Betting preview: Werder Bremen faced with a tough challenge when Borussia Dortmund visits

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Competition: Germany Bundesliga
Competition: Tue 15.December
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Weserstadion Platz 11 (5500 seats)

The visiting Borussia Dortmund side should be favourites in this visit to Werder Bremen, as the away team holds a 8 point advantage from their eleven league games this season.

Insights:
  • Werder Bremen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Borussia Dortmund has the most clean sheets (5) in Bundesliga

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 Werder Bremen and Borussia Dortmund.

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Werder Bremen form and stats

Overall Bundesliga stats at home this season for Werder Bremen are 1-2-2 (wins-draw-losses). Werder has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager F. Kohfeldt and the players.

Werder Bremen faced defeat in their previous match, away at RB Leipzig (0-2). Before that game, the home loss against Stuttgart with the scoreline 1-2.

Werder are traveling soon after this match as the Bundesliga match at Mainz 05 awaits in four days.

The Werder Bremen fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 5 in 5 matches. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 8 goals have been conceded.

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Borussia Dortmund form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most clean sheets (5) in Bundesliga, on their Bundesliga travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat.

The manager L. Favre was unhappy after their last game, a Bundesliga match played at their home ground Signal-Iduna-Park. Borussia suffered a 1-5 loss to Stuttgart (placed 7th). Preceding that game was the away Champions League victory against Zenit with the score of 2-1.

Borussia lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 1-5 beating and focus on this one.

The visitors will be packing their bags again in only three days as another away game awaits: The Bundesliga trip to Union Berlin.

Borussia has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 9 goals from 5 games. Borussia have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Werder Bremen-Borussia Dortmund H2H statistics last ten meetings regardless of arena: Werder Bremen two wins, Borussia Dortmund four wins, four draws. eight of these ten matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

Borussia DortmundE. Håland
E. Håland
10 goals
Werder BremenN. Füllkrug
N. Füllkrug
4 goals
Werder BremenL. Bittencourt
L. Bittencourt
3 goals

Werder Bremen missing players

Borussia Dortmund missing players

Werder Bremen Borussia Dortmund
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
11 5 0 Played P 1 5 11
2 1 0 Won W 1 3 6
5 2 0 Drew D 0 1 1
4 2 0 Lost L 0 1 4
14 5 0 Scored S 2 9 23
19 8 0 Conceded C 0 5 15
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
91% 80% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 80% 91%
36% 40% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 64%
27% 20% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 20% 36%
18% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 27%
82% 80% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 45%
9% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 45%
9% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 20% 9%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.5 2.4 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1 1.6 1.4
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
11.3 12 0 Shots (avg) S ( 20 17.4 14.9
3.6 3.2 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 10 6.4 5.7
35% 31% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 28% 37%
Key stats in Bundesliga this season:
  • Borussia Dortmund has the most clean sheets (5) in Bundesliga
  • Borussia Dortmund has the most scored goals in the second half (19) in Bundesliga
  • Borussia Dortmund haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Werder Bremen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Werder Bremen have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • 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 11 7 3 1 35 17 5 3 2 0 21 7 6 4 1 1 14 10 18 24
2 RB Leipzig 11 7 3 1 23 9 6 6 0 0 16 3 5 1 3 1 7 6 14 24
3 Bayer Leverkusen 10 6 4 0 19 9 4 2 2 0 8 5 6 4 2 0 11 4 10 22
4 Wolfsburg 11 5 6 0 18 11 6 4 2 0 11 6 5 1 4 0 7 5 7 21
5 Borussia Dortmund 11 6 1 4 23 15 6 3 0 3 14 10 5 3 1 1 9 5 8 19
6 Union Berlin 11 4 5 2 23 15 6 2 3 1 15 8 5 2 2 1 8 7 8 17
7 Stuttgart 11 4 5 2 24 17 5 0 3 2 7 10 6 4 2 0 17 7 7 17
8 Borussia M'gladbach 11 4 5 2 20 17 6 2 4 0 9 5 5 2 1 2 11 12 3 17
9 Eintracht Frankfurt 11 2 7 2 16 19 5 1 4 0 6 5 6 1 3 2 10 14 -3 13
10 Hoffenheim 10 3 3 4 18 17 5 2 1 2 11 9 5 1 2 2 7 8 1 12
11 Hertha BSC 11 3 3 5 19 20 5 1 1 3 7 12 6 2 2 2 12 8 -1 12
12 Augsburg 10 3 3 4 12 15 5 2 1 2 6 7 5 1 2 2 6 8 -3 12
13 Werder Bremen 11 2 5 4 14 19 5 1 2 2 5 8 6 1 3 2 9 11 -5 11
14 Freiburg 11 2 5 4 14 22 6 1 3 2 9 11 5 1 2 2 5 11 -8 11
15 Köln 11 2 4 5 13 17 6 0 2 4 8 13 5 2 2 1 5 4 -4 10
16 Arminia Bielefeld 11 2 1 8 8 22 5 2 0 3 5 9 6 0 1 5 3 13 -14 7
17 Mainz 05 11 1 2 8 12 25 6 0 2 4 6 12 5 1 0 4 6 13 -13 5
18 Schalke 04 10 0 3 7 6 31 5 0 2 3 3 10 5 0 1 4 3 21 -25 3

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