St. Pauli vs Bayer Leverkusen Live Stream, Predictions (Apr 20)

📊 Form Guide

St. Pauli

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St. Pauli will want to continue from where they left off last time out with a 1-2 Bundesliga victory against Holstein Kiel.

In that game, St. Pauli managed 48% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. The only player to score for St. Pauli was Danel Sinani (34'). Holstein Kiel got 6 shots on goal with 2 on target. Alexander Bernhardsson (21') and Max Geschwill (92' Own goal) scored for Holstein Kiel.

It’s been all too rare in recent games that St. Pauli have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that St. Pauli have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 8 goals during that time. We will have to find out whether or not that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

Coming into this meeting, St. Pauli have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Bayer Leverkusen

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In their previous game, Bayer Leverkusen drew 0-0 in the Bundesliga match with Union Berlin.

In that match, Bayer Leverkusen had 75% possession and 16 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Union Berlin got 7 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.

Throughout their six latest matches, Xabi Alonso's Bayer Leverkusen have turned their attacks into goals 9 times, earning them the goals per game average of 1.5.

Heading into this contest, Bayer Leverkusen are undefeated in their previous 31 league matches away from home. An amazing run.

🤜🤛 Head to head

The previous league meeting between these sides was Bundesliga match day 13 on 07/12/2024 when it finished Bayer Leverkusen 2-1 St. Pauli.

That time, Bayer Leverkusen had 63% possession and 6 attempts at goal with 2 on target. The goals were scored by Florian Wirtz (6') and Jonathan Tah (21').

St. Pauli got 12 attempts on goal with 4 on target. Morgan Guilavogui (84') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Matthias Jöllenbeck.

📋 Team News: St. Pauli

Jackson Irvine (Foot injury), James Sands (Internal ligament tear), Sören Ahlers (Fitness), Karol Mets (Patellar tendon problems), Simon Zoller (muscular problems) and Sascha Burchert (surgery) aren’t available for St. Pauli boss Alexander Blessin.

💡 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that St. Pauli have it within them to put a goal past this Bayer Leverkusen outfit, however a single goal is unlikely to be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re going for a narrow 1-2 winning margin for Bayer Leverkusen when all is said and done. It should be a decent one.

📚 ⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?

Looking at the bookies’ prices in the 90 minute result market, victory for St. Pauli can be had for 5.25, going for a drawn result is 3.8 and staking on a victory for Bayer Leverkusen gets you 1.67. Those are the best of the bets offered right now.

Lucas Pereira, 02:08 19/04/2025