This match features two teams living in the basement of the Bundesliga, Werder Bremen holding 13th place and Schalke 04 lying 18th. A good chance for both teams to improve their position.
- Werder Bremen has the most matches under the total-line (12) in Bundesliga
- Schalke 04 has the most conceded goals (48) in Bundesliga
We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!
Werder Bremen form and stats
Werder Bremen's struggle is real here at Weserstadion Platz 11 with only 8 points collected from 8 Bundesliga games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 2-2-4.
Werder Bremen enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Hertha BSC's place. The match ended 4-1 with Leonardo Bittencourt, Josh Sargent, Davie Selke and Ömer Toprak scoring. Prior to that, an away loss at Borussia M'gladbach.
Jiří Pavlenka loved the game against Hertha BSC. With a stunning nine saves the goalkeeper played a huge part in the 4-1 victory.
The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Werder Bremen have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found seven games) they have won five times, drawn one and lost one.
Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the DFB Pokal game versus Greuther Furth in only three days. This game is also played here at Weserstadion Platz 11.
Werder Bremen are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 8 goals in 8 games. Werder have conceded 12 from these games.
Schalke 04 form and stats
There's been little loot from Schalke 04's travels as they have only collected 2 points from 8 away games in the Bundesliga. Schalke 04, who have the most conceded goals (48) in Bundesliga, only have 0 wins to counter their 6 defeats and 2 draws. It's a growing despair in Schalke 04 as they have recorded three consecutive losses. Schalke 04 seem to be suffering from homesickness with two consecutive losses away. Third time lucky?
The manager C. Gross was unhappy after their last game, a Bundesliga match played at their home ground VELTINS-Arena. Schalke 04 suffered a 0-4 loss to Bayern München (placed 1st). A loss against Köln was the result prior to that, in a home game.
Schalke lost the plot completely in their previous game, as mentioned above. They need to recover quickly from that 0-4 beating and focus on this one. Schalke goalkeeper Ralf Fährmann had a great day against Bayern München, but despite making nine saves the loss could not be avoided.
Schalke are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is zero wins, three draws and four defeats. From a total of seven matches.
The schedule is very tough for Schalke now as they have to travel again shortly after this match. A DFB Pokal game at Wolfsburg is waiting in only four days.
The attacking power of Schalke when travelling is not overwhelming with 6 goals scored from 8 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. There are big problems for the Schalke defense as they have conceded 29 goals in 8 away games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Schalke 04 - Werder 1-3. Head-to-head totals (for the last ten meetings): Werder won seven games, zero matches ended with a draw and Schalke 04 has three wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: seven / threeTop Goalscorers
  M. Hoppe 5 goals |   L. Bittencourt 4 goals |  N. Füllkrug 4 goals |
Werder Bremen missing players
Schalke 04 missing players
| Werder Bremen | Schalke 04 | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 18 | 8 | 3 | Played | P | 2 | 8 | 18 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | 2 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 23 | 8 | 3 | Scored | S | 2 | 6 | 14 |
| 26 | 12 | 5 | Conceded | C | 5 | 29 | 48 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 83% | 88% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 100% | 94% |
| 33% | 38% | 33% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 100% | 72% |
| 22% | 12% | 33% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 75% | 50% |
| 17% | 12% | 33% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 25% | 11% |
| 67% | 62% | 67% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 44% |
| 17% | 25% | 33% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 0% | 6% |
| 17% | 12% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 50% | 50% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.3 | 2.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.5 | 2.1 | 2.4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10.6 | 11.2 | 14.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 14.5 | 9.4 | 10.6 |
| 3.4 | 3 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 2 | 3.1 |
| 37% | 33% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 38% | 25% |
- All of Schalke 04's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
- Schalke 04 has the fewest clean sheets (0) away in Bundesliga
- Schalke 04 has the fewest points (2) away in Bundesliga
- Schalke 04 has the most conceded goals (29) away in Bundesliga
- Schalke 04 has the most conceded goals (48) in Bundesliga
- Schalke 04 has the most conceded goals in the first half (20) in Bundesliga
- Schalke 04 has the most conceded goals in the second half (28) in Bundesliga
- Schalke 04 has the the worst goal difference (-23) away in Bundesliga
- Schalke 04 has the the worst goal difference (-34) in Bundesliga
- Schalke 04 have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Schalke 04 have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
- Schalke 04 have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Schalke 04 have yet to win a game away.
- Schalke 04 haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Schalke 04 is in the worst form (1-0-5)
- Werder Bremen has the most matches under the total-line (12) in Bundesliga
- Werder Bremen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- 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 | 18 | 13 | 3 | 2 | 53 | 25 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 30 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 28 | 42 |
| 2 | RB Leipzig | 18 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 31 | 17 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 14 | 35 |
| 3 | Bayer Leverkusen | 18 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 32 | 18 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 7 | 14 | 32 |
| 4 | Wolfsburg | 18 | 8 | 8 | 2 | 27 | 19 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 8 | 32 |
| 5 | Borussia M'gladbach | 18 | 8 | 7 | 3 | 35 | 28 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 17 | 17 | 7 | 31 |
| 6 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 18 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 35 | 27 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 0 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 17 | 8 | 30 |
| 7 | Borussia Dortmund | 18 | 9 | 2 | 7 | 35 | 26 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 9 | 29 |
| 8 | Union Berlin | 18 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 33 | 23 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 28 |
| 9 | Freiburg | 18 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 33 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 15 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 14 | 4 | 27 |
| 10 | Stuttgart | 18 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 33 | 29 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 11 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 14 | 4 | 22 |
| 11 | Hoffenheim | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 28 | 30 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 17 | -2 | 22 |
| 12 | Augsburg | 18 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 19 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | -8 | 22 |
| 13 | Werder Bremen | 18 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 23 | 26 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 12 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 14 | -3 | 21 |
| 14 | Hertha BSC | 18 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 24 | 32 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 13 | 13 | -8 | 17 |
| 15 | Arminia Bielefeld | 18 | 5 | 2 | 11 | 14 | 29 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 13 | -15 | 17 |
| 16 | Köln | 18 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 31 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 18 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -16 | 15 |
| 17 | Mainz 05 | 18 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 18 | 38 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 19 | -20 | 10 |
| 18 | Schalke 04 | 18 | 1 | 4 | 13 | 14 | 48 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 29 | -34 | 7 |