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Borussia Dortmund came to the “unavoidable” decision to part ways with head coach Nuri Şahin on Wednesday morning, hours after they conceded twice in as many minutes to lose 2-1 to Bologna in the UEFA Champions League. The decision came as little surprise as a fourth successive defeat stretched their miserable recent run to just one win from nine matches across all competitions (D3, L5).
The club’s under-19 coach Mike Tullberg assumes the hot seat this weekend, tasked with hauling Dortmund out of the bottom half of the Bundesliga table. The safe haven of Signal Iduna Park has slipped of late too, with the Black and Yellows winless on home soil since November’s victory over Freiburg (D2, L2). Still, the Yellow Wall has happy memories of meetings with Werder Bremen, as Dortmund have lost just one of the last 12 league H2Hs (W7, D4).
Werder Bremen head into the weekend a point and a place better off in the table than their hosts, despite suffering a miserable start to 2025 themselves. Ole Werner’s men went into the break on a four-match winning streak, but have failed to emerge victorious from any of their three matches since the turn of the year (D1, L2), marking their first set of three Bundesliga games without a win in succession all season.
The biggest concern for the River Islanders is the fact they’ve conceded nine goals across those matches. Four of those came on the road against Leipzig (L 4-2), but Bremen have generally been more solid on their travels with only Bayern (20) and Leverkusen (18) accumulating more than their 16 away points pre-round - that’s their best such total from their first nine top-flight road games of a season since 2009/10!
Players to watch: Dortmund centre-back Nico Schlotterbeck will be tasked with organising his side’s underperforming defence, and there are promising signs as he’s kept a clean sheet in three of his last four meetings with Bremen. The visitors were perhaps unfortunate to lose against Augsburg last week having failed to score from 20 shots, six of which came from Jens Stage, who’s netted four of his seven goals this term away from home (W2).
Hot stat: Dortmund have kept a joint-league low one clean sheet in the Bundesliga since a goalless draw in August’s reverse fixture.
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