Werder Bremen – FC Koln Prediction & Picks (12.03.2018)

On Monday, starting at 19:30, the Werder Bremen – Cologne match will be played out of the 26th round of the Bundesliga. Although Bremen goes on with the first chance, we think we will be seeing a much more balanced match!

Lu, 19:30: Werder Bremen – Cologne

Bremen succeeded in the positive results lately to climb 14th, departing 2 points from Mainz, the first team in the “crepuscular area”. In the last four stages of the Bundesliga they lost only once, with Freiburg, at the limit, score 1-0. Otherwise, they have managed a somewhat unsuccessful draw with Monchengladbach and two “six points” victories. Bremen beat 3-1 in front of Wolfsburg, then to beat the Hamburg team, which seems to have been condemned to relegation for the first time in history. However, this time things will not be so easy. For this game, we expect Werder coach Florian Kohfeldt to give up the 3-backed team and move to a 4-3-3 to add an attacker and a defending player instead of betting on the superiority of the middle of the field, as before. The team has no bothering problems, with Bartels and Zetter being easily replaced.

If in the match with Leipzig “tapi” have managed to impose, in the same way will like to do this time. Cologne is far from being ingrained, if we relate to the value of the team and especially to their game in the past two months. If in the past season they managed to finish on a European Cup, this year was terribly weak. However, they scored in each of the last 8 stages and is expected to do so on Monday. The Golaver team, if we look only at the last 10 matches in the Bundesliga, is a highly balanced 15-15. For their part, they have no batch problems, being only Guirassy and Clemens, two substitutable players. In the tour I saw a 0-0 sec, but this time we were expecting the show. Interestingly, the “tapi” did not miss a duel in the last 5 with Werder Bremen. Besides, Koziello will most likely be the title, with the German press suggesting that Jojic will remain on the bench, which we consider to be good news, Koziello being a valuable player with a good vision of the game.

Probable teams:

Bremen: Pavlenka – Selassie, Velikovic, Moisander, Augustinsson – Eggestein, Bargfrede, Delaney – Johansson, Kruse, Kainz.

Cologne: Horn – Sorensen, Mere, Heintz – Risse, Koziello, Hoger, Hector – Bittencourt – Pizzaro Terodde.

Finally, we consider this game to be quite spectacular, but the goals were not only expected from the hosts. Although the difference in value is clearly immense in favor of the Bavarians, we do not exclude the possibility of a decent match made by the guests, the team that scored so little that a Saturday’s goal would “wash their sins”.