Hannover 96 vs Werder Bremen: Soccer match preview

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Competition: Germany 2. Bundesliga
Competition: Sun 19.December
Match begins: 12:30 (UTC)
Venue: HDI-Arena (49000 seats)

Club members at HDI-Arena haven’t witnessed many wins this season, with Hannover 96 rotting in the 13th position. The opposing Werder Bremen will hope to protect their higher league spot in this game.

Insights:
  • Hannover 96 have the fewest scored goals in the second half (5) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Werder Bremen have scored more than double the goals of Hannover 96.

Hannover 96 and Werder Bremen should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Hannover 96 form and stats

The overall 2. Bundesliga stats playing at home this season for Hannover 96 are 3-2-3 (wins-draws-losses).

A good away victory last time out for Hannover, who won 2-1 against Ingolstadt (placed 18th). Sei Muroya, defender, was given a rating of 7.45/10 in that game, top of the team. Muroya served one assist, hit three key passes and won 7 of 11 duels.

Before that, Hannover had a home game versus Hamburger SV which ended with a victory 1-0.

The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Hannover 96 here at HDI-Arena in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (5 from 8 games). Hannover are not conceding a lot of goals here at HDI-Arena in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 7 from 8 matches.

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Werder Bremen form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their 2. Bundesliga travels is 4 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Two travels in a row for Werder Bremen, whose manager Werner could celebrate last time after the 2. Bundesliga win against Jahn Regensburg. The attacker Marvin Ducksch got a match rating of 7.84 in that game. Ducksch scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit three key passes and had 34 successful passes (of 38 total).

That result followed a home victory 4-0 versus Erzgebirge Aue.

The travelling fans enjoy Werder Bremen's attacking play in away games, having scored 14 goals in 9 league matches away. As for defending, Werder rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 15 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two teams in this fixture also met each other previously this campaign: Werder Bremen - Hannover 96 1-1. Hannover 96-Werder Bremen H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Hannover 96 two wins, Werder Bremen five wins, three draws. four of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Werder BremenM. Ducksch
M. Ducksch
7 goals
Werder BremenN. Füllkrug
N. Füllkrug
5 goals
HannoverS. Kerk
S. Kerk
4 goals

Hannover 96 missing players

Werder Bremen missing players

Hannover 96 Werder Bremen
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
17 8 1 Played P 3 9 17
5 3 1 Won W 1 4 7
5 2 0 Drew D 1 2 5
7 3 0 Lost L 1 3 5
13 5 1 Scored S 6 14 28
23 7 0 Conceded C 4 15 24
88% 88% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 89% 94%
65% 38% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 94%
41% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 89% 71%
18% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 33% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 18%
35% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 56% 53%
35% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 33% 22% 29%
41% 38% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 24%
 
5.5 5.5 10 Corners for (avg) C F 6.7 6.1 6.4
4.8 4.9 4 Corners against (avg) C A 3 3.4 3.2
2.1 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2.7 2.4
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
12.7 12 12 Shots (avg) S ( 16.7 16.8 16.3
3.2 3.5 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.3 5.4 5.4
24% 18% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 32% 29% 31%
 
13.3 13.6 13 Shots against (avg) S A 13.3 12.6 11.9
4.4 3.9 4 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.3 4.2 3.8
Key stats in 2. Bundesliga this season:
  • Hannover 96 have the fewest scored goals in the second half (5) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Hannover 96 have the most matches under the total-line (10) in 2. Bundesliga
  • Werder Bremen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Werder Bremen have scored more than double the goals of Hannover 96.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 St. Pauli 17 11 3 3 37 20 8 8 0 0 24 5 9 3 3 3 13 15 17 36
2 Darmstadt 98 17 10 2 5 39 20 8 6 0 2 21 6 9 4 2 3 18 14 19 32
3 Hamburger SV 17 7 8 2 30 17 9 4 5 0 19 9 8 3 3 2 11 8 13 29
4 Schalke 04 17 9 2 6 33 22 9 5 1 3 23 14 8 4 1 3 10 8 11 29
5 Jahn Regensburg 17 8 4 5 35 26 9 5 2 2 24 15 8 3 2 3 11 11 9 28
6 Paderborn 17 7 6 4 30 19 9 2 3 4 11 12 8 5 3 0 19 7 11 27
7 Nürnberg 17 7 6 4 24 20 9 5 2 2 14 7 8 2 4 2 10 13 4 27
8 Heidenheim 17 8 3 6 21 23 9 5 3 1 13 8 8 3 0 5 8 15 -2 27
9 Werder Bremen 17 7 5 5 28 24 8 3 3 2 14 9 9 4 2 3 14 15 4 26
10 Karlsruher SC 17 6 6 5 29 26 9 4 3 2 18 13 8 2 3 3 11 13 3 24
11 Dynamo Dresden 17 7 1 9 20 22 8 5 0 3 12 6 9 2 1 6 8 16 -2 22
12 Fortuna Dusseldorf 17 5 5 7 23 24 8 1 4 3 12 13 9 4 1 4 11 11 -1 20
13 Hannover 96 17 5 5 7 13 23 8 3 2 3 5 7 9 2 3 4 8 16 -10 20
14 Hansa Rostock 17 5 4 8 19 29 8 2 2 4 9 14 9 3 2 4 10 15 -10 19
15 Holstein Kiel 17 4 6 7 20 30 9 3 2 4 10 16 8 1 4 3 10 14 -10 18
16 Erzgebirge Aue 17 3 5 9 14 27 9 2 2 5 7 12 8 1 3 4 7 15 -13 14
17 Sandhausen 17 3 5 9 19 36 8 0 3 5 6 18 9 3 2 4 13 18 -17 14
18 Ingolstadt 17 1 4 12 11 37 8 0 3 5 5 14 9 1 1 7 6 23 -26 7

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The 2. Bundesliga (Zweite Bundesliga) is the second level of German professional football. Like the Bundesliga it has 18 clubs playing a total of 306 fixtures to decide the final league table. The two top teams are promoted while number three has to qualify through a playoff. Two or three teams are relegated through a similar system.