This coming Saturday, 28.08.2010, the Green-Whites will play their first home game in the 2010/2011 Bundesliga season against 1. FC Köln. Ahead of the game, WERDER.DE and OptaSportdaten...
This coming Saturday, 28.08.2010, the Green-Whites will play their first home game in the 2010/2011 Bundesliga season against 1. FC Köln. Ahead of the game, WERDER.DE and OptaSportdaten...
This coming Saturday, 28.08.2010, the Green-Whites will play their first home game in the 2010/2011 Bundesliga season against 1. FC Köln. Ahead of the game, WERDER.DE and OptaSportdaten present, as always, the important pre-match facts and figures.
The record of results between Bremen and Köln could hardly be much closer. So far each has won 31 of their Bundesliga meetings, with 18 clashes ending in draws.
Werder have lost just one of their last 13 Bundesliga meetings with the 'Geißböcke'.
Köln’s last Bundesliga win on the banks of the Weser was almost 15 years ago. In the 1995/1996 season, the club from the Rhine were 1-0 winners in Bremen. Since then, the 'Geißböcke' have lost seven of their eight appearances in Bremen (one draw). FC Köln haven’t picked up a point in Bremen since September 2001.
Both sides lost their 2010/2011 season opener. Bremen are currently bottom of the league – for the first time in eight years (back then it was also after the first match day).
Together with Giovane Elber, Claudio Pizarro (133 Bundesliga goals) is the most potent foreign striker in the history of the Bundesliga and his first goal of the season would put him all alone at the very top of the pile.
Youssef Mohamad will miss out on the tie, having incurred a three match suspension after picking up a red card against Kaiserslautern. It was the quickest red card in the history of the Bundesliga (after just 94 seconds).
Lukas Podolski, who played his 150th Bundesliga game last weekend, has now been waiting for a goal in the league for some 734 minutes.
