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 · FC Köln · Bundesliga predictions

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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Penalty goal · DiegoWerder Bremen · 1-0
  • 19'Yellow card · Roda AntarFC Köln
  • 27'Yellow card · M. BrečkoFC Köln
  • 34'Yellow card · Aaron HuntWerder Bremen
  • 45+1'Goal · NaldoWerder Bremen · 2-0
  • 45+1'Yellow card · Milivoje NovakovićFC Köln
  • 48'Goal · Milivoje NovakovićFC Köln · 2-1
  • 53'Yellow card · Nemanja VucicevicFC Köln
  • 55'Goal · Hugo AlmeidaWerder Bremen · 3-1

Head-to-head

2 meetings: Werder Bremen 2, draws 0, FC Köln 0.

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