Borussia Dortmund vs Bayer Leverkusen Preview

Borussia Dortmund vs Bayer Leverkusen

Competition – German Bundesliga

Stadium – SIGNAL IDUNA PARK

Date: 6th February 2021

Kick-off time – 14:30 GMT

Second-placed Dortmund will look to keep the pressure on Bayern Munich in their race for the title when they welcome third-placed Bayer Leverkusen to Signal Iduna Park.

The hosts are sitting six points behind the leaders and come into this game on the back of a 3-2 win over Sebastian Hoeness’ Hoffenheim. Goals from Erling Braut Haaland, captain Marco Reus and an own goal from Hoffenheim’s left-back David Raum ensured victory for Marco Rose’s Borussia Dortmund.

With that win, they closed the gap between them and Bayern Munich to six points and maintained their position as the second-best team in Bundesliga.

‘Die Schwarzgelben’ have the best home record in the German top flight this season. They have picked up 27 of a possible 30 points at the Westfalenstadion. No side has scored more than the 31 goals they have plundered at home this season.

They will be confident of continuing their imperious form at home.

Meanwhile, Bayer Leverkusen come into this tie on the back of a 5-1 league win over Markus Weinzierl’s Augsburg. A hat-trick from French winger Moussa Diaby and goals from winger Karim Bellarabi and Argentine striker Lucas Alario sealed the win for Gerardo Seoane’s side.

That win pushed them into third place in the league standings, eight points behind their hosts and they are just two points ahead of Freiburg who are currently occupying fifth place.

They will now face their North Rhine-Westphalia counterparts looking to pick up a win that will ensure they remain within the top four after this round of games.

However, ‘Die Werkself’ have a poor defencive record this season. They are conceding 1.6 goals per league outing this season and have not kept a clean sheet in their last ten games in all competitions.

Given that they have the division’s second-best away record this campaign (W5, D3, L2), they will fancy their chances of getting a win in this game.

Other fixtures taking place this week in the German Bundesliga:

November 22, 2024
Bayern Munich 20:30 Augsburg 1907
November 23, 2024
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 15:30 RB Leipzig
Wolfsburg 15:30 Union Berlin
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 15:30 Heidenheim
Borussia Dortmund 15:30 SC Freiburg
Stuttgart 15:30 VFL Bochum
Eintracht Frankfurt 18:30 Werder Bremen
November 24, 2024
Holstein Kiel 15:30 Mainz
Borussia Mönchengladbach 17:30 FC St. Pauli
November 29, 2024
FC St. Pauli 20:30 Holstein Kiel
November 30, 2024
RB Leipzig 15:30 Wolfsburg
Werder Bremen 15:30 Stuttgart
SC Freiburg 15:30 Borussia Mönchengladbach
Augsburg 1907 15:30 VFL Bochum
Union Berlin 15:30 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Borussia Dortmund 18:30 Bayern Munich
December 1, 2024
Mainz 15:30 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
Heidenheim 17:30 Eintracht Frankfurt
December 6, 2024
Stuttgart 20:30 Union Berlin

German Bundesliga Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Bayern Munich 10 8 2 0 33 7 +26 26
2 RB Leipzig 10 6 3 1 15 5 +10 21
3 Eintracht Frankfurt 10 6 2 2 26 16 +10 20
4 Bayer 04 Leverkusen 10 4 5 1 21 16 +5 17
5 SC Freiburg 10 5 2 3 13 11 +2 17
6 Union Berlin 10 4 4 2 9 8 +1 16
7 Borussia Dortmund 10 5 1 4 18 18 +0 16
8 Werder Bremen 10 4 3 3 17 21 -4 15
9 Borussia Mönchengladbach 10 4 2 4 15 14 +1 14
10 Mainz 10 3 4 3 15 14 +1 13
11 Stuttgart 10 3 4 3 19 19 +0 13
12 Wolfsburg 10 3 3 4 19 18 +1 12
13 Augsburg 1907 10 3 3 4 13 20 -7 12
14 Heidenheim 10 3 1 6 13 15 -2 10
15 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 10 2 3 5 13 19 -6 9
16 FC St. Pauli 10 2 2 6 7 12 -5 8
17 Holstein Kiel 10 1 2 7 12 25 -13 5
18 VFL Bochum 10 0 2 8 10 30 -20 2

German Bundesliga Results

November 10, 2024
Heidenheim 1 - 3 Wolfsburg
Stuttgart 2 - 3 Eintracht Frankfurt
Augsburg 1907 0 - 0 TSG 1899 Hoffenheim
November 9, 2024
RB Leipzig 0 - 0 Borussia Mönchengladbach
FC St. Pauli 0 - 1 Bayern Munich
VFL Bochum 1 - 1 Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Mainz 3 - 1 Borussia Dortmund
Werder Bremen 2 - 1 Holstein Kiel
November 8, 2024
Union Berlin 0 - 0 SC Freiburg
November 3, 2024
Borussia Mönchengladbach 4 - 1 Werder Bremen
SC Freiburg 0 - 0 Mainz
November 2, 2024
Borussia Dortmund 2 - 1 RB Leipzig
Holstein Kiel 1 - 0 Heidenheim
Wolfsburg 1 - 1 Augsburg 1907
TSG 1899 Hoffenheim 0 - 2 FC St. Pauli
Eintracht Frankfurt 7 - 2 VFL Bochum
Bayern Munich 3 - 0 Union Berlin
November 1, 2024
Bayer 04 Leverkusen 0 - 0 Stuttgart

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