RB Leipzig vs Arminia Bielefeld Bundesliga Match Preview or Key Statistics 📶
Leipzig and Bielefeld have faced each other just twice before, with both meetings taking place in Bundesliga 2 (2015/16). RBL won 1-0 on the road and drew 1-1 at home.
Since their debut Bundesliga season in 2016/17, Leipzig have played 16 games against newly-promoted sides and are unbeaten in these meetings (W13 D3). No other team has managed to go more than eight BL games without defeat against such sides (Nürnberg, 8).
Arminia Bielefeld’s 2-1 defeat to Leverkusen last time out was their sixth league loss in a row. No other Bundesliga side is currently on a longer losing run.
Bielefeld have just four points from eight games (W1 D1 L6). They’ve only been worse off at this stage once before: 1996/97 (3 points, D3 L5).
Leipzig have won their last four home games – they last managed this between November 2019 and January 2020 (5 wins in a row).
Bielefeld lost 5-0 against Union Berlin in their last away game. This was their heaviest defeat on the road since April 2012, when they lost 5-0 at Unterhaching in the 3. Liga.
Bielefeld have the worst attack in the league (5 goals, equal to Schalke) and have also attempted the fewest shots (61). Leipzig, however, have the best defence in the league (5 goals conceded, equal with Wolfsburg) and have taken the most shots (135).
Bielefeld are the only Bundesliga side yet to score in the first half. They have conceded 10 goals in the opening 45 minutes, with only Schalke letting in more (12).
This will be Julian Nagelsmann’s first meeting with Bielefeld, while Uwe Neuhaus has faced RBL once before: with Dresden in the first round of the 2016/17 DFB-Pokal (2-2 a.e.t., 5-4 win on pens.)
Leipzig’s Peter Gulacsi (76%) has the second best save percentage of all goalkeepers who have played a minimum of three games this Bundesliga season, surpassed only by Wolfsburg’s Koen Casteels (82%).
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