National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Rot-Weiss Essen or Bayer Leverkusen that keep their silverware dream alive.
It’s a hectic schedule for the away team, as they were in action only three days ago in the Bundesliga. That game, against RB Leipzig, was also an away game. It's a tiring schedule for Bayer Leverkusen.
Rot-Weiss Essen form and stats
Action has already taken place for Rot-Weiss Essen in DFB Pokal as they have defeated Fortuna Dusseldorf and Arminia Bielefeld to reach the 3rd Round.In general it's been a long time since Rot-Weiss tasted defeat here at Stadion Essen, as they have taken at least one point from their last 13 home games in the league. Rot-Weiss has a nice streak going on as they have played 26 consecutive leaguegames without losing (regardless of home/away). They are keen to extend their tally, a streak that began after the Rodinghausen defeat 367 days ago.
Rot-Weiss's last game was hosting Bonner SC and winning 2-0. 0-0 away at Wiedenbruck before that.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Rot-Weiss, as the Regionalliga: West home game vs Borussia Dortmund II is only four days away.
Bayer Leverkusen form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Eintracht Norderstedt and Eintracht Frankfurt in order to reach 3rd Round of DFB Pokal. Last season their DFB Pokal adventure ended in the final.5-2-3 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Bayer Leverkusen in their Bundesliga matches away. Three might be a magic number, but there's been little wizardry in Leverkusen's last three away games as they have all been lost.
Bayer Leverkusen play their second straight away game, having lost the previous one 0-1 to RB Leipzig. Preceding that, the 0-1 home loss versus Wolfsburg.
As mentioned earlier, Bayer Leverkusen will not be satisfied unless they get a comfortable victory in this game. Performing as huge favourites away from home has earlier resulted in two wins (two by two or more goals winning margin), zero draws and zero surprising defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Stuttgart in just four days.
Leverkusen are not goal shy away from home in the league, finding the net 16 times in 10 away games so far. It's not easy to score on Leverkusen as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games.
Head 2 Head
Top Goalscorers
  S. Engelmann 20 goals |   L. Alario 8 goals | C. Harenbrock 5 goals |
Rot-Weiss Essen missing players
Bayer Leverkusen missing players
| Rot-Weiss Essen | Bayer Leverkusen | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 13 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 19 | 12 | Won | W | 7 | 15 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Drew | D | 1 | 4 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 4 | 6 | ||
| 54 | 34 | Scored | S | 23 | 57 | ||
| 15 | 10 | Conceded | C | 13 | 28 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 96% | ||
| 84% | 85% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 76% | ||
| 40% | 54% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 58% | 64% | ||
| 28% | 46% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 44% | ||
| 20% | 38% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 25% | 32% | ||
| 48% | 54% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 64% | ||
| 52% | 46% | Clean Sheets | C S | 25% | 20% | ||
| 4% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 25% | 20% | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | ||
| 1.1 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.4 | 1.6 | ||
| 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 5.5 | 6.4 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.9 | 13.9 | ||
| 2.5 | 3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 5.3 | 5.8 | ||
| 64% | 67% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 36% | 39% | ||
| 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 | 19 | 14 | 3 | 2 | 57 | 26 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 34 | 12 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 14 | 31 | 45 |
| 2 | RB Leipzig | 19 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 32 | 17 | 10 | 8 | 1 | 1 | 19 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 15 | 38 |
| 3 | Wolfsburg | 19 | 9 | 8 | 2 | 30 | 19 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 17 | 8 | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 35 |
| 4 | Eintracht Frankfurt | 19 | 8 | 9 | 2 | 38 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 21 | 17 | 10 | 33 |
| 5 | Bayer Leverkusen | 19 | 9 | 5 | 5 | 32 | 19 | 9 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 8 | 13 | 32 |
| 6 | Borussia Dortmund | 19 | 10 | 2 | 7 | 38 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 4 | 18 | 15 | 11 | 32 |
| 7 | Borussia M'gladbach | 19 | 8 | 8 | 3 | 36 | 29 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 18 | 18 | 7 | 32 |
| 8 | Union Berlin | 19 | 7 | 8 | 4 | 34 | 24 | 10 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 21 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 29 |
| 9 | Freiburg | 19 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 33 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 22 | 15 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 17 | 1 | 27 |
| 10 | Stuttgart | 19 | 6 | 7 | 6 | 35 | 29 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 13 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 22 | 14 | 6 | 25 |
| 11 | Werder Bremen | 19 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 24 | 27 | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 14 | -3 | 22 |
| 12 | Hoffenheim | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 29 | 34 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 14 | 21 | -5 | 22 |
| 13 | Augsburg | 19 | 6 | 4 | 9 | 20 | 30 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 17 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 13 | -10 | 22 |
| 14 | Köln | 19 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 32 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 19 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 13 | -14 | 18 |
| 15 | Hertha BSC | 19 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 25 | 35 | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 19 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 14 | 16 | -10 | 17 |
| 16 | Arminia Bielefeld | 19 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 15 | 32 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 16 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 16 | -17 | 17 |
| 17 | Mainz 05 | 19 | 2 | 4 | 13 | 18 | 40 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 19 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -22 | 10 |
| 18 | Schalke 04 | 19 | 1 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 49 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 30 | -34 | 8 |