Dortmund vs Bayer Leverkusen prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2024-04-20 15:30.
[p]With matters of the Bundesliga title settled, Borussia Dortmund are focused on their intense duel with RB Leipzig for fourth spot, whom they sit below by virtue of goal difference only. They may well not even need that to re-qualify for the UEFA Champions League after following up victory over Gladbach with one of Dortmund’s most famous ever European nights, a 4-2 win over Atlético Madrid which secured passage to the final four of the competition. [/p]
[p]With the confidence gained from that clash, Dortmund may be quietly confident of becoming the first team to defeat Bayer Leverkusen’s Bundesliga invincibles in league action this season after winning seven of the last eight home H2Hs. The fact that Dortmund enter this round in fifth can partly be explained by the fact that they’ve lost all three of their home league games against sides starting above them, conceding eight times in the process, which doesn’t exactly come as a good omen before this outing.[/p]
[p]It was party time in Leverkusen last weekend as they secured their maiden Bundesliga title with five games to spare as boss Xabi Alonso proclaimed that he still wants to win both the DFB Pokal and the Europa League this term to a rambunctious BayArena crowd. They’re certainly in with a chance as they progressed to a European semi-final in midweek, whilst they currently boast an ongoing club record ten-game winning run in the Bundesliga. [/p]
[p]Another ongoing club record is Leverkusen’s seven-game winning run of away league games, yet Dortmund are the club which the visitors hold their longest current winless league H2H run against (D1, L2). With this arguably being the toughest test left in the way of an unprecedented unbeaten Bundesliga campaign, they may well need to score a handful of goals in the process after conceding five times in their three trips to top-five teams this season (W1, D2). [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Marcel Sabitzer helped Dortmund to their first Champions League semi-final in over a decade, with his goal and two assists making it five goal contributions in his last two games (G3, A2). Trying to outdo him will be Leverkusen’s Victor Boniface – six of his last eight goals were team openers including the equaliser in the reverse H2H.  [/p]
[p]Hot stat: 69 of Leverkusen’s all-time Bundesliga record of 79 points after 29 games were picked up when scoring first (W23, D0, L0). [/p]