Werder Bremen vs RasenBallsport Leipzig — Bundesliga result and pre-match forecast, Saturday, 5 September 2026

Bundesliga·Saturday, 5 September 2026

Metis pre-match forecast

Market-anchored distribution

Frozen as published · 5.6 h before kick-off. Never re-computed after the match.

Werder Bremen

23%

result

Draw

22%

RasenBallsport Leipzig

55%

top pick

Final score

3–1

Top pick missed

Metis gave a Werder Bremen win 22.6% before kick-off, and its most likely result was a RasenBallsport Leipzig win. Expected goals 1.22–1.90 against 3–1 actual.

Forecast against the result

Over 2.5 goals61%4 scored
Both teams score61%yes
Werder Bremen clean sheet14%no
RasenBallsport Leipzig clean sheet30%no
Werder Bremen score 2+34%yes
RasenBallsport Leipzig score 2+58%no

How this forecast scored

Ranked probability score0.4527
1X2 Brier score0.9535
Probability on the result22.6%

Both scores are losses: lower is better, 0 is a forecast that put all of its probability on what happened. A single fixture says nothing on its own — the league's running record is on its league page, and the model is measured against the Pinnacle opening price in the methodology.

Most likely scores before kick-off: 1–2 (11.2%), 1–1 (10.1%), 0–1 (8.6%). It finished 3–1.

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Werder Bremen

30 AugAvs Freiburg1–4L
5 SeptHvs RasenBallsport Leipzig3–1W
12 SeptAvs FC Cologne1–1D
19 SeptHvs Augsburg3–2W
9 OctAvs Borussia Dortmund2–2D

RasenBallsport Leipzig

29 AugHvs Borussia M.Gladbach3–0W
5 SeptAvs Werder Bremen1–3L
13 SeptHvs Hamburg5–0W
20 SeptAvs Bayer Leverkusen0–2L
10 OctHvs Eintracht Frankfurt6–0W

Head to head

No previous meetings in the Metis results archive for this competition.

Model context

StatWerder Bremen
(Home · 4 matches)
RasenBallsport Leipzig
(Away · 4 matches)
BTTS rate75.0%50.0%
Over 2.5 rate75.0%50.0%
Clean sheet25.0%25.0%
Avg goals3.753.75

Home stats use Werder Bremen's home record; away stats use RasenBallsport Leipzig's away record this season. These are completed-match rates over the samples shown above, not model probabilities — early in a season a handful of matches produces 0% and 100% readings.