Werder Bremen v Eintracht Frankfurt: Bundesliga betting preview, free tips & TV

Free football tips, best bets and analysis for Werder Bremen v Eintracht Frankfurt in the German Bundesliga.

Where to watch

BT Sport 1, 7.30pm Wednesday

Best bet

Martin Hinteregger to score first
1pt each-way 22-1 bet365

Team news

Werder Bremen
Leonardo Bittencourt and Milot Rashica are doubts after suffering knocks against Schalke. Defender Milos Veljkovic returns from a one-match ban.

Eintracht Frankfurt
Lucas Torro is suspended after his red card against Wolfsburg and Goncalo Paciencia is a major injury doubt.

Match preview

Fans of relegation-threatened Werder Bremen must have feared the worst when their side resumed their Bundesliga campaign with a 4-1 home defeat to a Kai Havertz-inspired Bayer Leverkusen.

However, Werder have tightened up defensively since that reverse, with a pair of 1-0 victories over Freiburg and Schalke and a goalless draw against Borussia Monchengladbach, and victory over Eintracht Frankfurt would haul them out of the automatic relegation positions.

They go into Wednesday's game two points behind Fortuna Dusseldorf, who are in the relegation playoff spot having played a game more than Werder.

Home advantage hasn't been much of a factor in Bremen all season as just one of their six league victories has come on their own patch and 70 per cent of their goals have been scored away from home.

Bookmakers are not fully convinced by their recent defensive improvement, rating a mid-table but lively Eintracht Frankfurt side slight favourites to take three points.

While Werder have started to grind out clean sheets since the Bundesliga resumed behind closed doors, Eintracht's fixtures continue to reward goals backers.

Their four fixtures in May featured 20 goals and their last two away games before the season was halted due to the coronavirus pandemic ended in 4-0 defeats at Borussia Dortmund and Bayer Leverkusen.

Werder, with a meagre nine goals in 13 home matches this season, are clearly well below the class of Dortmund or Leverkusen but Eintracht's gung-ho approach makes them hard for punters to trust.

Andre Silva put them 2-1 up in the 88th minute of October's reverse fixture yet they still couldn't close out the game, conceding an injury-time penalty that was converted by Werder's leading scorer Milot Rashica.

They thrashed champions Bayern Munich 5-1 in the autumn but Bayern avenged that defeat with a 5-2 win at the Allianz Arena last month.

Both Eintracht's goals came from imposing Austrian centre-back Martin Hinteregger, who also scored in November's home win over Bayern.

That brace took Hinteregger's Bundesliga tally for the season to eight goals and he looks a tasty each-way price to open the scoring in Bremen. He also scored against Standard Liege in the Europa League and in Austria's Euro 2020 qualifying win over Israel in October and he should be the main target for the visitors' set-pieces.

Key stat

Just nine of Werder Bremen's 30 Bundesliga goals have come at home this season.

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