Schalke come into this one in decent shape, with two wins and two draws in their last five games, including a couple of clean sheets. Werder Bremen are finding things tougher - they haven't won any of their last five, drawing three and losing two, and they've been letting in goals fairly regularly, so they'll be hoping to tighten up. When these two have met recently, the games have often been close and not packed with goals, and the last two meetings both ended in narrow one-goal wins for Schalke.

Overall this looks like a tight, fairly even contest rather than a wide-open shootout. Given Schalke's better run of form and their recent edge in these meetings, they're the slightly stronger side here and the most likely to come out on top.