Werder Bremen vs Cologne Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Werder Bremen

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Werder Bremen will be hoping for a better result after a 4-2 Bundesliga 1 losing effort in their last game against Heidenheim.

In that game, Werder Bremen had 59% possession and 11 shots at goal with 4 on target. For Werder Bremen, the scorers were Marvin Ducksch (49') and Mitchell Weiser (64'). Heidenheim got 18 attempts at goal with 5 on target. Tim Kleindienst (5'), Eren Sami Dinkçi (44', 68') and Jan-Niklas Beste (76') scored for Heidenheim.

Matches featuring Werder Bremen have proved to be entertaining affairs recently with high scoring being a common characteristic. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum of 21 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.5 goals per game) with 8 of these coming from Werder Bremen.

Coming into this contest, Werder Bremen have not emerged victorious against Cologne in their previous 4 matches in the league.

Cologne

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After suffering a loss in their previous game against Hoffenheim in Bundesliga 1 competition, Cologne will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that match, Cologne had 56% possession and 18 attempts at goal with 7 of them on target. The scorer for Cologne was Davie Selke (61'). 1899 Hoffenheim got 13 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. Andrej Kramarić (1'), Florian Grillitsch (28') and Maximilian Beier (52') scored for Hoffenheim.

Cologne have seen success in front of goal leading up to this encounter, having scored 7 goals in their last 6 matches. While their manager Steffen Baumgart will no doubt take that as a positive sign, Cologne have been somewhat leaky at the back, having also been scored against in 6 of those same matches. Such a trend won’t necessarily be continued into this game, though.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Cologne:

• are winless against Werder Bremen when they've played them away from home in the last 6 league games. Not good.
• haven't been defeated by Werder Bremen when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 matches in the league.
• are without a win away from home in their last 3 league games.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their prior head to head clashes dating back to 21/12/2019 shows us that Werder Bremen have won 1 of them & Cologne 2, with the number of drawn matches being 3.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 22 in all which averages out at 3.67 goals per meeting.

The previous league contest between these sides was Bundesliga 1 match day 33 on 20/05/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Werder Bremen 1-1 Cologne.

In that game, Werder Bremen managed 44% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer was Romano Schmid (73').

Cologne had 13 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Steffen Tigges (36') scored.

The referee was Robert Hartmann.

📋 Team News: Werder Bremen

The Werder Bremen manager Ole Werner will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns at all before this clash owing to a completely healthy squad ready to go.

We are thinking that Werder could use a 3-5-2 formation this time featuring Jiri Pavlenka, Amos Pieper, Niklas Stark, Marco Friedl, Mitchell Weiser, Romano Schmid, Christian Gross, Jens Stage, Anthony Jung, Dawid Kownacki and Marvin Ducksch.

📋 Team News: Cologne

Due to a completely healthy group available to choose from, the Cologne manager Steffen Baumgart doesn’t have any fitness concerns to speak of before this clash.

There’s a good chance that Köln might utilise a 4-2-3-1 system, starting Marvin Schwaebe, Benno Schmitz, Timo Huebers, Julian Chabot, Leart Paqarada, Dejan Ljubicic, Denis Huseinbasic, G. Waldschmidt, Florian Kainz, Linton Maina and Davie Selke.

🔮 Prediction

We believe that Cologne and Werder Bremen may well both score at least one goal each although picking a clear a winner isn’t easy.

A close call, and we think a draw is quite likely - as are goals. Therefore, we predict a high-scoring affair with a score draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Renata Leite, 01:01 19/09/2023