Leaders trying to stay unbeaten

Bayer Leverkusen will look to take care of their unbeaten report for the 2023-24 season once they play host to Eintracht Frankfurt on Sunday.

Bayer Leverkusen

Having gained 11 and drawn three of their 14 league video games, Leverkusen head into Sunday’s contest with a four-point lead over second-placed Bayern Munich, who’ve a recreation in hand over die Werkself.

Whereas Leverkusen are having fun with a memorable season, they’ve needed to accept 1-1 attracts of their final two league video games towards tough opposition. Victor Boniface scored a 79th-minute equaliser to assist his aspect take a degree off Borussia Dortmund, earlier than Florian Wirtz netted a leveller in final Sunday’s away assembly with Stuttgart to take care of Leverkusen’s unbeaten report.

Xabi Alonso’s aspect have been again in motion in midweek, as they cruised to a 5-1 win over Molde of their last recreation of the Europa League group stage. After producing a dominant efficiency on Wednesday, die Werkself will now flip their consideration to their last two league matches of 2023, with Frankfurt and Bochum set to go to the BayArena over the following few days.

Having gained 11 of their 12 aggressive dwelling matches this season, Leverkusen shall be assured about their possibilities of claiming most factors on Sunday.

Crew Information

Leverkusen have reported no recent damage considerations, however they’re nonetheless unable to name upon Arthur as a result of an damage challenge.

Eintracht Frankfurt

Frankfurt can have the chance to report a second straight league win after they clinched a shocking 5-1 victory over Bayern final weekend. Omar Marmoush, Junior Dina Ebimbe and Hugo Larsson all discovered the web within the first half to provide die Adler a 3-1 lead on the break. Dina Ebimbe netted his second inside 5 minutes of the restart, earlier than Ansgar Knauff received on the scoresheet to wrap up a dominant win.

Whereas that efficiency shall be remembered for a very long time, the end result represents their sole victory of their final seven aggressive matches, whereas they’ve misplaced 5 of their earlier six video games. Their most up-to-date defeat occurred on Thursday once they have been overwhelmed 2-0 by Aberdeen within the Europa Convention League.

Though that they had already secured a spot within the knockout rounds, they might have been disenchanted with a end result that represented a 3rd consecutive away defeat in all competitions. If they’re to finish their poor run of away kind, Frankfurt might want to beat Leverkusen on the BayArena for the primary time since December 2013.

Crew Information

Kristijan Jakic, Timothy Chandler and Sebastian Rode are all dominated out with calf accidents, whereas Ebimbe, Farès Chaïbi and Ellyes Skhiri are all doubts. As for Marmoush, he’ll serve a one-match suspension for an accumulation of yellow playing cards.

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