The 10th round Bundesliga match between Bochum and Bayer will take place on November 9 at the Vonovia Ruhrstadion. Bochum vs Bayer: prediction and betting odds, statistics.
Probable line-ups for the Bochum vs Bayer match
Bochum (4-5-1): Patrick Drewes – Maximilian Wittek, Ivan Ordets, Erhan Masovic, Felix Passlack – Anthony Losilla, Ibrahima Sissoko, Danny De Wit, Moritz Broschinski, Kosi Miyoshi – Philipp Hofmann.
Bayer (3-4-3): Lukas Hradecky – Edmond Tapsoba, Jonathan Tah, Piero Hincapie – Nordi Mukiele, Robert Andrich, Granit Xhaka, Alejandro Grimaldo – Jeremie Frimpong, Florian Wirtz, Victor Boniface.
The line-ups for each team are from their last match in this tournament.
Bochum
The team suffered its 5th consecutive defeat in the league, being thrashed by Eintracht in the previous round with a score of 2:7. This losing streak is the longest among all Bundesliga clubs. Bochum's winless streak in the German championship has risen to 11 matches (1 draw, 10 losses). Bochum remains the only club in the current Bundesliga season without a win and is at the bottom of the table, trailing the safe 15th place by 7 points. The team also has the league's least reliable defense, conceding 29 goals.
After the fiasco in the last round, the club's management appointed a new head coach, Dieter Hecking, replacing interim head coach Markus Feldhoff at the helm of Bochum.
- The club has not kept a clean sheet in 25 Bundesliga matches, conceding at least twice in the last 8 games.
- At least 4 goals have been scored in Bochum's last 6 league matches.
- The team has scored in 24 of their last 27 home games in Germany's top league.
Bayer
Leverkusen played out a goalless draw with Stuttgart in their previous Bundesliga encounter. As a result, Bayer has drawn 4 of their last 5 matches in this tournament (1 win). Despite frequently dropping points, the team continues to stay in the Champions League zone of the German championship standings, occupying the 4th spot. However, the gap to the leader has grown to 7 points. Away from home this Bundesliga season, Leverkusen has not lost (2 wins, 2 draws), and their unbeaten away streak in this tournament is an impressive 21 matches (16 wins, 5 draws).
- There has been a goal exchange in 9 of Bayer's last 10 Bundesliga matches.
- Leverkusen has not scored more than 2 goals in their last 5 league matches.
- The club has failed to keep a clean sheet in 6 of their last 7 away matches in the Bundesliga.
Bochum vs Bayer: Match Prediction
The hosts cannot seem to climb out of the hole they've fallen into, and their results are deteriorating. Bochum played their last two Bundesliga matches under interim head coach Markus Feldhoff and lost them with a combined score of 2:12. On Monday, the club's management appointed a new head coach, Dieter Hecking, formerly of Nürnberg. However, I don't think this will save the hosts from another defeat, given the strength of the upcoming opponent.
Leverkusen has dropped many points in recent German championship matches and has fallen significantly behind Bayern Munich in the standings. Therefore, anything less than a victory is unlikely to be in their plans. Moreover, Bayer has been performing superbly away from home, winning 15 of their last 18 Bundesliga matches (3 draws). Furthermore, Leverkusen has won 5 of the last 6 head-to-head league encounters against Bochum without conceding a goal (1 draw). And in the goalless draw, they did not concede.
I believe that Leverkusen, who are performing brilliantly on the road, will be able to defeat a crisis-stricken opponent "to nil". Additionally, Bochum is one of the worst attacking teams in the current championship, having only scored 9 times, with only St. Pauli scoring fewer (7). Also, in 3 of their last 5 home matches in this tournament, the team failed to score. Therefore, my prediction is a "Bayer Clean Sheet Victory" at odds of .
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