Hoffenheim vs RB Leipzig prediction: GERMANY: Bundesliga betting tips on match 2024-11-22 14:30.
[p]First reaching the Bundesliga in 2008, Hoffenheim have never been relegated from Germany’s top flight, but that record appears to be under genuine threat this term. Now ten games into the season, Die Kraichgauer have won just two league matches (D3, L5), one of which came on the opening weekend! Now without a goal in three league encounters, this is their second-worst start ever to a Bundesliga campaign.[/p]
[p]Sitting just a point above the bottom three, the club have already pressed the panic button in dismissing Pellegrino Matarazzo after a goalless draw with Augsburg prior to the international break. Poaching Christian Ilzer from Austrian Bundesliga champions Sturm Graz as their new head coach, Hoffenheim will now hope to benefit from a ‘new-manager bounce’, knowing that points are needed quickly to avoid entering the relegation zone.[/p]
[p]Ilzer though has the tough job of trying to topple an RB Leipzig side that sit second in the Bundesliga, having recorded seven clean sheets in their first ten games and conceded just five goals, consequently boasting the best defensive record in the division. Marco Rose’s men are actually winless in two (D1, L1), but a return of 21 points from the opening ten matches (W6, D3, L1) is the club’s joint second-best start to a top-flight campaign.[/p]
[p]Die Roten Bullen also have the joint second-best away record in Germany’s top flight this term as things stand, having won three of their first five such matches on the road (D1, L1). Defeat in Dortmund before the international break ended a ten-game unbeaten league run on their travels (W7, D3), but they will hope for more away-day glory this weekend at the PreZero Arena, where they have lost only once since the start of 2018 (W4, D1).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Marius Bülter has won just one of eight previous career meetings with RB Leipzig (D1, L6), with his side on the day conceding 3+ goals on five of those occasions to rub salt in the wounds. Conversely, Amadou Haidara is unbeaten in his six H2Hs with Hoffenheim (W4, D2), helping to record a clean sheet in three of those matches. [/p]
[p]Hot streak: Despite their terrific start to the campaign, RB Leipzig have netted 3+ goals just three times in the league this term.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Ben Olawumi[/i][/p]