Werder Bremen vs. SC Freiburg – Bundesliga Preview
Werder Bremen will play host to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/SC-Freiburg-c40462 on Saturday, August 20, at Weserstadion. Both sides will be looking to get back to winning ways having slumped to defeats in their last games.
The River Islanders will certainly have the home ground advantage as Freiburg would have to work extremely hard in order to overrun the in-form hosts.
Werder Bremen
Thomas Schaaf’s side will enter the game as favourites. Despite losing their last game to Bayer Leverkusen, the Green-Whites will be oozing with confidence against Breisgau-Brasilianer.
The manager would want his side to bring the winning habit back to the squad in order to keep the title hopes alive. Bremen will also have the home ground advantage; 42,000 fans to back them up.
It seems highly unlikely that the hosts will surrender to the visitors. Bremen are currently seventh on the league table with three points from two games. The Green-Whites have scored two goals so far compared to the one that they have conceded.
Schaaf’s side will be looking to increase their goals tally when they take on Freiburg later this evening.
SC Freiburg
Marcus Sorg’s side will go into the game as definite underdogs. Breisgau-Brasilianer would ideally want to come out as winners having suffered defeat in their last game to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/1-FSV-Mainz-05-c38166 05.
Freiburg will have their work cut out playing away from home and are certain to get tested by the attacking strength of the hosts. The manager will wish for a better result than anticipated by the majority of pundits.
Sorg’s men have scored three times so far compared to the four that they have conceded. Schaaf’s side drew their last away game to FC Augsburg on the opening week and the manager would hope for a similar result at the least.
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Werder Bremen
The home side are expected to go in with a 5-3-2 formation. Markus Rosenberg and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Clemens-Fritz-c9348 will be in the centre of defence, while
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Tim-Wiese-c35108 will guard the home side’s net.
SC Freiburg
The visitors will field in a 4-2-3-1 formation with Papiss Demba Cisse playing upfront as a lone striker. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Oliver-Baumann-c28480 will
start in goal for the Breisgau-Brasilianer.
Players to Watch
The home team will again look up to the likes of Rosenberg to hand them an early advantage. The striker failed to make any impact against Leverkusen last weekend but scored a brace in Bremen’s first game against FC Kaiserslautern. The Swede will again be
expected to come good later this evening.
Freiburg will want the Senegalese Cisse to shine against the River Islanders. The striker opened his account for this season in the opening week draw against Augsburg and then scored in his team’s 2-1 loss to Mainz the following weekend. The http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Senegal-c3001 international
will be expected to earn his side their first win of this year’s campaign.
Prediction
Bremen will definitely be the favourites going into the game later this evening. The hosts are tipped to get better of the opposition, who at the moment are looking just a one man team. The Green-Whites could easily emerge out as 3-1 winners over Marcus
Sorg’s side.
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