Werder Bremen 4-1 FC Union Berlin: result and report

Bundesliga · Saturday 21 December 2024

Result

Werder Bremen 4-1 FC Union Berlin

Bundesliga · Saturday 21 December 2024, 14:30 UTC · half-time 3-1

Werder Bremen · FC Union Berlin · Bundesliga predictions

Werder Bremen 4-1 FC Union Berlin: match report

Werder Bremen defeated FC Union Berlin 4-1 in the Bundesliga on Saturday 21 December 2024. The half-time score was 3-1.

Marco Grüll opened the scoring in the 13th minute. Werder Bremen's goals came from Marco Grüll (13'), Marco Grüll (17'), Mitchell Weiser (45') and Jens Stage (87'). FC Union Berlin scored through András Schäfer (23').

Discipline: Werder Bremen received 2 yellow cards; FC Union Berlin received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Werder Bremen were 9th on 22 points from 14 and FC Union Berlin 12th on 16 points from 13. Werder Bremen went on to finish that season 8th with 51 points, and FC Union Berlin 13th with 40.

Werder Bremen lined up in a 3-5-2 and FC Union Berlin in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Derrick Köhn of Werder Bremen (8.2), ahead of Marco Grüll (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Werder Bremen wins, 0 draws and 6 for FC Union Berlin.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

5'Yellow card · Danilho DoekhiFC Union Berlin
13'Goal · Marco GrüllWerder Bremen · 1-0
17'Goal · Marco GrüllWerder Bremen · 2-0
19'Yellow card · Marco FriedlWerder Bremen
23'Goal · András SchäferFC Union Berlin · 2-1
45'Yellow card · Rani KhediraFC Union Berlin
45'Goal · Mitchell WeiserWerder Bremen · 3-1
87'Goal · Jens StageWerder Bremen · 4-1
90+4'Yellow card · Oliver BurkeWerder Bremen

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Werder Bremen 2, draws 0, FC Union Berlin 6.

FC Union Berlin 2-1 Werder BremenBundesliga · 16 Mar 2024
Werder Bremen 2-0 FC Union BerlinBundesliga · 28 Oct 2023
FC Union Berlin 1-0 Werder BremenBundesliga · 27 May 2023
Werder Bremen 1-2 FC Union BerlinBundesliga · 25 Jan 2023
FC Union Berlin 3-1 Werder BremenBundesliga · 24 Apr 2021
Werder Bremen 0-2 FC Union BerlinBundesliga · 2 Jan 2021

Team news

Unavailable

Yannic SteinFC Union Berlin · injury (Surgery)
Felix AguWerder Bremen · injury (Outer Ligament Problems)
Andrej IlicFC Union Berlin · injury (Knock)
Keke ToppWerder Bremen · injury (Syndesmotic Ligament Tear)
Oluwaseun OgbemudiaFC Union Berlin · injury (Foot Injury)
Leonardo BittencourtWerder Bremen · injury (Muscular problems)
Kevin VogtFC Union Berlin · suspension (Yellow Card Suspension)
Woo-yeong JeongFC Union Berlin · injury (Knock)
Frederik RönnowFC Union Berlin · injury (Knock)
Justin NjinmahWerder Bremen · injury (Ankle Problems)

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

Michael Zetterer, Niklas Stark, Marco Friedl, Anthony Jung, Mitchell Weiser, Jens Stage, Senne Lynen, Romano Schmid, Derrick Köhn, Marco Grüll, Marvin Ducksch

FC Union Berlin line-up (3-4-2-1)

Alexander Schwolow, Danilho Doekhi, Leopold Querfeld, Diogo Leite, Christopher Trimmel, András Schäfer, Rani Khedira, Tom Rothe, Robert Skov, Yorbe Vertessen, Benedict Hollerbach