moving his way up to the top flight. This campaign he has played one match from the start but had three appearances in the first team. He has taken part in 128 minutes for SV Werder Bremen and had fifty-four touches of the ball. He has attempted thirty passes completing 60% of them and endeavoured sixty-nine tackles completing only 40.6% of them, however he is a forward thinking player. But Davie Selke will want to keep away from incidents like he has had with Clemens Fritz as it may damage his future plans with the club.

They currently sit in fourteenth place with sixteen points and have a minus sixteen goal difference. They have scored twenty-one goals but conceded a whopping thirty-seven, which poses a huge concern for manager Robin Dutt. The league is still pretty much very tight and SV Werder Bremen could still achieve a lot out of this campaign if they manage to gather a consistent run of results. They host Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the game before the Christmas break and going out on a positive note will only benefit the team and the atmosphere when they return in January against Eintracht Braunschweig. Confrontations like the one involving Davie Selke and Clemens Fritz is one Robin Dutt will want to forget about.