Bayer Leverkusen vs B. Monchengladbach prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2025-01-17 17:30.
[p]Bayer Leverkusen will look to maintain the pressure on league leaders Bayern Munich when they host Borussia Mönchengladbach this weekend. A 1-0 win over Mainz on Tuesday evening made it ten successive victories across all competitions, while in the Bundesliga, Xabi Alonso’s side have incredibly dropped points in only eight matches (W20, D6, L2) at the BayArena from March 2023 onwards![/p]
[p]You’d have to go back even further, to November 2019 (W8, D2) to find the last time Leverkusen were beaten by Gladbach and as they are in the quarter finals of the DFB Pokal, as well as sitting in fourth place of the UEFA Champions League, they could yet emulate last season’s famous return of a domestic league and cup double with just a UEFA Europa League final defeat preventing the treble.[/p]
[p]Gladbach are on track to improve on their 2023/24 efforts which saw them avoid the relegation play-off by only one point. They will begin this gameweek in 11th place, with the prospect of a European adventure next season seeming much more likely than a return to the second tier for the first time since 2007/08, despite opening their 2025 Bundesliga account with successive defeats.[/p]
[p]Manager Gerardo Seoane was particularly unhappy with the final half hour in Tuesday evening’s 5-1 defeat to Wolfsburg when the Foals conceded four goals, prompting Seoane to declare he saw “mental weaknesses” in his side. He’ll need to fix that issue quickly if the visitors are to have a chance of preventing a third successive Bundesliga defeat, something they haven’t experienced since December 2021.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Florian Wirtz scored twice in a 3-2 H2H victory in August, with those goals adding to an already fine H2H record which has seen the attacking midfielder provide four assists and avoid defeat in all eight meetings (W6, D2). Alassane Pléa got his side’s only assist in Tuesday’s heavy loss and will be targeting a goal contribution for the third successive away game after finding the net in December’s win at Hoffenheim. [/p]
[p]Hot stat: Gladbach have not scored in the first half during any of the last eight H2Hs.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Tom Penn[/i][/p]