Werder Bremen vs Fortuna Dusseldorf predictions for Friday’s match in the Bundesliga. Read on for all our free predictions and betting tips.

Werder Bremen’s poor form over the last month has seen them slip down to ninth in the Bundesliga table, but on Friday Die Werderaner are presented with a great opportunity to return to winning ways when they play host to the division’s bottom club Fortuna Dusseldorf. The visitors are without a league win on the road this season and have only managed to win two games in their own backyard, but the hosts poor form will give Fortuna Dusseldorf hope they can end their away day blues on Friday.

Werder Bremen were punished by one of their former players at the weekend when German giants Bayern Munich provided the opposition at Weserstadion. Gnabry spent one impressive season as a Werder Bremen player scoring eleven goals from midfield before moving to Hoffenheim, but the German international now plies his trade with Bayern Munich and the 23-year old opened the scoring against his former employers in the twentieth minute.

However, the two clubs went in level at the break thanks to Japan international Ōsako’s thirty-third minute equaliser for the hosts. Bayern were controlling the game and should have been in front at the break, but some wayward finishing let the visitors down on multiple occasions. Just five minutes in the second half and Gnabry was at it again for the visitors, scoring his second goal of the game to put Bayern back in front.

The amount of shots on target each team managed during the ninety could be counted on one hand, but on a day where both sets of strikers failed to impressive it was a midfielder trained by Arsenal that upstage everyone else and earned the visitors all three points, and in stoppage time insult was added to injury for Bremen when defender Moisander picked up his second yellow card of the game and was given his marching orders. With four league goals this season Eggestein top scores for Werder Bremen, but Ōsako is just one goal behind his teammate with three, and Klaassen, Kruse, and Pizarro have all chipped in with two goals apiece.

Fortuna Dusseldorf will have been bitterly disappointed to have lost last weekend at home to Mainz as the hosts had 52% of the overall possession, twelve corners to the visitors five, and managed seventeen shots to their guests twelve during the ninety minutes.The first half ended goalless as Mainz resisted the onslaught of Fortuna Dusseldorf attacks, but the visitors always looked dangerous on the counter attack.

The second half panned out the same as the first with Dusseldorf creating chances and failing to score, while Mainz always looked dangerous on the counter. The games first goal always looked like it would be enough to win the game, but against the run of play it was Mainz that broke the deadlock in the sixty-seventh minute through Mateta. Fortuna Dusseldorf tired to get back into the game but their finishing was simply not good enough and even when they did test Mainz goalkeeper Zentner, he was more than up to the task.

Lukebakio is the visitors danger man with five Bundesliga goals to his name this season, but fellow countryman Raman has chipped in with three goals of his own and will be dangerous in and around the box. Neither team heads into Friday’s game in good form and both will be desperate to pick up all three points. History favours the hosts and on their day Bremen are the better team and have more quality in all areas of their squad than Fortuna Dusseldorf.

We’re confident that both teams will score on Friday, and have backed Werder Bremen to claim a 3-1 win in their own backyard. Both teams have scored in five of the last six meetings between Werder Bremen and Fortuna Dusseldorf. Both teams have also scored in each of Werder Bremen’s last six games in all competitions, as well as in three of Fortuna Dusseldorf’s last five matches. Werder Bremen are without a win in their last five Bundesliga games, but Fortuna Dusseldorf have won just one of their last four Bundesliga games and are yet to win away from home.

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These two clubs have played one another forty-eight times before, and with 21 wins, 12 draws, and 15 defeats its Werder Bremen that lead the head to head record.