Gladbach’s 1-0 win over Hannover 96 last week was a welcome boost to their morale after suffering 4 straight losses. They are now back in contention for a European place as they sit just 4 points off the top six.
Christoph Kramer’s goal may have helped them to victory in that game, but they are still without a host of first-team players including Raffael, Oscar Wendt and Fabian Johnson.
Bremen also earned a morale-boosting win in the derby over Hamburg the last time out, and that has helped in their fight to avoid relegation this season. Johannsson’s winner helped them to move 6 points clear of the automatic relegation place and 2 points clear of the relegation playoff spots.
They head into this game with an away record that would worry their fans with just 2 wins from their last 8 away games in the league.
These two sides are low scoring teams, with Gladbach the lowest scoring team inside the top ten and Bremen are the joint 3rd lowest from the bottom half of the league table.
Gladbach have a good record at home, however, it is very unlikely that they would record a dominant here as they have been suffering some goal drought this season with under 2.5 goals scored in 67% of their home games this season.
A low scoring home win for Gladbach is our tip for this game.
