VfL Bochum (4D 15L) has only won one of the last 20 competitive games against SV Werder Bremen – with 2-1 in February 2008 in Bremen (last at home in September 1998). VfL only suffered more competitive defeats in German professional football against Bayern Munich (54) than against Werder (46).
In the Bundesliga, VfL Bochum recently won the first Bundesliga game after the winter break five times in a row, including against SV Werder Bremen (2-1) in February 2008 – that is the best series in the Bochum club’s history at the start of each season new calendar year in the upper house.
SV Werder Bremen has been unbeaten in three Bundesliga games (W1 D2), the Green-Whites last went unbeaten in four games in a row in the upper house from September to November 2020 (at that time even 7 BL games in a row).
VfL Bochum only lost one of the last 10 Bundesliga home games (1-3 against Borussia Mönchengladbach, plus W4 D5) and recently won two home games in a row – for the first time since October 2022 to February 2023, VfL could win three home games in a row in the upper house (back then even 5).
Away from home, SV Werder Bremen have won just one (4-2 at Hertha BSC in April this year) of their last 15 Bundesliga games (D4 L10) and haven’t kept a single clean sheet. Since this victory, Bremen have remained winless in their last 10 games in the upper house (D2 L8) – Werder’s longest winless streak in BL away games since 2016 (also 10 games).
Werder Bremen is the weakest away team this Bundesliga season with two points and is only alongside Mainz 05 without an away win this BL season (D2 L5). Two points after seven BL away games is Werder’s weakest record in 46 years (1977/78: one point).
VfL Bochum has always scored at least one goal in each of its last 13 Bundesliga home games; currently only Bayern Munich (64) and Bayer 04 Leverkusen (16) have a longer goal streak at home. Most recently, VfL scored three times in two home games in a row, three times in a row would be a club record in the upper house (the Bochum team last achieved this in autumn 2003).
SV Werder Bremen only had 177 pressing sequences this Bundesliga season – only one team less in the league: Gladbach with 173. VfL Bochum, on the other hand, is the team with the second most pressing sequences in the league (241, only Leverkusen has more: 247).
In the 2023 calendar year, SV Werder Bremen’s Marvin Ducksch collected 23 direct goal involvements (16D 7V), which was only exceeded by Harry Kane (26) and Serhou Guirassy (25) in the comparable period. In Europe’s five major leagues, only two other Germans achieved Ducksch’s scoring output in the 2023 calendar year: Julian Brandt and Leroy Sane (also 23 each).
Bochum’s Kevin Stöger recently provided six shot assists against Union Berlin, three from open play (a personal best in the Bundesliga) and three from standard play. Stöger now has a total of 42 shot assists in this Bundesliga season, only Honorat (47), Brandt (48) and Sane (49) gave more.