Borussia Monchengladbach vs Werder Bremen

19 January 2021 · Bundesliga · 2020/21 · Referee Martin Petersen

Full time 1 – 0

Half-time: 0–0

Nico Elvedi 66’

Match summary

Borussia Monchengladbach beat Werder Bremen 1-0. It was goalless at half-time.

Nico Elvedi put Borussia Monchengladbach ahead with a header in the 66th minute, set up by László Bénes.

There was little between the sides on chances: Borussia Monchengladbach created 0.65 expected goals (xG) from 11 shots, Werder Bremen 0.82 from 13.

Match stats

11 Shots 11

6 Shots on Target 2

7 Corners 5

2 Yellow Cards 2

0 Red Cards 0

0.65 xG 0.81

0.65 Non-penalty xG 0.81

7 Deep Completions 4

Key events

Borussia Monchengladbach Werder Bremen

Kick-off

Half-time0-0

Nico Elvedi
Assist: László Bénes

1-0

66’

Full-time1-0

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Borussia Monchengladbach

Yann Sommer
Oscar Wendt

Werder Bremen

Jiri Pavlenka
Joshua Sargent

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Borussia Monchengladbach 0.65 xGWerder Bremen 0.82 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Werder Bremen attacking Borussia Monchengladbach attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Yann Sommer	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Stefan Lainer	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Matthias Ginter	DEF	90			1	0.06	0.00	0
Nico Elvedi	DEF	90	1		4	0.33	0.00	0
Oscar Wendt	DEF	74			0	0.00	0.11	1
Christoph Kramer	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Florian Neuhaus	MID	59			2	0.02	0.05	1
Patrick Herrmann	MID	59			0	0.00	0.05	1
Hannes Wolf	MID	85			2	0.14	0.00	0
Jonas Hofmann	MID	90			0	0.00	0.15	2
Alassane Pléa	FWD	74			2	0.10	0.14	2
Lars Stindl	Sub	31			0	0.00	0.00	0
László Bénes	Sub	31		1	0	0.00	0.13	2
Ramy Bensebaini	Sub	16			0	0.00	0.00	0
Denis Zakaria	Sub	16			0	0.00	0.00	0
Tony Jantschke	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Jiri Pavlenka	GK	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Marco Friedl	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Milos Veljkovic	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Ömer Toprak	DEF	56	1	0.05	0.00	0
Theodor Gebre Selassie	MID	90	1	0.02	0.10	3
Felix Agu	MID	90	2	0.34	0.00	0
Maximilian Eggestein	MID	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Kevin Möhwald	MID	82	1	0.04	0.05	1
Jean-Manuel Mbom	MID	82	0	0.00	0.02	1
Romano Schmid	FWD	74	1	0.06	0.00	0
Joshua Sargent	FWD	74	2	0.05	0.32	1
Niklas Moisander	Sub	34	0	0.00	0.00	0
Davie Selke	Sub	16	2	0.06	0.00	0
Milot Rashica	Sub	16	2	0.13	0.00	0
Leonardo Bittencourt	Sub	8	1	0.07	0.00	0
Yuya Osako	Sub	8	0	0.00	0.08	1

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Borussia Monchengladbach win 60% Avg odds 1.57

Draw 23% Avg odds 4.13

Werder Bremen win 17% Avg odds 5.71

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Borussia Monchengladbach D L W W D

Werder Bremen L W L D W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Werder Bremen 0-0 Borussia Monchengladbach, 26 May 20 Next meeting: Werder Bremen 2-4 Borussia Monchengladbach, 22 May 21 All Borussia Monchengladbach vs Werder Bremen meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.