{"id":16005,"date":"2017-11-20T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T13:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/11\/20\/werder-bremen-and-showman-max-kruse-keep-reality-from-the-door-andy-brassell\/"},"modified":"2017-11-20T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T13:57:00","slug":"werder-bremen-and-showman-max-kruse-keep-reality-from-the-door-andy-brassell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=16005","title":{"rendered":"Werder Bremen and showman Max Kruse keep reality from the door | Andy Brassell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max Kruse\u2019s hat-trick brought relief at the Weserstadion, but questions over the club\u2019s long-term \u2013 and even medium-term \u2013 plan remain\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who scores the goals,\u201d said Max Kruse on Thursday, and it sounded like he believed it. Yet even if it doesn\u2019t quite mean everything, it means a lot. That much was evident after he retired to the bench a few minutes from the end from Werder Bremen\u2019s emphatic 4-0 win over Hannover on Sunday, their first of the season, having hit a hat-trick \u2013 his first goals of the season. Kruse goofed around, whooping and pulling faces at the television cameras. The supporters\u2019 relief was palpable. Not just at the result, but at their star forward taking centre stage again.Kruse reiterated that idea of the collective afterwards, saying he was \u201ceven happier about the team\u2019s performance\u201d than he was about his contribution, and the others certainly put in a shift. Nobody in the Bundesliga, for example, ran more than midfielder Maximilian Eggestein\u2019s 13.4km this weekend. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/blog\/2017\/nov\/20\/werder-bremen-fun-max-kruse-hannover-bundesliga\" target=\"_blank\">Werder Bremen and showman Max Kruse keep reality from the door | Andy Brassell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max Kruse\u2019s hat-trick brought relief at the Weserstadion, but questions over the club\u2019s long-term \u2013 and even medium-term \u2013 plan remain\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter who scores the goals,\u201d said Max Kruse on Thursday, and it sounded like he believed it. Yet even if it doesn\u2019t quite mean everything, it means a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}