Football betting preview: RB Leipzig favourites when Augsburg visits

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Competition: Germany Bundesliga
Date: Sat 21.December
Match begins: 14:30 (UTC)
Venue: Red Bull Arena (42558 seats)

It's advantage RB Leipzig so far with their 1st position in the Bundesliga table, welcoming Augsburg who are placed 10th.

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.

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RB Leipzig form and stats

RB Leipzig, who have the most scored goals (45) in Bundesliga, have performed here at Red Bull Arena this season with 4 wins from 7 Bundesliga matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 2 games and lost 1. There’s a good atmosphere here at Red Bull Arena after three straight home wins.

RB Leipzig manager J. Nagelsmann and his team return home after a 3-3 draw away versus Borussia Dortmund (placed 4th) in the Bundesliga. Before that match, a win away at Fortuna Düsseldorf.

Trouble was brewing at the score 0-2 against Borussia Dortmund last time out, but a goal from P. Schick completed a comeback to a draw result for RB Leipzig.

RB Leipzig are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (20 goals in 7 games). 8 goals have been conceded.

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Augsburg form and stats

2 wins, 3 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Augsburg playing as the away team in the Bundesliga this season.

Augsburg are travelling after their nice 3-0 home win in the Bundesliga against Fortuna Düsseldorf (placed 17th). Prior to that result Augsburg won their away game at Hoffenheim. The scoreline was 4-2.

As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Augsburg's match history for similar games we find one match. The home team won 1 of these as expected, 1 of them by at least two goals. Augsburg managed 0 draws and 0 surprise wins.

Augsburg are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 11 away goals from 8 games (in the league). Augsburg have conceded 17 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last nine matches): RB Leipzig 3 wins, 3 draws and Augsburg 3 victories. As for goals, 3 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

RB LeipzigT. Werner
T. Werner
18 goals
AugsburgF. Niederlechner
F. Niederlechner
7 goals
RB LeipzigM. Sabitzer
M. Sabitzer
6 goals

RB Leipzig missing players

Augsburg missing players

RB Leipzig Augsburg
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
16 7 3 Played P 3 8 16
10 4 2 Won W 0 2 6
4 2 1 Drew D 1 3 5
2 1 0 Lost L 2 3 5
45 20 6 Scored S 3 11 27
19 8 3 Conceded C 11 17 28
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
100% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 75% 88%
81% 71% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 50% 69%
56% 57% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 50% 44%
31% 29% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 67% 50% 31%
75% 86% 100% BTTS BTTS 100% 75% 69%
25% 14% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 25%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 12% 12%
 
5.4 6 5 Corners For (avg) C F 3.7 4 3.6
4.6 3.9 3.3 Corners Against (avg) C A 6.3 6 5.4
1.5 1.6 2 Yellow Cards (avg) Y C 1 1.6 2.1
1 0 0 Red Cards R C 0 2 2
 
255 115 48 Total Shots T S 30 81 171
112 52 22 Shots on Target S O 5 28 64
40% 38% 27% Goal Efficiency G E 60% 39% 42%
Key stats in Bundesliga this season:
  • All of RB Leipzig's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • RB Leipzig has the fewest conceded goals (8) at home
  • RB Leipzig has the most scored goals (45)
  • RB Leipzig has the most scored goals in the first half (23)
  • RB Leipzig has the the best goal difference (+26)
  • RB Leipzig have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • RB Leipzig have scored in all their matches so far.
  • RB Leipzig haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 RB Leipzig 16 10 4 2 45 19 7 4 2 1 20 8 9 6 2 1 25 11 26 34
2 Borussia M'gladbach 16 11 1 4 33 18 9 7 1 1 23 11 7 4 0 3 10 7 15 34
3 Bayern München 16 9 3 4 44 22 8 5 1 2 26 9 8 4 2 2 18 13 22 30
4 Borussia Dortmund 16 8 6 2 40 22 8 5 3 0 26 9 8 3 3 2 14 13 18 30
5 Schalke 04 16 8 5 3 27 19 8 4 3 1 12 9 8 4 2 2 15 10 8 29
6 Freiburg 16 7 4 5 25 21 8 4 2 2 12 9 8 3 2 3 13 12 4 25
7 Bayer Leverkusen 16 7 4 5 22 21 9 3 4 2 12 10 7 4 0 3 10 11 1 25
8 Wolfsburg 16 6 6 4 18 16 9 3 4 2 10 10 7 3 2 2 8 6 2 24
9 Hoffenheim 16 7 3 6 23 27 8 3 1 4 12 18 8 4 2 2 11 9 -4 24
10 Augsburg 16 6 5 5 27 28 8 4 2 2 16 11 8 2 3 3 11 17 -1 23
11 Union Berlin 16 6 2 8 19 22 9 5 0 4 12 11 7 1 2 4 7 11 -3 20
12 Eintracht Frankfurt 16 5 3 8 26 27 9 4 3 2 19 14 7 1 0 6 7 13 -1 18
13 Hertha BSC 16 5 3 8 22 29 7 3 0 4 11 14 9 2 3 4 11 15 -7 18
14 Mainz 05 16 6 0 10 25 38 7 3 0 4 10 14 9 3 0 6 15 24 -13 18
15 Köln 16 4 2 10 18 32 7 2 1 4 8 11 9 2 1 6 10 21 -14 14
16 Werder Bremen 16 3 5 8 23 40 8 1 2 5 8 19 8 2 3 3 15 21 -17 14
17 Fortuna Düsseldorf 16 3 3 10 16 35 7 2 1 4 6 13 9 1 2 6 10 22 -19 12
18 Paderborn 16 2 3 11 18 35 8 1 1 6 10 18 8 1 2 5 8 17 -17 9

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