After seven attempts die Schwarzgelben claimed their first victory of the Rückrunde with a hard fought 1-0 victory over Werder Bremen at Westfalenstadion.Without Kevin-Prince Boateng, Mats Hummels and Bajram Sadrijaj, Jürgen Klopp maintained their standard 4-4-2 "diamond" formation, tactically Sebastian Kehl had his hands full in the midfield against Bremen's Diego, Claudio Pizarro and Hugo Almeida. As the match began it became very clear that the visitors were not prepared to expose themselves going forward the defending was the rule of the day. Excluding a close range miss by Bremen's Claudio Pizzaro the match barely had a notable scoring attempt before the break and went to the half scoreless. After one penalty call in favour of BVB was denied near the hour mark, Nelson Valdez was brought down in the area by Sebastian Boenisch at the sixty-fourth minute and referee Knut Kircher pointed to the spot. Alexander Frei stepped up and pounded the ball into the net to give die Schwarzgelben the 1-0 lead. Bremen pressed for the equalizer late with five minutes remaining but Roman Weidenfeller denied Pizzaro's clearing scoring chance and kept BVB's victory intact.
