Werder Bremen
Augsburg
Match summary
Werder Bremen came back from 2 goals down to win 3-2 at home to Augsburg, with the winner arriving in stoppage time. Augsburg led 1-0 at half-time.
In the first half, Robin Fellhauer put Augsburg ahead in the 18th minute, set up by Fabian Rieder. In the second half, Calvin Brackelmann made it 0-2 with a header in the 58th minute, set up by Alexis Claude Maurice, Marco Grüll pulled one back to make it 1-2 in the 66th minute, set up by Chuki, Niclas Füllkrug equalised in the 86th minute, and Mitchell Weiser won it in stoppage time, set up by Marco Grüll.
The chances backed that up: Werder Bremen created 2.41 expected goals (xG) from 20 shots to Augsburg's 0.74 from 6.
Werder Bremen secured a thrilling 3-2 victory against Augsburg on matchday four of the Bundesliga after dominating the overall performance and controlling the match territory. The home side registered twenty shots to their opponents six, and recorded eleven shots on target compared to just four for the visitors. Werder Bremen also enjoyed sixty-six percent possession, completed six hundred and eighty-two passes at an accuracy of eighty-eight percent, and generated an expected goals total of 2.41 against 0.74. Both teams received two yellow cards during a competitive fixture that saw thirty-six dangerous attacks from the hosts and fifteen from the away team.
The event timeline began with a yellow card for Han-Noah Massengo in the fifth minute before Robin Fellhauer opened the scoring for Augsburg with a right footed shot in the eighteenth minute, establishing a 0-1 half-time lead. Calvin Brackelmann doubled the visitors advantage with a header in the fifty-eighth minute. Werder Bremen mounted a comeback when Marco Grüll scored with a right footed shot in the sixty-sixth minute. Niclas Füllkrug equalised with a right footed shot in the eighty-sixth minute, and Mitchell Weiser completed the turnaround by scoring with a left footed shot in the third minute of added time.
