The match started with few minutes of silence for the great Argentina player Diego Maradona who died earlier. Wout Weghorst scored a double to aid an unbeaten Wolfsburg hike towards a fifth place on the table. Bremen was coming off a five-game 1-1 draw and scoring just 20 goals in the whole season compared to 14 of Wolfsburg. Visitors went ahead in the 13th minute when Leonardo Bittencourt scored, which was answered with two smashes by defender Ridle Baku and John Brooks at 22nd and other three minutes apart. Bremen scored at 35th to equalize with Kevin Möhwald’s header.
Before the first half could end Weghorst scored two minutes later. Bremen’s own goal at the start of the second half might have been an omen of their loss when Wolfsburg doubled his score in the 76th minute and Bartosz Bialek later made the score 5-3 to deny a win to Bremen.