Football preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Eintracht Frankfurt take on Werder Bremen

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Competition: Germany Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 18.February
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Deutsche Bank Park

The hosts, Eintracht Frankfurt, should be the favourites in this game, but Werder Bremen have proven both competence and heroism. Read more about the game!

Insights:
  • Eintracht Frankfurt have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • All of Werder Bremen's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.

This promises to be an entertaining match with lots of fun and excitement as both squads are well rested since they last played a game. Let's get started!

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Eintracht Frankfurt form and stats

The story so far in the Bundesliga for Eintracht Frankfurt at their home stadium (Deutsche Bank Park) is 6 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats. Eintracht Frankfurt are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

Eintracht lost their last game at FC Köln (placed 11th) after a 0-3 scoreline. Until that game this club had gone seven consecutive league matches without a loss. Ndicka was "man of the match" with a rating of 7.15 out of 10. The defender Ndicka won 6 of 9 duels.

Ahead of that result, a home victory against Darmstadt 98 in the DFB Pokal.

Lots of goals and action? Nobody knows what will happen in this one, but we do know that 9 of the 12 most recent league games with this side has seen three goals or more.

There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Eintracht Frankfurt, as the Champions League home game vs Napoli is only three days away.

With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (24 in 10 games), Eintracht's attacking play is working. 13 goals have been conceded.

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Werder Bremen form and stats

4-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Werder Bremen in their Bundesliga matches away.

The manager Werner was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Weserstadion. Werder Bremen suffered a 0-2 loss to Borussia Dortmund (placed 3rd). Werder Bremen goalkeeper Pavlenka was glad for a brilliant day at work versus Borussia Dortmund, but even with making seven saves the loss could not be avoided.

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at VfB Stuttgart.

Werder has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 14 goals from 9 games. For Werder Bremen, more than two goals on average per game end up in their own net. It's worth mentioning that 13 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The teams involved played each other before this campaign: Werder Bremen - Eintracht Frankfurt 3-4. Data for the last ten meetings featuring these two participants are: four wins for Eintracht Frankfurt, three draws and three wins for Werder Bremen. Over 2,5 goals: eight times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

Werder BremenN. Füllkrug
N. Füllkrug
13 goals
Eintracht FrankfurtR. Kolo Muani
R. Kolo Muani
9 goals
EintrachtD. Kamada
D. Kamada
7 goals

Eintracht Frankfurt missing players

Werder Bremen missing players

Eintracht Frankfurt Werder Bremen
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 10 3 Played P 3 9 20
10 6 1 Won W 1 4 8
5 1 1 Drew D 0 2 3
5 3 1 Lost L 2 3 9
40 24 6 Scored S 4 14 31
29 13 3 Conceded C 10 21 39
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
95% 90% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 90%
65% 70% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 56% 60%
35% 40% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 44% 35%
20% 30% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 33% 25%
65% 50% 67% BTTS BTTS 67% 67% 65%
20% 40% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 15%
15% 10% 33% Failed to Score F T 33% 11% 20%
 
5.2 5.5 7.3 Corners for (avg) C F 3.7 3.8 3.4
4.7 4.4 5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 5.3 5.3
1.6 1.6 0.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 2 1.9
1 1 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
12.2 13.7 14.3 Shots (avg) S ( 10.3 11.6 11.5
4.5 5.1 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 4.2 4.6
44% 47% 55% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 37% 34%
 
11.5 11.4 6 Shots against (avg) S A 17 17.2 15.3
3.9 3.4 2.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 6.6 6
Key stats in Bundesliga this season:
  • All of Werder Bremen's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Eintracht Frankfurt have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Eintracht Frankfurt haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Werder Bremen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Bayern München 20 12 7 1 59 18 10 6 4 0 31 8 10 6 3 1 28 10 41 43
2 FC Union Berlin 20 13 3 4 35 24 9 7 2 0 19 8 11 6 1 4 16 16 11 42
3 Borussia Dortmund 20 13 1 6 40 26 9 7 1 1 24 9 11 6 0 5 16 17 14 40
4 Freiburg 20 11 4 5 32 31 10 7 2 1 18 8 10 4 2 4 14 23 1 37
5 RB Leipzig 20 10 6 4 40 26 10 7 2 1 23 9 10 3 4 3 17 17 14 36
6 Eintracht Frankfurt 20 10 5 5 40 29 10 6 1 3 24 13 10 4 4 2 16 16 11 35
7 Wolfsburg 20 8 6 6 38 26 9 4 3 2 23 14 11 4 3 4 15 12 12 30
8 Bayer Leverkusen 20 8 3 9 33 32 10 4 2 4 19 13 10 4 1 5 14 19 1 27
9 Werder Bremen 20 8 3 9 31 39 11 4 1 6 17 18 9 4 2 3 14 21 -8 27
10 Borussia M'gladbach 20 7 5 8 35 33 10 6 1 3 22 13 10 1 4 5 13 20 2 26
11 FC Köln 20 6 8 6 32 31 10 5 3 2 21 10 10 1 5 4 11 21 1 26
12 Mainz 05 20 7 5 8 30 32 10 3 4 3 17 14 10 4 1 5 13 18 -2 26
13 Augsburg 20 6 3 11 25 36 10 3 2 5 9 15 10 3 1 6 16 21 -11 21
14 Hoffenheim 20 5 4 11 29 39 11 3 2 6 15 21 9 2 2 5 14 18 -10 19
15 Bochum 20 6 1 13 24 49 9 5 1 3 17 17 11 1 0 10 7 32 -25 19
16 Hertha BSC 20 4 5 11 24 36 11 3 4 4 16 19 9 1 1 7 8 17 -12 17
17 VfB Stuttgart 20 3 7 10 23 36 10 3 3 4 12 13 10 0 4 6 11 23 -13 16
18 Schalke 04 20 2 6 12 14 41 11 2 3 6 10 25 9 0 3 6 4 16 -27 12

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