Werder Bremen vs Borussia Monchengladbach

1 October 2022 · Bundesliga · 2022/23 · Referee Matthias Jöllenbeck

Full time 5 – 1

Half-time: 4–0

Niclas Füllkrug 5’, 13’
Marvin Ducksch 8’
Ramy Bensebaini 37’ (og)
Mitchell Weiser 73’

Marcus Thuram 63’

Match summary

Werder Bremen won comfortably, 5-1 at home to Borussia Monchengladbach. Werder Bremen led 4-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Niclas Füllkrug put Werder Bremen ahead in the 5th minute, set up by Romano Schmid, Marvin Ducksch made it 2-0 in the 8th minute, Füllkrug made it 3-0 in the 13th minute, set up by Marvin Ducksch, and Bensebaini's own goal made it 4-0 in the 37th minute. In the second half, Marcus Thuram pulled one back to make it 4-1 in the 63rd minute, set up by Lars Stindl and Mitchell Weiser made it 5-1 in the 73rd minute, set up by Niclas Füllkrug.

The chances backed that up: Werder Bremen created 3.35 expected goals (xG) from 14 shots to Borussia Monchengladbach's 2.27 from 13.

Match stats

14 Shots 13

9 Shots on Target 9

4 Corners 5

0 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 0

3.35 xG 2.27

3.35 Non-penalty xG 2.27

7 Deep Completions 5

Key events

Werder Bremen Borussia Monchengladbach

Kick-off

Niclas Füllkrug
Assist: Romano Schmid

1-0

5’

Marvin Ducksch

2-0

8’

Niclas Füllkrug
Assist: Marvin Ducksch

3-0

13’

Ramy Bensebaini
Own goal

4-0

37’

Half-time4-0

63’

Marcus Thuram
Assist: Lars Stindl

4-1

Mitchell Weiser
Assist: Niclas Füllkrug

5-1

73’

Full-time5-1

Bookings

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

Borussia Monchengladbach

Kouadio Kone

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 3.35 xGBorussia Monchengladbach 2.27 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	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Jiri Pavlenka	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Niklas Stark	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Milos Veljkovic	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Marco Friedl	DEF	85			0	0.00	0.04	1
Mitchell Weiser	MID	90	1		3	1.09	0.42	2
Anthony Jung	MID	90			2	0.55	0.00	0
Ilia Gruev	MID	77			0	0.00	0.00	0
Christian Groß	MID	77			0	0.00	0.15	2
Romano Schmid	MID	72		1	0	0.00	0.40	1
Niclas Füllkrug	FWD	90	2	1	3	1.01	1.09	3
Marvin Ducksch	FWD	72	1	1	5	0.66	0.64	3
Jens Stage	Sub	18			0	0.00	0.00	0
Oliver Burke	Sub	18			1	0.03	0.00	0
Nicolai Rapp	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.00	0
Leonardo Bittencourt	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.00	0
Niklas Schmidt	Sub	5			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Yann Sommer	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Joe Scally	DEF	77			1	0.22	0.35	1
Marvin Friedrich	DEF	90			2	0.05	0.00	0
Nico Elvedi	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.06	1
Ramy Bensebaini	DEF	88			0	0.00	0.00	0
Julian Weigl	MID	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Kouadio Kone	MID	88			0	0.00	0.03	1
Jonas Hofmann	MID	90			0	0.00	0.26	3
Christoph Kramer	MID	83			2	0.30	0.06	1
Lars Stindl	MID	77		1	3	0.44	1.14	3
Marcus Thuram	FWD	90	1		3	1.16	0.00	0
Stefan Lainer	Sub	13			0	0.00	0.00	0
Patrick Herrmann	Sub	13			2	0.10	0.00	0
Nathan N'Goumou Minpol	Sub	7			0	0.00	0.09	1
Luca Netz	Sub	2			0	0.00	0.00	0
Rocco Reitz	Sub	2			0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Werder Bremen win 37% Avg odds 2.62

Draw 25% Avg odds 3.80

Borussia Monchengladbach win 38% Avg odds 2.50

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

Form going into the game

Werder Bremen W L W L D

Borussia Monchengladbach W D L D W

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Werder Bremen 2-4 Borussia Monchengladbach, 22 May 21 Next meeting: Borussia Monchengladbach 2-2 Werder Bremen, 17 Mar 23 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.