Eintracht Frankfurt vs Bayer Leverkusen

Deutsche Bank Park is the venue as Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen go head-to-head in a heavyweight Bundesliga clash.

An emphatic 4-0 defeat at runaway leaders Bayern Munich put a decisive stop to Eintracht Frankfurt’s seven-game unbeaten run in the Bundesliga (W4, D3), compromising their hopes of securing a first top-four finish in Germany’s top flight this century. However, the hosts still boast a decent-looking four-point lead on fifth-placed Mainz ahead of the impending return to Deutsche Bank Park, where they’ve won three of their last four league outings (D1). Dino Toppmoller’s side netted 2+ goals in each victory. They will look to maintain that trend after scoring multiple goals in five consecutive top-flight home H2Hs against Leverkusen before a disastrous 5-1 defeat in last season’s corresponding fixture. However, four successive H2H losses hardly bode well. 

Visiting Bayer Leverkusen had shared the spoils with Bayern Munich and Wolfsburg in back-to-back 0-0 draws before seeing off Holstein Kiel 2-0 last weekend. However, it could be too little too late for their title hopes as they trail runaway leaders Bayern by eight points pre-round despite not losing a single Bundesliga match since August! On the bright side, Xabi Alonso’s charges have avoided defeat in a league-record 28 consecutive away games, including the abovementioned H2H rout last season. Connoisseurs of action-packed football will look forward to this encounter, considering 19 of the last 21 meetings between Frankfurt and Leverkusen in all competitions produced over 2.5 total goals.