Werder Bremen 3-1 FC Köln: result and report
Bundesliga · Sunday 16 November 2008
Result
Werder Bremen 3-1 FC Köln
Bundesliga · Sunday 16 November 2008, 16:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Werder Bremen 3-1 FC Köln: match report
Werder Bremen beat FC Köln 3-1 in the Bundesliga on Sunday 16 November 2008. The half-time score was 2-0.
Diego opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Werder Bremen's goals came from Diego (15', penalty), Naldo (45+1') and Hugo Almeida (55'). FC Köln scored through Milivoje Novaković (48').
Discipline: Werder Bremen received 1 yellow card; FC Köln received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Werder Bremen were 11th on 17 points from 12 and FC Köln 9th on 19 points from 12. Werder Bremen went on to finish that season 10th with 45 points, and FC Köln 12th with 39.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Werder Bremen wins, 0 draws and 0 for FC Köln.
Going into the match Werder Bremen's last five read D-W-L-D-D and FC Köln's W-W-L-L-W.
Key events
- 15'Penalty goal · Diego
- 19'Yellow card · Roda Antar
- 27'Yellow card · M. Brečko
- 34'Yellow card · Aaron Hunt
- 45+1'Goal · Naldo
- 45+1'Yellow card · Milivoje Novaković
- 48'Goal · Milivoje Novaković
- 53'Yellow card · Nemanja Vucicevic
- 55'Goal · Hugo Almeida
Head-to-head
Team news
Werder Bremen line-up (4-3-1-2)
Tim Wiese, Petri Pasanen, Naldo, Sebastian Prödl, Per Mertesacker, Frank Baumann, Aaron Hunt, Hugo Almeida, Claudio Pizarro, Diego, Torsten Frings
FC Köln expected line-up
Alexander Bade, Carsten Cullmann, Marvin Matip, Christian Lell, Lukas Sinkiewicz, Ricardo Cabanas, Albert Streit, Lukas Podolski, Matthias Scherz, Markus Feulner, Alpay Ozalan