Werder Bremen - Hannover 96

Here we have a match where both teams are more or less out of form. Or in some other words both teams have a lot of problems in the past matches and they did not bring their normal level on the pitch, above all in offensive both are very poor. Therefore it will be the important game that looking all.

After Bremen's wins to begin of the season all spoke that they do better this season but they played only bottom teams with Braunschweig and Augsburg and in both were they the weaker team. Now, a few Rounds later all looks like the same as last season. They have a lot of problems from defense till offense. This means that Coach Dutt has a lot to do to bring his team back on track but it can be a long way as the recent matches were not very impressive. In defensive they made to many mistakes, the midfield is not able to create and in attack they miss almost all strikers that Coach Dutt counts on a system without a striker in Wolfsburg but this was more or less a disaster. With 12 Points they are not far away from the red zone what let them not much air for something. Also with only 9 goals scored in 10 matches shows were the problems lie. At home in 4 matches 4 goals scored but if you take the results you see, vs. Augsburg 1-0, Nürnberg 3-3 and the two others they were not able to score. Today again with some changes because some players are not available. In defensive line Prödl is out and he will be replaced by Lukimya who is not the safest here. Always good for a lot of mistakes. In attack they must replace once again both Di Santos and Pedersen what means that no striker is available. In this case Dutt must search for the right balance here, count he again on a system without a striker or let he one of the youngsters from 2nd team play this part. With Kobylanski or Selke he has some options but are they able to play on such high level in such an important match?

On the other side Hannover 96 is only good at home but away from home they are absolutely harmless and they bring not one toe on the pitch. They lost all their four matches away from home and they were not able to score a single goal in all this four matches. What is incredible with such a good offensive line they have. Nevertheless they must walk on and looking forward to make it better in the upcoming matches. It was also a lot of trouble after the last home matches to Hoffenheim where two players from H96 were sent off. Both are missing here suspended. This makes things not easier for Coach Slomka but he brings a good lineup on the pitch. For suspended defender Marcelo moves Sane back in central defensive but also some other options are possible with Hoffmann and Stindl. Some others like Bittencourt or Schlaudraff for the offensive or Schmiedebach in central midfield. Although H96 miss with Diouf, Ya Konan, Marcelo, Felipe, Pander and Franca a lot they have still a good squad for this match. From match to match they did better away from home, the best was last one in Dortmund where they were very close to get something. I am very confident that they continue this way. And overall it is not possible that they do not score today. This is a match were they start scoring away from home and if we see Bremen's offensive problems at the moment it is not obvious that they can crap the first Point or more here.