Eintracht Frankfurt vs Werder Bremen

Eintracht Frankfurt’s final warm-up fixture ahead of the Champions League home clash against Serie A pacesetters Napoli pits them against fellow Bundesliga top-half rivals Werder Bremen at the Deutsche Bank Park.

Following a decent four-match league start to 2023 (W2, D2), Eintracht Frankfurt slumped to a woeful 3-0 defeat at Cologne last time out, falling two points behind fourth-placed Freiburg. After being knocked down from a seven-game unbeaten streak in the Bundesliga, Frankfurt will seek refuge at the Deutsche Bank Park, where they’ve won their last three league outings by an aggregate score of 10-2, noticeably netting 3+ goals in each triumph. After an action-packed 4-3 win in the reverse fixture in August, ‘Die Adler’ could complete their first top-flight double over Werder Bremen since 2009/10, with a three-game unbeaten H2H home run boding well (W1, D2).

On the other hand, Werder Bremen’s mini-revival featuring back-to-back league victories over Stuttgart and Wolfsburg came to an abrupt end at the hands of Borussia Dortmund last weekend (0-2). That result marked Werder’s first scoring blank in the Bundesliga after eight matches, but they’ve only failed to score in consecutive league outings once this season. Indeed, ‘Die Werderner’ ran out 2-0 winners against Stuttgart on their last league travel, making it their fourth away top-flight win of the season, as many victories as in their entire 2020/21 relegation season. Particularly lethal in the final quarter of an hour, Ole Werner’s men have netted a league-high 13 goals inside the last 15 minutes of play this term.