On Saturday (6.30 p.m.) Gladbach will meet West rival Bayer Leverkusen in the Borussia Park on match day 2 of the Bundesliga.
Foal coach Gerardo Seoane before the game: “Leverkusen made good personnel decisions this summer. The team is very homogenous and played a very stable second half of the season last season. It’s difficult to create chances against them because on the one hand they have a good mix of physique, speed and technique, and on the other hand they seem very united as a team.”
The BILD facts about the game!
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VIEWERS
Gladbach’s home opener is almost sold out. In Borussia’s online ticket shop you can still find a few tickets from fans who are unable to attend on the day of the match and have put their tickets up for sale on the local secondary market.
BALANCE SHEET
In the last duel against Leverkusen, Gladbach took a point (2:2) – and thus ended a series of 6 defeats in a row against the Werkself. In the 82 Bundesliga games between the two rivals on the Rhine, 277 goals were scored, which makes an average of 3.4 goals per game. There has always been at least one goal in the last 36 Bundesliga games between the two teams, most recently in April 2004 it was 0-0 at Bökelberg.
In no other Bundesliga game have Borussia conceded as many goals as they did on October 30, 1998 in the 8-2 draw against Leverkusen. Of the 12 sending-offs in this game, only three were given to Gladbach.
Gladbach went without a win against Bayer from 1994 to 2010 in 26 Bundesliga games in a row. In Bundesliga history, only Bayern-Bremen has had a longer series of duels with just one winner (Bayern are currently unbeaten against Werder 28 times in a row.
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DUEL EXPERTS
Gerardo Seoane was the coach at Leverkusen from July 2021 to October 2022. After a 2-0 defeat in the Champions League at FC Porto, he finished 17th in the table. sacked in the Bundesliga. Christoph Kramer played 28 times in the Bundesliga for his youth club Bayer Leverkusen in 2015/16 (no goal) and returned to Gladbach after a year.
Patrick Herrmann scored six goals against Bayer – he has not scored as often against any other club. Florian Neuhaus played his first Bundesliga game against Leverkusen (on August 25, 2018). Tony Jantschke scored his first Bundesliga goal against Leverkusen (December 6, 2008).
Jonas Hofmann joined the Werkself before this season after seven and a half years with the Foals (184 Bundesliga games, 40 goals, 43 assists). Hofmann played Gladbach four times with Dortmund and Mainz and NEVER won (2 draws, 2 defeats). Granit Xhaka played in a foal jersey from 2012 to 2016. Nadiem Amiri scored five times against Borussia – more than against any other club. Edmond Tapsoba and Jeremie Frimpong each played three times away at Borussia Park – and they always won!
REFEREE
Referee will be Christian Dingert. His assistants on the lines are Benedikt Kempkes and Nikolai Kimmeyer, the 4th official is Tom Bauer. Felix Zwayer is sitting in the video cellar.
TV BROADCAST
Sky broadcasts the game, the commentator is Wolff Fuss. Sebastian Hellmann will be the moderator, with Lothar Matthäus and Julia Simic at his side. Nele Schenker will be on duty as a field reporter.
2023-08-26 09:56:27
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