Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-3 Werder Bremen: result and report

Bundesliga · Sunday 17 March 2019

Result

Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-3 Werder Bremen

Bundesliga · Sunday 17 March 2019, 12:30 UTC · half-time 0-2

Bayer 04 Leverkusen · Werder Bremen · Bundesliga predictions

Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-3 Werder Bremen: match report

Bayer 04 Leverkusen lost to Werder Bremen 1-3 in the Bundesliga on Sunday 17 March 2019. The half-time score was 0-2.

M. Kruse opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Bayer 04 Leverkusen's goal came from L. Bailey (75'). Werder Bremen scored through M. Kruse (13'), Milot Rashica (37') and M. Kruse (90+5').

Discipline: Bayer 04 Leverkusen received 3 yellow cards; Werder Bremen received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Bayer 04 Leverkusen were 6th on 42 points from 25 and Werder Bremen 9th on 36 points from 25. Bayer 04 Leverkusen went on to finish that season 4th with 58 points, and Werder Bremen 8th with 53.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen lined up in a 4-3-3 and Werder Bremen in a 4-3-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Leon Bailey of Bayer 04 Leverkusen (9.0), ahead of Zoran Zekic (8.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen wins, 3 draws and 3 for Werder Bremen.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 13'Goal · M. KruseWerder Bremen · 0-1
  • 37'Yellow card · Lars BenderBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 37'Goal · Milot RashicaWerder Bremen · 0-2
  • 40'Yellow card · Aleksandar DragovicBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 71'Yellow card · Nuri SahinWerder Bremen
  • 75'Goal · L. BaileyBayer 04 Leverkusen · 1-2
  • 89'Yellow card · Jiri PavlenkaWerder Bremen
  • 90+1'Yellow card · WendellBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 90+5'Goal · M. KruseWerder Bremen · 1-3

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4, draws 3, Werder Bremen 3.

Team news

Bayer 04 Leverkusen line-up (4-3-3)

Lukas Hradecky, Lars Bender, Jonathan Tah, Aleksandar Dragovic, Wendell, Charles Aránguiz, Julian Baumgartlinger, Julian Brandt, Karim Bellarabi, Kevin Volland, Leon Bailey

Werder Bremen line-up (4-3-1-2)

Jiri Pavlenka, Theodor Gebre Selassie, Marco Friedl, Niklas Moisander, Ludwig Augustinsson, Maximilian Eggestein, Nuri Şahin, Davy Klaassen, Zoran Zekic, Johannes Eggestein, Milot Rashica