FC Carl Zeiss Jena vs Werder Bremen Prediction & Betting Tips

Saturday’s DFB-Pokal schedule brings us FC Carl Zeiss Jena vs Werder Bremen.

View all FC Carl Zeiss Jena v Werder Bremen tips, stats and our pre-match poll below - along with the latest match odds.

📏 Form Guide

FC Carl Zeiss Jena LLLLDW

FC Carl Zeiss Jena, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 1-0 3rd Liga success vs Sonnenhof Großaspach.

The only name on the scoresheet from FC Carl Zeiss Jena was Hammann (90').

It has been all too rare in recent times where FC Carl Zeiss Jena have managed to hold out for a full 90 minutes. In fact, Jena have been scored against in 5 of their previous 6 games, letting in 16 goals along the way. We will just have to see whether or not that trend will be sustained into this next match.

Werder Bremen WLLWDD ⚖

In their previous fixture, Werder Bremen drew 2-2 in the Bundesliga 1 - Play-offs match with Heidenheim.

In that match, Werder Bremen had 41% possession and 19 shots at goal with 9 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Werder Bremen was Ludwig Augustinsson (94'). 1. FC Heidenheim had 10 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Norman Theuerkauf (3' Own goal) and Tim Kleindienst (85', 98') scored for Heidenheim.

Proving their bias toward action-packed encounters, we’ve had goals 22 times in the prior six games in which Werder Bremen have sent out their troops, making it a mean average of 3.67 goals for each fixture. Opposition teams have got 8 of those goals.

📋 Team News: FC Carl Zeiss Jena

FC Carl Zeiss Jena manager René Klingbeil will be grateful not to have any fitness worries whatsoever before this clash owing to a fully healthy group to choose from.

🗞️ Team News: Werder Bremen

Due to a mostly available squad, there is only a single fitness problem for the Werder Bremen gaffer Florian Kohfeldt to contend with. Davy Klaassen (Knee Injury) won’t be in action.

⚡ Prediction

It looks to us that Werder Bremen have it within them to have the majority of the possession and should turn some of their chances into goals.

Conversely, FC Carl Zeiss Jena won’t find it easy to make a breakthrough but we do think that it’s more than likely that they will be converting at least once here.

Therefore, we are anticipating a pretty comfortable 1-3 margin for Werder Bremen when the full-time whistle blows.

Peter Guest, 23:11 07/09/2020