Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-0 Werder Bremen: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 24 January 2026

Result

Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-0 Werder Bremen

Bundesliga · Saturday 24 January 2026, 14:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Bayer 04 Leverkusen 1-0 Werder Bremen: match report

Bayer 04 Leverkusen defeated Werder Bremen 1-0 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 24 January 2026. It was 1-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Lucas Vázquez of Bayer 04 Leverkusen in the 37th minute.

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

Going into the game Bayer 04 Leverkusen were 6th on 29 points from 17 and Werder Bremen 14th on 18 points from 17. Bayer 04 Leverkusen went on to finish that season 6th with 59 points, and Werder Bremen 15th with 32.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Werder Bremen in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Marco Friedl of Werder Bremen (7.9), level with Ibrahim Maza (7.9).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen wins, 5 draws and 1 for Werder Bremen.

Going into the match Bayer 04 Leverkusen's last five read L-L-W-W-L and Werder Bremen's D-L-D-L-L.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 37'Goal · Lucas VázquezBayer 04 Leverkusen · 1-0
  • 78'Yellow card · Marco FriedlWerder Bremen
  • 78'Yellow card · Jonas HofmannBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 87'Yellow card · Loïc BadéBayer 04 Leverkusen
  • 88'Yellow card · Julián MalatiniWerder Bremen
  • 90+6'Yellow card · Olivier DemanWerder Bremen

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Bayer 04 Leverkusen 4, draws 5, Werder Bremen 1.

Team news

Bayer 04 Leverkusen line-up (3-4-2-1)

Janis Blaswich, Jarell Quansah, Robert Andrich, Loïc Badé, Lucas Vázquez, Ibrahim Maza, Aleix García, Alejandro Grimaldo, Jonas Hofmann, Ernest Poku, Patrik Schick

Werder Bremen line-up (3-5-2)

Mio Backhaus, Amos Pieper, Marco Friedl, Abdoul Karim Coulibaly, Yukinari Sugawara, Romano Schmid, Senne Lynen, Jens Stage, Isaac Schmidt, Justin Njinmah, Marco Grüll