Europa League betting and spectator preview: Hapoel Be'er Sheva and Bayer Leverkusen meet at Yaakov Turner Toto Stadium to measure strength and learn who makes it to the next stage.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
These teams have little in common geographically as Bayer Leverkusen have to travel 4300 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
Hapoel Be'er Sheva form and stats
Last season their Europa League adventure ended in the play-offs.OK but not perfect. That could be the conclusion for Hapoel Be'er Sheva's two home games in the Ligat ha'Al so far this season, having collected 4 points here at Yaakov Turner Toto Stadium. This match is a Europa League match, and the hometeam has the total statistics 5 wins, 0 draws and 2 losses in this competition.
The Be'er crowd went home unhappy last time out, seeing their beloved players lose 2-4 to Bayer Leverkusen here at Yaakov Turner Toto Stadium in a Europa League match. In the match before that, Be'er hosted Bnei Sakhnin and drew the Ligat ha'Al game 2-2.
As you can tell by the result above, the goals flowed freely in the previous game and the stadium rocked. Could there be another goal fest today?
Early season league goal statistics from Hapoel Be'er Sheva's 2 home games: 5 goals, 4 conceded.
Bayer Leverkusen form and stats
Leverkusen was sent out of Europa League in the 8th finals last season.2 wins, 2 draws and 0 losses. That’s the product of Bayer Leverkusen playing as the away team in the Bundesliga this season. When we have look at the Europa League statistics, we find 2W-0D-1L. This is both home and away. Momentum is building for Bayer Leverkusen in their away games, having won their two previous outings.
It's the second away game in a row for Leverkusen, but there's smiles all around after the 4-2 victory versus Hapoel Be'er Sheva in the Europa League last time out. Before that one, a nice away victory 4-2 at Freiburg.
A crazy, crazy match with lots of goals last time out for Bayer Leverkusen, as mentioned above. 6 goals in that one, will this match be as much fun?
Again, the away team are huge favourites in this match and any other result would be an upset. We checked our Tipsway database for earlier, recent games with Bayer Leverkusen given similar win odds in an away game. This check revealed two matches with two wins as expected, zero draws and zero surprise home wins. The favourites won two of these games by at least two goals.
Leverkusen are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 6 times in 4 away games so far. It's not easy to score on Leverkusen as they have only conceded 3 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Be'er - Bayer Leverkusen 2-4 entered in the official records.Top Goalscorers
  L. Alario 5 goals |   G. Varenne 2 goals | I. Shviro 2 goals |
Hapoel Be'er Sheva missing players
Bayer Leverkusen missing players
| Hapoel Be'er Sheva | Bayer Leverkusen | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 15 | 25 | ||
| 10 | 9 | Won | W | 9 | 14 | ||
| 8 | 4 | Drew | D | 3 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 2 | Lost | L | 3 | 6 | ||
| 37 | 28 | Scored | S | 33 | 54 | ||
| 28 | 14 | Conceded | C | 14 | 32 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 93% | 96% | ||
| 72% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 73% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 53% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 53% | 56% | ||
| 32% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 40% | 48% | ||
| 12% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 27% | 32% | ||
| 56% | 47% | BTTS | BTTS | 53% | 64% | ||
| 32% | 47% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 28% | ||
| 20% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 12% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2.1 | 2.3 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.7 | 1.7 | ||
| 1 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 1 | ||
| 212 | 118 | Total Shots | T S | 224 | 332 | ||
| 85 | 53 | Shots on Target | S O | 81 | 122 | ||
| 44% | 53% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 41% | 44% | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bayer Leverkusen | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| 2 | Slavia Praha | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 3 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | -1 | 3 |
| 4 | Nice | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -4 | 3 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Maccabi Petah Tikva | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 2 | Beitar Jerusalem | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 7 |
| 3 | Maccabi Haifa | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 4 | Bnei Yehuda | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
| 5 | Maccabi Netanya | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 6 |
| 6 | Ashdod | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| 7 | Hapoel Kfar Saba | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 5 | -2 | 6 |
| 8 | Ironi Kiryat Shmona | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 9 | Hapoel Be'er Sheva | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -1 | 5 |
| 10 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 4 | -1 | 3 |
| 11 | Hapoel Tel Aviv | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 1 |
| 12 | Hapoel Haifa | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -3 | 1 |
| 13 | Hapoel Hadera | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | -5 | 1 |
| 14 | Bnei Sakhnin | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 9 | -10 | 1 |
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Bayern München | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 24 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 15 | 15 |
| 2 | Borussia Dortmund | 6 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 15 |
| 3 | RB Leipzig | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 |
| 4 | Bayer Leverkusen | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 12 |
| 5 | Borussia M'gladbach | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 11 |
| 6 | Augsburg | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 7 | Stuttgart | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 9 |
| 8 | Union Berlin | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 9 |
| 9 | Werder Bremen | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 10 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 9 |
| 11 | Wolfsburg | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
| 12 | Hoffenheim | 6 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 7 |
| 13 | Freiburg | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 6 |
| 14 | Hertha BSC | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 8 | 7 | -3 | 4 |
| 15 | Arminia Bielefeld | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | -6 | 4 |
| 16 | Köln | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -5 | 2 |
| 17 | Schalke 04 | 6 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 20 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 15 | -17 | 2 |
| 18 | Mainz 05 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 10 | -13 | 0 |