This match features two teams living in the basement of the Bundesliga, Köln holding 15th place and Werder Bremen lying 16th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Köln and Werder Bremen.
Köln form and stats
The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Bundesliga this season. Köln have only managed 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses from their games here at RheinEnergieStadion.
Köln are returning here after visiting Eintracht Frankfurt in a Bundesliga game and winning with a 4-2 scoreline. Before that, Köln had a home game versus Bayer Leverkusen which ended with a victory 2-0.
The game against Eintracht Frankfurt had lots of late drama as Köln came back from being down 0-2 and finally secured all three points through I. Jakobs's goal in the 90th minute.
This is expected to be a close game, with Köln perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Köln as a small favourite), we find four games. Köln has won 0 of these, drawn 0 and lost 4.
Köln are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 8 goals in 7 games. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Köln defense is not exactly impregnable. 11 goals conceded from 7 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.
Werder Bremen form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most conceded goals (40) in Bundesliga, on their Bundesliga travels is 2 wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats. Three has not been a lucky number for Werder Bremen as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Wolfsburg match.
This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Bundesliga home defeat versus Mainz 05 with 0-5 on the scoreboard. It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Bayern München wasn't a success with a 1-6 loss.
Werder Bremen lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-5 beating and focus on this one.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found eight similar matches played by Werder Bremen in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Werder Bremen, 1 draw and 2 defeats.
Werder Bremen are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 15 times in 8 away games so far. People interested in "over 2,5 goals" betting will like to know that Werder Bremen concede an average of more than 2,5 goals per away match all on their own.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Köln 3 wins, 5 draws and Werder Bremen 2 victories. As for goals, 2 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 8 games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  M. Rashica 7 goals |  Y. Ōsako 4 goals |   S. Terodde 3 goals |
Köln missing players
Werder Bremen missing players
| Köln | Werder Bremen | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 16 | 7 | 2 | Played | P | 0 | 8 | 16 |
| 4 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 2 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 8 |
| 18 | 8 | 3 | Scored | S | 0 | 15 | 23 |
| 32 | 11 | 4 | Conceded | C | 0 | 21 | 40 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 0% | 100% | 100% |
| 94% | 86% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 100% | 94% |
| 62% | 57% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 100% | 88% |
| 38% | 29% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 88% | 69% |
| 12% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 38% | 31% |
| 56% | 43% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 100% | 81% |
| 12% | 29% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 31% | 29% | 50% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 0% | 19% |
| 5.6 | 5.3 | 7 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 0 | 3.4 | 5.2 |
| 6.4 | 6.7 | 6.5 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 0 | 7.4 | 5.8 |
| 2.7 | 2.7 | 0.5 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 0 | 2.6 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 200 | 86 | 24 | Total Shots | T S | 0 | 98 | 226 |
| 68 | 30 | 9 | Shots on Target | S O | 0 | 37 | 82 |
| 26% | 27% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 0% | 41% | 28% |
- All of Werder Bremen's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Köln has the fewest scored goals in the first half (6)
- Köln haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Werder Bremen has the fewest clean sheets (0)
- Werder Bremen has the most conceded goals (40)
- Werder Bremen has the most conceded goals in the first half (19)
- Werder Bremen has the most dropped points from leading position (16)
- Werder Bremen have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
- Werder Bremen have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Werder Bremen have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Werder Bremen have scored in all their away matches so far.
- Werder Bremen have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- 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 | RB Leipzig | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 45 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 25 | 11 | 26 | 34 |
| 2 | Borussia M'gladbach | 16 | 11 | 1 | 4 | 33 | 18 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 23 | 11 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 7 | 15 | 34 |
| 3 | Bayern München | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 44 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 26 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 22 | 30 |
| 4 | Borussia Dortmund | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 40 | 22 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 26 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 30 |
| 5 | Schalke 04 | 16 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 27 | 19 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 15 | 10 | 8 | 29 |
| 6 | Freiburg | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 25 | 21 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 4 | 25 |
| 7 | Bayer Leverkusen | 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 22 | 21 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 25 |
| 8 | Wolfsburg | 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 16 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 24 |
| 9 | Hoffenheim | 16 | 7 | 3 | 6 | 23 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 9 | -4 | 24 |
| 10 | Augsburg | 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 27 | 28 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 17 | -1 | 23 |
| 11 | Union Berlin | 16 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 19 | 22 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 | 11 | -3 | 20 |
| 12 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 26 | 27 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 19 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 7 | 13 | -1 | 18 |
| 13 | Hertha BSC | 16 | 5 | 3 | 8 | 22 | 29 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 14 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 15 | -7 | 18 |
| 14 | Mainz 05 | 16 | 6 | 0 | 10 | 25 | 38 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 14 | 9 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 24 | -13 | 18 |
| 15 | Köln | 16 | 4 | 2 | 10 | 18 | 32 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 21 | -14 | 14 |
| 16 | Werder Bremen | 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 23 | 40 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 21 | -17 | 14 |
| 17 | Fortuna Düsseldorf | 16 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 16 | 35 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 13 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 22 | -19 | 12 |
| 18 | Paderborn | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 18 | 35 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 10 | 18 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | 17 | -17 | 9 |