Leverkusen is looking for another step towards the first historic title in the Bundesliga against Freiburg
League Plus – Freiburg will host Bayer Leverkusen at 5:30 pm Sunday, Mecca time, at the Schwarzwald Stadion in the twenty-sixth round of the German League.
The first round match between the two teams ended with a victory for Bayer Leverkusen by two goals to one, as Florian Wirtz and Jonas Hofmann scored for Leverkusen, and Freiburg’s goal came from Manuel Gold.
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Freiburg wants to overcome its European sorrows after bidding farewell to the Europa League last Thursday after losing against West Ham United in the second leg of the Round of 16 by five goals to nothing.
Freiburg clings to the hope of being in the European centers, as the team is ranked eighth with 33 points, 7 points behind the closest European positions. This season in the Bundesliga, it achieved 9 victories and 6 draws against 10 defeats, scoring 34 goals, and conceding 45 times.
On the other hand, Bayer Leverkusen enters the twenty-sixth round of the Bundesliga at the top of the competition with 67 points, 10 points behind Bayern Munich, and the team wants to move one step closer to its first historic title in the tournament. Leverkusen also enters the match ecstatic to have qualified for the Europa League quarter-finals thanks to two goals in the match. The killer time against Karabakh from Czech striker Patrik Cech turned the team’s deficit from (1-2) into a victory by three goals to two.
This season in the Bundesliga, Leverkusen achieved 21 victories and 4 draws, and is considered the only team in the five major leagues during the current season that has not suffered any defeat. It has scored 63 goals and conceded 16 times.
The two teams met 49 times, during which Bayer Leverkusen was superior with 22 victories compared to Freiburg’s 13 wins and 14 draws. Leverkusen scored 82 goals compared to Freiburg’s 56 goals.
The lineup of the two teams in the match is expected to be as follows:
-Freiburg: Atopoulou, Sildelia, Gunter, Goldie, Gunther, Kittel, Hoeffler, Doan, Grifo, Salai, Gregoritsch.
-Bayer Leverkusen: Hradecky, Hinsabe, Tah, Tapsoba, Grimaldo, Xhaka, Palacios, Tila, Wirtz, Frimpong, Cech.
