On Monday, starting with 19:30, the Bremen – Leverkusen match will be played, within the 26th round of the Bundesliga, 2019/2020 edition. Leverkusen have won only one match in the Bundesliga with Bremen, out of the previous 4 matches. In the round, the two drew on the field of “aspirins”, score 2-2. Previously, Bremen had won an important match, score 3-1 in March 2019, also in Leverkusen.
The “horror” period crossed by Bremen, which lost the last 6 matches played at home, without scoring in 5 of them. The previous 3 teams that managed this counter-performance were relegated from the Bundesliga (Hansa Rostock, Tasmania Berlin and Hannover). Bremen is on the 17th place in the ranking, with 18 points, only two points above the last ranked one, Paderborn. Florian Kohfeldt’s students have nothing left in the final stages and have to go out to play. Veteran Claudio Pizarro has scored 12 goals in 18 meetings with Leverkusen, but has failed to score in the 15 matches he has played in this season.
On the other hand, Leverkusen are in extraordinary form before the suspension of the season, obtaining 19 points from the matches played in 2020. The team prepared by Peter Bosz has the third attack (22 goals) in 2020 and received only nine goals in return . Leverkusen is now on the 5th place in the ranking, with 47 points, with a goal difference of 45-30, just two lengths away from Monchengladbach, which occupies the 4th place, qualifying in the Champions League. In this season’s away matches, the “aspirins” have won 7 of the 12 away matches, and in general, they have defeated both Bayern and Dortmund.
-Only Bayern (22) and Dortmund (21) have won more points in 2020 than Leverkusen (19);
-Leverkusen has proved its worth and will aim for the 3 points in Bremen. The “greens”, however, have nothing to lose and must evolve bravely.
Bremen: Pavlenka – Veljkovic, Vogt, Moisander (c) – Gebre Selassie, M. Eggestein, Sahin, Friedl – Bittencourt, Selke, Rashica
Absent: Augustinsson, Klaassen, Pizarro
Coach: Florian Kohfeldt
Leverkusen: Hradecky – Tah, S. Bender, Tapsoba – L. Bender (c), Baumgartlinger, Aranguiz, Wendell – Bellarabi, Diaby – Havertz
Absent: –
Coach: Peter Bosz
PREDICTION: Bayer Leverkusen to win @ 1,65
