Highlights from the first half:
2nd minute: Werder are awake. SVW put Leipzig under pressure from kick off and the Red Bulls have difficulty keeping the ball under the control in the face of such intensity.
10th minute: First chance for the Leipzig side. Nkunku and Henrichs try and combine but can’t find a way through the Green-Whites’ defence.
13th minute: Leipzig counter rapidly off the back of a Werder attack. Forsberg finds Silva and he finds the corner to put Leipzig ahead. 1-0.
16th minute: Jung wants to play it back to Pavlenka but his pass isn’t quite accurate and it creates a bit of havoc, but Pavlenka is able to clear just in time.
22nd minute: A great chance for Werder! Pieper makes a run in behind from Ducksch’s free kick and heads across the face of goal for Füllkrug who is ready to tap it in. However, a Leipzig player is in the way and blocks it from going across the line. So close!
26th minute: Werder still on top. Weiser and Füllkrug combine down the right flank. Weiser wants to lay up Ducksch, but a Leipzig defender is just about able to get his knee to the ball to deflect it away from danger.
28th minute: Pieper initiates an attack and finds Weiser who plays a through ball direct to Bittencourt. Yet again, he looks to lay up Ducksch but a Leipzig player cuts out the pass at the final moment. After this attack the score should at least be 1-1 by now!
29th minute: Nkunku is a few meters out and ready to pull the trigger, but Stark and Pieper throw themselves in front of the ball. The resulting corner doesn’t come to anything.
38th minute: Weiser loops a long ball in the direction of Füllkrug’s run. Füllkrug then lays it to Jung who shoots from the edge of the area. The shot is a powerful one but takes a deflection directly into the hands of the Leipzig keeper.
42nd minute: Werder keep coming. Bittencourt is able to weave through and shoot but Blaswich parries away.
45th minute: Raum puts in Nkunku who is able to role past Stark in a single movement. He comes up short against Pavlenka however.
