Hosts concentrating on second straight win

By Ben Sully@SullyBen

Werder Bremen will try to say back-to-back wins after they welcome Freiburg to the Weserstadion on Saturday.

Werder Bremen

Bremen are presently sitting in tenth spot after profitable two, drawing two and shedding one in all their 5 league matches. They kicked off the Bundesliga season with consecutive attracts, earlier than they recorded a slender away win over Mainz. Sadly for Bremen, that slender victory was adopted by a heavy 5-0 defeat of their dwelling conflict in opposition to Bayern Munich.

They heading in the direction of one other loss in final Sunday’s assembly with Hoffenheim, conceding three targets within the opening 12 minutes to depart them with a mountain to climb. Nevertheless, the complexion of the competition modified when Stanley Nsoki was proven a straight crimson card within the 18th minute. Julián Malatini rapidly pulled a objective again earlier than Jens Stage scored twice to ship the groups into the break on degree phrases. After the break, Stage netted his third and Bremen’s fourth to finish a exceptional comeback and prolong his facet’s unbeaten away run to 5 league matches.

Ole Werner’s prices will now return to the Weserstadion, the place they’ve performed out a goalless draw with Borussia Dortmund and misplaced 5-0 to Bayern. With Bremen trying to find their first dwelling win of the season, they are able to take confidence from the actual fact they gained 3-1 of their most up-to-date assembly with Freiburg in January.

Group Information

Senne Lynen, Niklas Stark, Justin Njinmah and Milos Veljkovic are all dominated out by damage.

Freiburg

Freiburg head into the weekend in seventh place after profitable three and shedding two of their opening 5 league matches.  After kicking off with a win over Stuttgart, Freiburg went on to lose 2-0 in opposition to Bayern of their second sport of the Bundesliga season. Julian Schuster’s facet bounced again from that defeat to say back-to-back wins over Bochum and Heidenheim. Sadly for Freiburg, they have been swiftly stopped of their tracks by a heavy 3-0 defeat of their latest dwelling assembly with newly-promoted St. Pauli.

After struggling their first dwelling defeat of the season, Freiburg will now head on their travels for the ultimate spherical of fixtures earlier than the worldwide break. The Breisgau-Brasilianer have gained three of their earlier 4 conferences with Bremen. Nevertheless, they’ve gained simply one in all their final six Bundesliga away video games in opposition to Saturday’s opponents. Their solely away victory in that interval happened in April 2023 after they recorded a slender 2-1 victory.

Group Information

The guests are unable to name upon Merlin Röhl, Daniel-Kofi Kyereh, Kenneth Schmidt and Manuel Gulde.