Werder Bremen vs Hannover 96 Betting Tips and Predictions

Werder Bremen pulled an impressive 4-1 win over Bayer Leverkusen mid-week in the Bundesliga, which pulled them 1 point up out of the relegation play off positon to 15th place. Bremen legend Claudio Pizarro, who has had 3 spells at the club from 1999-2001, 2008-2012 and since the start of the 2015/2016 Bundesliga season, scored his 97th, 98th and 99th goal for the club with a hat-trick in this match against Leverkusen (also making him the oldest player to ever score a hat-trick in Bundesliga history at 37 years old). He will be looking to score his 100th goal for Bremen against bottom of the table Hannover 96.

Hannover 96 may have given themselves a slither of false hope from relegation survival when they beat VfB Stuttgart away last Saturday. Their mid-week home match to Lower Saxony rivals Wolfsburg clearly brought Hannover back to reality, with Hannover 96 losing 4-0 at home. With relegation teams Hoffenheim and Bremen both winning their mid-week matches, Hannover 96 are now 7 points away from safety with only 8 matches remaining this season.

Werder Bremen haven’t won any of their last 9 games at home (a club record), but they are undefeated against Hannover 96 in the last 12 home games (8 wins and 4 draws) which is longer than against any other club. More devastatingly, Hannover 96 have only won once out of 27 meetings between the 2 clubs when playing in Bremen. With Hannover 96 having conceded a goal in 92% of matches away from home, and conceding the opening goal 71% of the time this feels like the perfect fixture for Werder Bremen to turn around their poor home form and condemn Hannover 96 to almost certain relegation. Bremen have, however, failed to keep a clean sheet in every single one of their 24 Bundesliga matches this season, and so both teams to score and a Werder Bremen win of 2-1 at 7/1 seems good value for this match.

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