FC Köln 3–1 Werder Bremen
- El Mala 7' (pen.)
- Ache 65'
- Backhaus 90+7' (o.g.)
- Friedl 24'
- Schmid 75' (pen.)
12 April 2026
The match in data
A 3–1 win for FC Köln against Werder Bremen on 12 April 2026, on matchday 29 of the 2025-26 Bundesliga.
Player of the match: Eric Martel (FC Köln), rated 70, thanks above all to 6 final-third passes and 62 passes. Martel produced 1.1 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.4 times the cost.
For Werder Bremen, the highest-rated player was Justin Njinmah, with 57.
Marco Friedl was sent off at 24'.
Eric Martel
FC Köln · 90'
Produced 1.06× and cost 0.40× their position's average
- 6 final-third passes 1.1×
- 62 passes 1.4×
- 4 interceptions 4.0×
- 0.30 xG not converted 4.0×
- 3 misplaced passes 0.4×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: goalkeepers and anyone who played under 20 minutes.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Eric Martel ★ | Midfielder | 90 | 70 |
| Ísak Jóhannesson | Midfielder | 90 | 66 |
| Ragnar Ache | Forward | 76 | 64 |
| Linton Maina | Forward | 23 | 64 |
| Marius Bülter | Forward | 23 | 55 |
| Cenk Özkacar | Defender | 90 | 42 |
| Jahmai Simpson-Pusey | Defender | 90 | 42 |
| Jakub Kamiński | Forward | 90 | 38 |
| Jan Thielmann | Forward | 67 | 38 |
| Sebastian Sebulonsen | Defender | 86 | 36 |
| Said El Mala | Forward | 67 | 36 |
| Kristoffer Lund | Defender | 46 | 36 |
| Alessio Castro-Montes | Midfielder | 44 | 36 |
| Marvin Schwäbe | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Luca Waldschmidt | Forward | 14 | no rating |
| Tom Krauß | Midfielder | 4 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Justin Njinmah | Forward | 90 | 57 |
| Yukinari Sugawara | Defender | 46 | 51 |
| Romano Schmid | Midfielder | 90 | 50 |
| Felix Agu | Defender | 78 | 50 |
| Marco Friedl | Defender | 24 | 50 |
| Leonardo Bittencourt | Midfielder | 84 | 48 |
| Amos Pieper | Defender | 90 | 44 |
| Senne Lynen | Midfielder | 90 | 44 |
| Marco Grüll | Forward | 46 | 44 |
| Salim Musah | Forward | 44 | 38 |
| Olivier Deman | Defender | 90 | 33 |
| Karim Coulibaly | Defender | 44 | 33 |
| Mio Backhaus | Goalkeeper | 90 | no rating |
| Isaac Schmidt | Defender | 12 | no rating |
| Jovan Milosevic | Forward | 6 | no rating |
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.