Werder Bremen vs Borussia Monchengladbach

15 March 2025 · Bundesliga · 2024/25 · Referee Timo Gerach

Full time 2 – 4

Half-time: 2–2

Romano Schmid 38’
André Silva 45+1’ (pen)

Alassane Pléa 7’ (pen), 28’, 47’
Tim Kleindienst 81’

Match summary

Borussia Monchengladbach beat Werder Bremen 4-2 on the road. It was 2-2 at half-time.

In the first half, Alassane Pléa put Borussia Monchengladbach ahead from the penalty spot in the 7th minute, Pléa made it 0-2 in the 28th minute, Romano Schmid pulled one back to make it 1-2 with a direct free kick in the 38th minute, and André Silva equalised from the penalty spot in first-half stoppage time. In the second half, Pléa put Borussia Monchengladbach back in front in the 47th minute, set up by Robin Hack and Tim Kleindienst made it 2-4 in the 81st minute, set up by Alassane Pléa.

Werder Bremen can feel hard done by, creating 3.15 expected goals (xG) from 23 shots to Borussia Monchengladbach's 2.32 from 13. Borussia Monchengladbach had a player sent off.

Match stats

23 Shots 13

2 Shots on Target 7

4 Corners 1

1 Yellow Cards 2

0 Red Cards 1

2.98 xG 2.32

2.23 Non-penalty xG 1.56

16 Deep Completions 7

Key events

Werder Bremen Borussia Monchengladbach

Kick-off

7’

Alassane Pléa
Penalty

0-1

28’

Alassane Pléa

0-2

Romano Schmid

1-2

38’

André Silva
Penalty

2-2

45+1’

Half-time2-2

47’

Alassane Pléa
Assist: Robin Hack

2-3

81’

Tim Kleindienst
Assist: Alassane Pléa

2-4

Full-time2-4

Bookings

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

Werder Bremen

Senne Lynen

Borussia Monchengladbach

Tim Kleindienst

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.

Werder Bremen 3.15 xGBorussia Monchengladbach 2.32 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Borussia Monchengladbach attacking Werder Bremen attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Michael Zetterer	GK	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Amos Pieper	DEF	90		0	0.00	0.00	0
Anthony Jung	DEF	90		1	0.02	0.00	0
Milos Veljkovic	DEF	85		0	0.00	0.00	0
Issa Kabore	MID	85		3	0.21	0.48	2
Felix Agu	MID	90		1	0.35	0.50	3
Romano Schmid	MID	90	1	3	0.15	0.23	5
Jens Stage	MID	90		3	0.22	0.06	2
Senne Lynen	MID	70		1	0.02	0.00	0
Oliver Burke	FWD	85		4	0.94	0.35	1
André Silva	FWD	70	1	1	0.76	0.49	3
Justin Njinmah	Sub	20		3	0.16	0.00	0
Leonardo Bittencourt	Sub	20		1	0.02	0.05	1
Marco Friedl	Sub	5		0	0.00	0.00	0
Keke Maximilian Topp	Sub	5		1	0.04	0.04	1
Marvin Ducksch	Sub	5		1	0.26	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Jonas Omlin	GK	74			0	0.00	0.00	0
Joe Scally	DEF	90			1	0.02	0.08	1
Ko Itakura	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Nico Elvedi	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Lukas Ullrich	DEF	72			0	0.00	0.00	0
Philipp Sander	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Julian Weigl	MID	90			1	0.03	0.00	0
Nathan N'Goumou Minpol	MID	72			4	0.41	0.04	1
Alassane Pléa	MID	87	3	1	4	1.19	0.64	2
Robin Hack	MID	90		1	1	0.03	0.63	4
Tim Kleindienst	FWD	90	1		2	0.64	0.12	2
Tomás Cvancara	Sub	18			0	0.00	0.00	0
Luca Netz	Sub	18			0	0.00	0.00	0
Tiago Pereira Cardoso	Sub	16			0	0.00	0.00	0
Marvin Friedrich	Sub	3			0	0.00	0.00	0
Rocco Reitz	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Werder Bremen win 43% Avg odds 2.24

Draw 26% Avg odds 3.66

Borussia Monchengladbach win 31% Avg odds 3.09

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

Form going into the game

Werder Bremen L L L L W

Borussia Monchengladbach D W L W L

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Borussia Monchengladbach 4-1 Werder Bremen, 03 Nov 24 Next meeting: Borussia Monchengladbach 0-4 Werder Bremen, 14 Sep 25 All Werder Bremen vs Borussia Monchengladbach 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.