Bochum vs Werder Bremen Preview: Team News & Prediction

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Bochum’s quest to gain a first Bundesliga win of the season enters its 13th attempt as they take on Werder Bremen.

Kick-off date/time: Saturday 7th December 2024: UK – 2:30pm / US ET – 9:30am / US PT – 6:30am

How to watch on TV: UK – Not Televised / US – Some matches will be televised on ESPN channels so it is worth checking their schedules

How to watch online: UK – Cannot be streamed / US – ESPN+

Bochum Preview: Firmly cut adrift

A whole 12 matches into the 2024-25 Bundesliga campaign and only two points to show from it. That puts into perspective just how bad it has been for Bochum, who find themselves rooted to the bottom of the table. A surprise draw against Bayer Leverkusen has been sandwiched between a pair of defeats, with the hosts having lost ten of their 12 league matches.

Since that Leverkusen game, Bochum are yet to find the net, losing consecutive away fixtures to nil against Stuttgart and Augsburg respectively and are now eight points adrift of 16th-placed Heidenheim.

Werder Bremen Preview: Underwhelming so far

It’s been a mid-table as you can get from Werder Bremen so far this season, with four wins, four draws and four losses from 12 fixtures testament to that. Reaching the DFB-Pokal quarter-finals however, has provided a welcome tonic following a hard-fought 1-0 win over Darmstadt this past Tuesday.

Getting three points here is absolutely vital from a Werder Bremen point of view and failing to do so would likely unrest for supporters when taking into account the record of rock-bottom Bochum.

Bochum Team News: Gruesome injury rules out Medic

A fractured eye socket ensures that midfielder Jakov Medic will play no part in this game and neither will Myron Boadu, the Monaco loanee is suffering from a hip problem.

Predicted XI (3-5-2): Drewes; Oermann, Ordets, Bernardo; Passlack, Bero, Losilla, Sissoko, Wittek; Hofmann, Broschinski

Unavailable: Boadu (Injured), Medic (Injured)

Questionable: 

Werder Bremen Team News: Njinmah and Ducksch to both start?

Werder Bremen head coach Ole Werner may opt to field forward Justin Njinmah out wide in a bid to get both him and Marvin Ducksch into the starting XI. Agu and Topp are both ruled out through injury.

Predicted XI (3-4-3): Zetterer; Stark, Friedl, Jung; Weiser, Stage, Lynen, Kohn; Njinmah, Ducksch, Schmid 

Unavailable: Agu (Injured), Topp (Injured)

Questionable: Veljkovic (Injured)

Bochum vs Werder Bremen Prediction

Werder Bremen may have been far from convincing over the course of the season so far, but it’s better than what can be said for Bochum, where it’s hard to see where their next goal is coming from, let alone next win. This serves as a big chance for Werder to pick up three points on the road and they are well worth backing to claim them.

Bochum vs Werder Bremen Tip: Werder Bremen to win