“He didn’t overload the team with new ideas, just selectively changed things,” said club legend and current head of scouting and first-team football, Clemens Fritz. “Ole exudes calmness and clarity. And it all works well.”

In modern football where you see coaches like Bayern Munich’s Julian Nagelsmann switching between formations, even during games, Werner very much keeps it simple. He’s set up this Werder team in a 3-5-2, and the man from Preetz doesn’t change his winning formula unless he has to.

Perhaps even more crucial is how he’s brought together the front two of Niclas Füllkrug and Marvin Ducksch. The duo have a combined 31 goals and 12 assists this season, while the latter equalled Rudi Völler’s club record scoring run by bagging in seven consecutive matches - also Werner's first seven that all resulted in victory - from 1983.

The pair have jokingly nicknamed themselves ‘the ugly birds’. Yet Werner sees nothing unattractive about how they’re playing. “It’s important to have players who can make a breakthrough in such a difficult game. They work very well together, understand each other as a team. Selfishness plays no part,” he said in the wake of the 2-1 win at Rostock that took Werder into the automatic promotion places for the first time this season.

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