yardımcı hakemler: joão santos (por), serafim baia nogueira (por)
4. hakem: rui manuel gomes costa (por)
bremen: tim wiese (gk), naldo, pierre wome (dk. 74 hugo almeida), per mertesacker, jurica vranješ, clemens fritz, diego, daniel jensen, torsten frings (c) (dk. 78 petri pasanen), miroslav klose, aaron hunt (dk. 74 christian schulz)
yedekler: andreas reinke (gk), kevin schindler, kevin artmann, amaury bischoff
teknik direktör: thomas schaaf (ger)
ajax: maarten stekelenburg(gk), john heitinga, jaap stam (c), hedwiges maduro, mitchell donald (dk. 72 kenneth perez), wesley sneijder, olaf lindenbergh, gabri, roger garcía, tom de mul (dk. 26 vurnon anita), ryan babel (dk. 72 leonardo)
yedekler: dennis gentenaar (gk), klaas-jan huntelaar, nicolae mitea, gregory van der wiel
werder bremen 3-0 afc ajax goals from per mertesacker, naldo and torsten frings condemned the high-flying dutch visitors to defeat in germany.
werder bremen made amends for a dip of form in the bundesliga by wearing down ten-man ajax for a convincing victory in wednesday's uefa cup round of 32 first-leg tie.
making merry after successive domestic defeats left them six points off the pace in the german title race, bremen made the most of ajax midfielder olaf lindenbergh's first-half dismissal thanks to second-half strikes from per mertesacker, naldo and torsten frings.
missed opportunities the dutch side were always facing an uphill struggle once lindenbergh had received his second yellow card within the space of three minutes, following a trip on frings, 24 minutes into this weserstadion encounter. bremen immediately spurned the chance of the breakthrough when no one applied the finishing touch to a fine miroslav klose cross. ryan babel was equally wasteful after wesley sneijder's good work had created the opening for ajax.
floodgates open ıt was the visitors who were left to rue their profligacy three minutes after the break when mertesacker struck after ajax keeper maarten stekelenburg had parried jurica vranješ' attempt following a corner. one became two soon after, naldo's header from a frings corner being adjudged to have crossed the line. naldo then nodded wide from an easier opportunity, before ajax's hedwiges maduro forced a save from tim wiese. the icing on the cake for thomas schaaf's men came on 71 minutes when frings converted klose's inviting cross, despite the best efforts of defender johnny heitinga. ajax were relieved to see a diego strike rebound off a post, leaving the deficit at 3-0 going into next week's return.
ligde son iki maçta kaybeden alman ekibi, uefa kupası'nda hollanda ikincisi ajax'ı 3-0 yenerek tur için avantaj yakaladı.
uefa kupası'nda werder bremen, ajax'ı 3-0 yenerek tur için büyük avantaj sağladı. hollanda ekibinde lindenbergh, 20. dakikada ikinci sarı karttan oyun dışı kalırken, 48'de mertesacker durumu 1-0 yaptı. altı dakika sonra naldo farkı ikiye çıkartırken, 71'de frings maçın skorunu belirledi.
