Leverkusen
He is in second place in the Bundesliga, with 35 points, being equal to third place Leipzig and 18 points away from Bayern Munich.
He has a good period in the championship, having 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat in the last 5 rounds.
He comes after a draw, on the Freiburg team’s 0-0 draw, but he did not score a goal despite the 7 yellow cards cashed by the host team.
In the second half of the match, Borussia Monchengladbach scored 1-0, the only goal of the match coming in from Leon Bailey.
The probable team for this match, 4-2-3-1 game system: Leno; L. Bender, Tah, S. Bender, Wendell; Kohr, Aranguiz; Brandt, Havertz, Bailey; Volland.
Werder Bremen
It occupies the 15th position in the Bundesliga, the first over the relegable places or the barrage, with 20 points, being equal to the 16th position in Mainz.
He crosses a more difficult time, having only one victory, three draws and a defeat in the last 5 stages of the championship.
He comes after a surprising win on the team’s 5th place, Schalke, 2: 1, where the hosts opened the score in the first half by Konoplyanka, the guests managed to return the score in the second half, with Kruse and Junuzovic striker, taking advantage of the host’s defender Nastasic’s elimination from the 70th minute of the meeting.
In the home, Freiburg scored 3: 2 in a game where the host team was always in charge, 2: 1 and 3: 1 respectively, the goals of the hosts being scored by Belfodil, Kainz and Bargfrede .
The probable team for this match, game system 4-3-2-1: Pavlenka; Veljkovic, Langkamp, Moisander, Gebre Selassie; Delaney, Augustinsson, M. Eggestein; Gondorf, Junuzovic; Kruse.
Direct meetings
Werder Bremen leads surprisingly in the direct meetings of the last of all competitions, with 3 wins and a draw in the previous 5 games, a cup win and two in the championship, while Bayer once imposed, in the tour of this championship, on home ground score 1: 0.
The two teams also met in the 2015/2016 edition of the German Cup, still in the quarter, Werder managed to impose on the Bay Arena with a 3: 1 score.
My tip: Leverkusen vs Werder Bremen
I’m going to rely on the balance that existed between the two teams in the previous 3 championship meetings, when both teams managed to win a match at home, 2: 1 for Werder, 1: 0 Bayer, one Match 1: 1, games in which they scored under 3.5 goals.
Leverkusen comes after 5 home games in which he managed to score just 7 goals, which means an average of 1.4 goals per game, while Werder Bremen comes after 5 away games in which he scored only 6 goals, the one what means an average of 1.2 goals per game.
In the match of the current championship, played just over 2 months ago, Leverkusen was forced to the limit with a score of 1: 0, the only goal scored by Argentine striker Lucas Alario in the 11th minute of the match.
