having read the report and your comments shows that there wasn't an easy way out of the situation they were in.
there are several opinions of all of you who have read the report. I would have done this, I would have done that.
This alone shows that there were different possibilities, Werneuchen maybe not the ideal one. The real problem IMHO lies more in the CRM when they have been informed about the earth wall, the captain on the other hand tells the FO to "land wherever he wants".
To err around in the skies is one issue, to ignore the messages from the controller is another one. The second one could have been disastrous, the first one probably not.
Over to you more experienced guys...