Open game expected at BayArena: Bayer Leverkusen vs Eintracht Frankfurt preview

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Competition: Germany Bundesliga
Competition: Sat 24.April
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: BayArena (30210 seats)

Bayer Leverkusen and Eintracht Frankfurt are both riding high in the Bundesliga with their 6th and 4th positions respectively. Expect a great game!

Insights:
  • Bayer Leverkusen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Eintracht Frankfurt have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

It's no vacation for neither Leverkusen nor Eintracht Frankfurt as both were in action only a few days ago. Expect some tired legs on the pitch and/or possibly some changes to the lineups.

Eintracht Frankfurt are still fighting for top positions and their benefits.

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Bayer Leverkusen form and stats

Overall Bundesliga stats at home this season for Bayer Leverkusen are 7-4-4 (wins-draw-losses). The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at BayArena.

The Leverkusen goalkeeper Lukas Hradecky is looking to record 90 more "clean sheet" minutes as his team have now played 189 minutes without conceding a goal in the Bundesliga.

No payout for Leverkusen in their previous match, an away game at Bayern München that ended in defeat 0-2. Before that game, the 3-0 home victory against Köln.

This is expected to be a close game, with Bayer Leverkusen perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Bayer Leverkusen as a small favourite), we find one game. Leverkusen has won zero of these, drawn one and lost zero.

Leverkusen can score goals in their home matches. After 15 league matches they have found the net 30 times. 20 goals have been conceded.

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Eintracht Frankfurt form and stats

Playing away, Eintracht Frankfurt have won 6 games, drawn 5 and suffered 4 defeats in the Bundesliga this season.

Eintracht's last game ended in a draw, the home match versus Augsburg that finished 0-0. Preceding that game, the 0-4 loss visiting Borussia M'gladbach's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Eintracht Frankfurt in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Eintracht, two draws and two defeats.

Eintracht Frankfurt has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 28 goals from 15 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Eintracht struggle to build an impenetrable defensive wall in away matches with a total of 26 goals conceded from these games.

Head 2 Head

This is the result when the teams met earlier this season; Eintracht Frankfurt - Leverkusen 2-1. Last ten meetings between the teams: Leverkusen won six, Eintracht Frankfurt won four and zero draws. nine games with over 2,5 goals, one match with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Eintracht FrankfurtA. Valente Silva
A. Valente Silva
23 goals
Bayer LeverkusenL. Alario
L. Alario
10 goals
LeverkusenP. Schick
P. Schick
9 goals

Bayer Leverkusen missing players

Eintracht Frankfurt missing players

Bayer Leverkusen Eintracht Frankfurt
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
30 15 4 Played P 4 15 30
13 7 1 Won W 1 6 14
8 4 1 Drew D 1 5 12
9 4 2 Lost L 2 4 4
48 30 4 Scored S 4 28 59
34 20 5 Conceded C 9 26 44
90% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 97%
73% 87% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 97%
57% 73% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 75% 73% 63%
23% 33% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 53% 43%
13% 20% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 20% 20%
57% 80% 75% BTTS BTTS 75% 73% 80%
27% 13% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 13% 13%
27% 13% 25% Failed to Score F T 25% 13% 10%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.8 1.9 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.7 2.4
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
12.7 14.2 13.2 Shots (avg) S ( 8.5 12.3 12.1
4.6 5.1 5.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 4.3 4.8
35% 39% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 33% 44% 41%
Key stats in Bundesliga this season:
  • All of Eintracht Frankfurt's away-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Bayer Leverkusen have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Eintracht Frankfurt have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Eintracht Frankfurt haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

  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 29 21 5 3 83 38 14 10 4 0 51 19 15 11 1 3 32 19 45 68
2 RB Leipzig 30 18 7 5 53 25 15 10 3 2 25 11 15 8 4 3 28 14 28 61
3 Wolfsburg 29 15 9 5 51 29 14 9 4 1 27 11 15 6 5 4 24 18 22 54
4 Eintracht Frankfurt 29 14 11 4 59 44 14 8 6 0 31 18 15 6 5 4 28 26 15 53
5 Borussia Dortmund 29 15 4 10 62 42 14 8 2 4 32 17 15 7 2 6 30 25 20 49
6 Bayer Leverkusen 29 13 8 8 48 32 15 7 4 4 30 20 14 6 4 4 18 12 16 47
7 Borussia M'gladbach 29 11 10 8 52 43 15 7 4 4 26 17 14 4 6 4 26 26 9 43
8 Union Berlin 29 10 13 6 44 35 15 6 8 1 27 16 14 4 5 5 17 19 9 43
9 Freiburg 29 11 7 11 44 42 15 7 4 4 30 20 14 4 3 7 14 22 2 40
10 Stuttgart 29 10 9 10 51 46 14 4 6 4 24 20 15 6 3 6 27 26 5 39
11 Augsburg 29 9 6 14 29 42 15 5 4 6 17 22 14 4 2 8 12 20 -13 33
12 Hoffenheim 29 8 8 13 41 47 14 5 3 6 23 19 15 3 5 7 18 28 -6 32
13 Werder Bremen 29 7 9 13 33 47 14 3 4 7 14 23 15 4 5 6 19 24 -14 30
14 Mainz 05 28 7 7 14 30 48 14 3 3 8 12 21 14 4 4 6 18 27 -18 28
15 Arminia Bielefeld 29 7 6 16 22 46 15 5 1 9 11 22 14 2 5 7 11 24 -24 27
16 Hertha BSC 28 6 8 14 34 48 14 4 3 7 18 26 14 2 5 7 16 22 -14 26
17 Köln 30 6 8 16 29 54 15 2 5 8 18 27 15 4 3 8 11 27 -25 26
18 Schalke 04 29 2 7 20 18 75 15 2 3 10 9 29 14 0 4 10 9 46 -57 13

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The Bundesliga is the top league of the football pyramid in Germany. It is the football league with the highest average stadium attendance worldwide. Bundesliga has 18 teams who play from August to May, a total of 306 fixtures to decide a final league table and the German championship.