Match Report
The table gap was wide: 54 points between Magdeburg (1st, 85 pts) and Werder Bremen II (18th, 31 pts). Werder Bremen II ranked 8th in the league on five-round form, well above their 18th table position. Scoring rates set the scale: Werder Bremen II 1.03 scored and 1.63 conceded per game, Magdeburg 1.84 and 0.84, with the league averaging 1.37.
Werder Bremen II had gone 15 games without a win. Recent form was uneven: 1/15 points for Werder Bremen II, 7/15 for Magdeburg.
GioScore's database holds 5 meetings between the two: 0 for Werder Bremen II, 3 for Magdeburg and 2 drawn, at 2.4 goals per meeting. Hosting has counted for little in this fixture — the home side has won only 40% of those meetings. The fixture trends low-scoring: over two goals in just 20% of the meetings.
The venue was Weserstadion in Bremen, with room for 5,500 spectators. Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 1-1 at the break, before 2 more goals closed it at 1-3.