SV Werder Bremen 3-2 FC Augsburg: Bundesliga Match Report, 19 September 2026

Trailing at the interval, three goals by the end: SV Werder Bremen 3-2 FC Augsburg was a turnaround, and it was the first defeat Augsburg had suffered this season.

Half-time read 0-1, which fitted the table. Augsburg arrived fourth on seven points from three games, plus six on goals — a 3-0 against Schalke, a 4-1 at Frankfurt, a 2-2 at home to Leverkusen, nine scored and three conceded, unbeaten. Werder were tenth on four points from three, minus one: beaten 1-4 at Freiburg on the opening weekend, then a 3-1 win over Leipzig and a 1-1 draw at Köln. A side that had already shipped four in a match and already beaten one of last season's top three, which is to say a side the first three rounds had explained very little about.

Five goals and a reversed scoreline is not a quiet afternoon, and what the half-time score tells you is where the work was done. All five goals bar the first came after the break; Werder scored three of them and conceded one. There is no record of when any of them arrived beyond that split, so the sequence after the interval has to stay unwritten — what is certain is that a one-goal deficit at the interval had become a one-goal win by the end.

The fixture also broke a run. Augsburg had taken something from each of the previous four meetings between the clubs: a 3-1 win at Bremen in May, a 0-0 at home in December 2025, a 2-0 at Bremen in January 2025 and a 2-2 the previous August. Werder had not beaten them in any of those, and did here.

Both clubs finished the round on seven points from four games. Werder's goal difference came up to level, Augsburg's down to plus five, and the two of them sat separated by a tiebreak rather than a result. Four games is not a sample, and in the first week of the season Werder had been the side that lost by three, so neither the position nor the points carry weight yet.

Where the comparison does carry something is against last season. Werder finished fifteenth on thirty-two points with a difference of minus twenty-three, which was a survival campaign; seven points from four, and wins over Leipzig and an unbeaten Augsburg, is a different kind of start even allowing for the sample. Augsburg finished ninth on forty-three with minus sixteen, and the opening three games had suggested something better than that before this result trimmed the goal column.

The following weeks kept both in the same bracket. Werder drew 2-2 at Dortmund and 2-2 at home to Paderborn to reach nine points from six, unbeaten in five since the Freiburg defeat. Augsburg drew 2-2 with Bayern and then lost 4-3 at Elversberg, which left them on eight from six.

For transparency: this match was played during the month when nothing was being published here, so there is no pre-match position of ours to hold up against it.