Freiburg Bayer Leverkusen Bundesliga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Freiburg have not won against Leverkusen in any of the last three seasons (D3, L3). Against teams that have been ever-presents in the Bundesliga. they have only also failed to beat Bayern and Dortmund in this period.
Across these six Bundesliga meetings over the last three seasons, Freiburg have scored just once against Leverkusen (Lucas Holer in November 2019).
Since 2011, Bayer have kept a clean sheet in 11 of their 18 BL games against Freiburg Match day 29 of 2019/20 (1-0 win. goal: Havertz) marked the first time that Leverkusen had won away at Freiburg since 2011. Michael Ballack scored the winner back then (1-0).
Freiburg drew 1-1 at Union last time out and are without a win in their last four Bun desliga games (D3, L1). Last season, they never went more than four games on the bounce without a win. SCF have lost just one of their last six BL games (4-0 in Dortmund).
Freiburg have dropped ajoint league-high six points from winning positions this season (same as Mainz). SCF last threw away more points after five Bundesliga games in 1999 (7).
Vicenzo Grifo scored Freiburg’s only goal against Union last time out. The Italian has had a hand in three of SCF‘s last four Bundesliga goals (2 goals.1 assist). while he has already scored half as many goals as he did across the whole of last season (4).
Freiburg have scored five of their six Bundesliga goals this season in the opening 34 minutes of matches (only Bayern have more, with 7).
Three of these goals have come in the opening 15 minutes, which is a league- high. Leverkusen have scored four of their six goals this season in the first 30 minutes. Leverkusen won 3-1 against Augsburg last time out. and are unbeaten after five games for the first time since 2009 (W2, D3).
The only other undefeated teams left in the league are Leipzig and Wolfsburg. Bayer 04 scored as many goals against Augsburg on matchday 5 as they did in their first four games this season combined (3).
They also have the second-best defence in the league. with just three goals conceded (Dortmund, 2). Freiburg are unbeaten in their last five Bundesliga home games (W3, D2). They last had a longer such run in 2017/18 (6 games).
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