Bayer 04 Leverkusen vs SpVgg Greuther Fürth preview: Away team in for a back-breaking job at BayArena

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Competition: Germany Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 04.December
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: BayArena (30210 seats)

The Bundesliga match summary, better known as a league table, tells a story about these participants up until now, with Bayer 04 Leverkusen ahead of SpVgg Greuther Fürth by 23 points. Get your full match preview:

Insights:
  • Bayer 04 Leverkusen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the most conceded goals (39) in Bundesliga

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Bayer 04 Leverkusen form and stats

The story so far in the Bundesliga for Bayer 04 Leverkusen at their home stadium (BayArena) is 3 wins, 0 draws and 3 defeats.

Bayer 04 Leverkusen enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at RB Leipzig's place. The match ended 3-1 with Florian Wirtz, Moussa Diaby and Jeremie Frimpong scoring. Defender Jonathan Tah got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.64/10. Tah served one assist, hit one key pass and won 3 of 3 duels.

Before that, Leverkusen had a Europa League home game versus Celtic which ended with a victory 3-2.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Leverkusen home games with this odds we find five games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in four wins, zero draws and one defeat. Looking at the victories, two matches were won by at least two goals.

The Leverkusen fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 10 goals in 6 league matches. Leverkusen have conceded 11 from these games.

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SpVgg Greuther Fürth form and stats

There's been little loot from SpVgg Greuther Fürth's travels as they have only collected 0 points from 7 away games in the Bundesliga. SpVgg Greuther Fürth only have 0 wins to counter their 7 defeats and 0 draws. SpVgg Greuther Fürth are still without points from their Bundesliga away games. 7 games, 7 defeats. The sun doesn’t shine and the birds do not sing for Greuther, who have now gone 13 games without a victory. The Fortuna Dusseldorf game was their last win and it’s been a dry spell since.

The manager S. Leitl was unhappy after their last game, a Bundesliga match played at their home ground Sportpark Ronhof Thomas Sommer. Greuther suffered a 3-6 loss to TSG Hoffenheim (placed 5th). As you can tell from the result, the match against TSG Hoffenheim was as crazy as a clown in a village circus. Great fun for the neutral supporter with 9 goals, will the fun continue today? It is not a good sign for Greuther that their goalie Marius Funk managed six saves in the TSG Hoffenheim fixture, but still could not stop a beating. The attacker Branimir Hrgota got a match rating of 8.84 in that game. Hrgota scored one goal, signed up for two assists, hit three key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.

Preceding that game, the 0-4 loss visiting Borussia M'gladbach's place.

You'll want to know how Greuther managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found four similar matches resulting in zero away wins, one draw and three home wins.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Greuther as they have only managed to score 5 times from 7 away games in the league. Greuther can't defend away. 24 goals have been scored by the opposition in 7 matches, an average of more than three per game. You might want to look at the total goal statistics, which can be found on the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Numbers for the previous two meetings involving these two participants are: one win for Leverkusen, one draw and zero wins for SpVgg Greuther Fürth. Over 2,5 goals: zero times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

Bayer 04 LeverkusenP. Schick
P. Schick
8 goals
Bayer 04 LeverkusenF. Wirtz
F. Wirtz
5 goals
Bayer 04 LeverkusenM. Diaby
M. Diaby
5 goals

Bayer 04 Leverkusen missing players

SpVgg Greuther Fürth missing players

Bayer 04 Leverkusen SpVgg Greuther Fürth
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
13 6 1 Played P 1 7 13
7 3 1 Won W 0 0 0
3 0 0 Drew D 0 0 1
3 3 0 Lost L 1 7 12
28 10 1 Scored S 1 5 11
18 11 0 Conceded C 3 24 39
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
85% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 92%
62% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 77%
62% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 71% 54%
23% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 29% 23%
62% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 71% 69%
31% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
8% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 29% 31%
 
5.5 6.3 7 Corners for (avg) C F 2 3.4 4
4 4.2 7 Corners against (avg) C A 5 6.9 5.5
2.5 3 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.6 2.2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.3 12.3 11 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8.3 11.2
5.3 5.3 5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.7 3.4
41% 31% 20% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 26% 25%
 
15 16 21 Shots against (avg) S A 13 17.9 15.7
5.5 7 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 6 8.3 6.8
Key stats in Bundesliga this season:
  • All of SpVgg Greuther Fürth's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Bayer 04 Leverkusen have scored more than double the goals of SpVgg Greuther Fürth.
  • Bayer 04 Leverkusen haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have lost all their away matches so far.
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the fewest points (0) away in Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the most conceded goals (24) away in Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the most conceded goals (39) in Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the most conceded goals in the first half (15) in Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the most conceded goals in the second half (24) in Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the most dropped points from leading position (12) in Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the the worst goal difference (-19) away in Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth have the the worst goal difference (-28) in Bundesliga
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • SpVgg Greuther Fürth is in the worst form (0-0-6)

  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 13 10 1 2 42 13 7 6 0 1 23 5 6 4 1 1 19 8 29 31
2 Borussia Dortmund 13 10 0 3 33 19 7 7 0 0 21 9 6 3 0 3 12 10 14 30
3 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 13 7 3 3 28 18 6 3 0 3 10 11 7 4 3 0 18 7 10 24
4 Freiburg 13 6 4 3 19 13 6 3 2 1 10 6 7 3 2 2 9 7 6 22
5 TSG Hoffenheim 13 6 2 5 27 20 6 4 1 1 14 5 7 2 1 4 13 15 7 20
6 FC Union Berlin 13 5 5 3 20 19 7 4 2 1 10 7 6 1 3 2 10 12 1 20
7 Wolfsburg 13 6 2 5 15 17 7 3 1 3 6 9 6 3 1 2 9 8 -2 20
8 RB Leipzig 13 5 3 5 24 16 7 5 0 2 21 9 6 0 3 3 3 7 8 18
9 Mainz 05 13 5 3 5 17 14 7 3 3 1 11 5 6 2 0 4 6 9 3 18
10 Köln 13 4 6 3 22 22 7 4 3 0 17 9 6 0 3 3 5 13 0 18
11 Borussia M'gladbach 13 5 3 5 18 18 6 4 2 0 12 4 7 1 1 5 6 14 0 18
12 Eintracht Frankfurt 13 4 6 3 16 17 6 1 4 1 6 6 7 3 2 2 10 11 -1 18
13 Bochum 13 5 1 7 12 20 6 4 1 1 9 4 7 1 0 6 3 16 -8 16
14 Hertha BSC 13 4 2 7 13 27 6 2 2 2 7 7 7 2 0 5 6 20 -14 14
15 Stuttgart 13 3 4 6 18 23 7 3 1 3 14 11 6 0 3 3 4 12 -5 13
16 Augsburg 13 3 4 6 12 22 6 3 1 2 9 11 7 0 3 4 3 11 -10 13
17 Arminia Bielefeld 13 1 6 6 9 19 7 0 4 3 5 12 6 1 2 3 4 7 -10 9
18 SpVgg Greuther Fürth 13 0 1 12 11 39 6 0 1 5 6 15 7 0 0 7 5 24 -28 1

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