Werder Bremen-Leipzig is a match on the 16th day of the Bundesliga and is played Tuesday at 6:30pm: TV, likely lineups, predictions.
It will be the Weserstadion challenge that will open the last day of Bundesliga 2023 before the long winter break. In the penultimate round of the first leg of the German top league, the hosts Werder Bremen and Leipzig will face each other, the latter coming off another important success against Hoffenheim (3-1).
Second consecutive win for the Roten Bullen after the one with Borussia Dortmund, which allowed them to move significantly closer to second-ranked Bayern Munich (the Bavarians, however, have to make up the match with Union Berlin, which was postponed due to too much snow). The Bavarians and top-ranked Bayer Leverkusen continue to run, but it is Leipzig itself that is the team that at the moment looks like it could fit into this two-way race. Dortmund, at the beginning of the season considered the most credible rival for Thomas Tuchel’s men, the defending champions, is increasingly distant. Stopped also by Augsburg for now it is -6 from Marco Rose’s red-and-whites, who in case of a victory in Bremen could further stretch. Leipzig therefore in the hunt for its fifth consecutive victory among all competitions. The one with the Swiss Young Boys in the past week did not help to avoid second place in a round dominated by Manchester City.
Four wins in a row for Leipzig
In the round of 16 of the continent’s top competition, the Roten Bullen’s opponent will be Ancelotti’s Real Madrid: first leg in Leipzig in February, return in March in Spain.
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Werder Bremen has different goals than its next opponent and is coming off a 2-2 draw in Monchengladbach. A good draw on a notoriously difficult pitch and against a team on the rise like Seoane’s. Reversed by a brace from Borussia talent Reitz after finding the lead almost immediately with Santos Borré, Ole Werner’s green-and-whites managed to find the (final) equalizing goal a quarter of an hour from the end with bomber Ducksch, on his seventh league goal.
The prediction
You can give confidence to a Leipzig side that seems to be growing match by match and wants to close out 2023 in the best possible way. The Roten Bullen moreover have not lost to Werder Bremen since 2019, and in the last seven previous matches they have always prevailed against the green-and-whites. The streak should be extended at the end of a match of at least one goal on each side.
The probable lineups of Werder Bremen-Leipzig
WERDER BREMA (3-1-4-2): Zetterer; Veljković, Stark, Jung; Stage; Weiser, Schmid, Bittencourt, Deman; Borré, Ducksch.
LIPSIA (4-3-1-2): Blaswich; Henrichs, Simakan, Castello, Raum; Baumgartner, Schlager, Kampl; Xavi Simons; Openda, Poulsen.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-3
