📏 Form Guide

Bayer Leverkusen

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Bayer Leverkusen will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 3-1 Bundesliga defeat last time out to Stuttgart.

In that match, Bayer Leverkusen managed 51% possession and 6 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. The scorer for Bayer Leverkusen was García (1'). Stuttgart had 20 shots at goal with 9 of them on target. Ermedin Demirović (5'), Maximilian Mittelstädt (45') and Deniz Undav (58') scored for Stuttgart.

It’s been all too rare in recent times that Bayer Leverkusen haven’t conceded. The reality is that Bayer Leverkusen have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, leaking 9 goals during that time.

Heading into this fixture, Bayer Leverkusen are unbeaten in the league by Hamburg in their previous 3 games.

Hamburg

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Hamburg will come into the game after a 3-2 Bundesliga win versus Freiburg in their last match.

In that game, Hamburg managed 47% possession and 14 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. For Hamburg, the goals were scored by Bakery Jatta (14'), Luka Vušković (64') and Fábio Baldé (67'). Freiburg had 5 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Igor Matanović (16', 87') was the scorer for Freiburg.

Showing their penchant for fruitful matches, the back of the net has been hit 21 times in the prior 6 matches in which Hamburg have played, giving a mean average of 3.5 goals each clash. Their opponents have got 13 from this total. We will just have to see if that trend can be continued on into this next match.

Ahead of this clash, Hamburg haven't won against Bayer Leverkusen in games played away from home for the previous 9 league matches. A very poor set of away results, indeed.

👥 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 13/03/2016 tells us that Bayer Leverkusen have won 5 of these & Hamburg 1, with the tally of draws standing at 0.

An aggregate of 13 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 10 for Leverkusen and 3 for Hamburg. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.17.

The last league fixture featuring the two was Bundesliga match day 17 on 04/03/2026 which ended up with the score at Hamburg 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen.

On that day, Hamburg had 37% possession and 10 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.

For their opponents, Bayer Leverkusen had 14 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Christian Kofane (73') scored.

The referee was Sören Storks.

📰 Team News: Bayer Leverkusen

In our view, Leverkusen should kick off with a 3-4-2-1 system for the game, utilising Mark Flekken, Jarell Quansah, Robert Andrich, Edmond Tapsoba, Montrell Culbreath, Aleix Garcia, Exequiel Palacios, Alejandro Grimaldo, Ibrahim Maza, Ernest Poku and Patrik Schick.

🗞️ Team News: Hamburg

From our viewpoint, Hamburg might utilise a 3-4-3 system by sending out D. Heuer Fernandes, Nicolas Capaldo, Luka Vuskovic, Warmed Omari, Bakery Jatta, Nicolai Remberg, Albert Sambi Lokonga, Albert Groenbaek, Fabio Vieira, Otto Stange and R. Koenigsdoerffer.

💡 Prediction

Our assessment is that Bayer Leverkusen can and should dominate on the ball and be rewarded with decent chances.

At the other end, Hamburg could well struggle to get a goal of their own but we do think it’s quite likely that they will be scoring as well.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a decent 3-1 winning margin for Bayer Leverkusen at the end of the match.

Victor Martins, 13:04 16/05/2026