15.
8:47 p.m
Werder Bremen has made a very good impression in transition situations so far. This time Felix Nmecha has to sprint back and clear the ball from his own box to the corner. This time it doesn’t bring in anything.
14.
8:45 p.m
The guests now also get their first corner. With his cross from the right, Ducksch finds Bittencourt, who is obviously not worth covering, who puts his header completely unchallenged but not on goal.
12.
8:43 p.m
After a foul by Deman on Brandt, BVB receive a free kick in a promising position at the right corner of the penalty area. Marco Reus has made something of this before, but today he simply chases the ball straight into the goal.
11.
20:42
A first promising counterattack by the guests ends miserably because Kownacki has no idea in a one-on-one against Malen and simply gives the ball away.
10.
20:41
The pressure from Dortmund is increasing. After a chip ball into the box, Füllkrug and Reus initially disagree, then the captain is pushed too far out. Then Malen comes into play and shoots sharply inwards from the right, but is blocked.
8th.
8:39 p.m
The first corner of the game doesn’t bring anything at first, but there’s the next one for Dortmund. This time Marius Wolf heads the ball at the first post and puts his effort just wide of the far corner. There wasn’t much missing!
6.
8:38 p.m
BVB has the first chance! Donyell Malen suddenly has far too much space 25 meters in front of the goal, takes a few more steps and then takes a powerful shot. Substitute keeper Zetterer doesn’t seem particularly confident, but he parries the ball that wasn’t shot very well into the corner.
4.
8:36 p.m
Borussia is trying to take control straight away, but is not yet able to really get into the game against the guests who are very deep. There are still too many inaccuracies in the Terzić team’s game.
2.
8:35 p.m
Dortmund initially operates in the usual 4-5-1, Ole Werner sets up a 3-3-2-2, in which Jens Stage and Leonardo Bittencourt in particular are supposed to keep the spaces in front of the defense closed.
1.
8:33 p.m
The ball is rolling! The hosts of course play in black and yellow, Werder also wears white.
8:30 p.m
After a “moment of pause for peace” moderated by stadium announcer Norbert Dickel, football can begin immediately in Signal-Iduna-Park!
8:25 p.m
The game is led by referee Dr. Felix Brych and his assistants Mark Borsch and Stefan Lupp. Tobias Welz is responsible for the video evidence today.
8:15 p.m
The last duel in Dortmund, which will also be remembered by many others, should give the guests hope. Bremen was 2-0 down until the 89th minute, then Buchanan, Schmidt and Burke, all of whom no longer play for Werder, sensationally turned the game around within six minutes into a 3-2 away win for the green and white.
8:04 p.m
The Werder camp was optimistic before the first reunion with long-time goalgetter Niclas Füllkrug. “For me it’s a highlight game. 80,000, floodlights. For me it’s the game you look forward to all year long. We now want to prepare perfectly in this short time and play a good game,” Ole Werner said on the PK to the game. “Every opponent provides space that can be used. This will also be the case against Dortmund,” the SVW coach is certain.
19:54
“You can see that the play is getting better, that the boys are gaining more confidence, that the ease is coming back,” said BVB coach Edin Terzić happily ahead of today’s game. He and his team definitely don’t want to underestimate their ailing opponent. “We know that they didn’t have an easy phase in terms of results, but we know the quality of the opponent, we know how dangerous they can be and we are preparing for a really good Werder Bremen,” said Terzić, who concluded by making it clear: “That But the big goal for tomorrow is to get to the top – at least overnight.”
7:50 p.m
A quick look at the lineups: There is only one change for the home team compared to the last game two weeks ago. Julian Brandt starts in his 300th Bundesliga game for Jamie Bynoe-Gittens (bench). Youssoufa Moukoko is not in the squad due to injury. Werder coach Werner has to do without the injured Jiří Pavlenka and Naby Keïta, and Nicolai Rapp, Senne Lynen and Justin Njinmah are also rotated onto the bench. Michael Zetterer takes over in goal, with Leonardo Bittencourt, Olivier Deman, Dawid Kownacki and Jens Stage also starting.
7:37 p.m
There can be no talk of a good mood in Bremen at the moment. After a botched start to the season with the embarrassing cup loss to a third division team and only two wins from seven league games, SVW is in the bottom of the table and urgently needs a sense of success. If this is to work against BVB, who have recently been very hungry for goals, Werder must above all improve defensively. In the last four games, Bremen conceded an average of three goals, and four each against newly promoted Heidenheim and Darmstadt.
7:31 p.m
Even if BVB doesn’t always play brilliant football this season and is often criticized, the bottom line is that the numbers are impressive. Dortmund is one of only three unbeaten teams in the league and has won all of its last four games. Most recently, two weeks ago, they won 4-2 against Champions League participants Union Berlin. If the Black and Yellows extend their series to five wins in a row today, they will be at the top of the table at least until tomorrow. The mood in the Borussia camp is correspondingly good.
7:30 p.m
Hello and welcome to the Bundesliga on Friday evening! Borussia Dortmund and SV Werder Bremen open the eighth matchday in the German elite class after the international break. At 8:30 p.m. it’s all happening in Signal Iduna Park!