Darmstadt 98 and Werder Bremen will clash on Sunday the 1st of October at 3:30 pm in the 6th week of the Bundesliga. The match is going to be played in Darmstadt at the Merck-Stadion am Böllenfalltor. The chosen referee is Martin Petersen.
Darmstadt 98 occupies the 17th place in the table with 1 points. It comes from a 3-1 loss against VfB Stuttgart in its last match in the Bundesliga. Thus far, it has drawn once and lost 4 times.
Werder Bremen sits in the 12th place in the league with 6 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against FC Köln in its last match in the Bundesliga. Until now, it has won twice and lost 3 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Darmstadt 98
Darmstadt 98 has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (2 times or 40.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 3-1-4-2 (once), 3-5-2 (once) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Torsten Lieberknecht is expected to play against Werder Bremen with the following players: Marcel Schuhen, Matej Maglica, Klaus Gjasula, Christoph Klarer, Emir Karić, Matthias Bader, Marvin Mehlem, Fabian Holland, Mathias Honsak, Tim Skarke and Luca Pfeiffer.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Darmstadt 98 would be 27.64.
Christoph Zimmermann, Braydon Manu, Fabian Nürnberger, Fraser Hornby and Oscar Vilhelmsson will definitely miss the match.
Werder Bremen
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (5 times).
Ole Werner is expected to play against Darmstadt 98 with the following players: Jiří Pavlenka, Amos Pieper, Miloš Veljković, Senne Lynen, Olivier Deman, Mitchell Weiser, Jens Stage, Romano Schmid, Marvin Ducksch and Rafael Borré.
In case that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Werder Bremen would be 26.70.
There are doubts about the presence of Marco Friedl.
Ole Werner will probably not be able to employ Naby Keïta because of injury.
Niklas Stark will definitely miss the match.