Match facts ahead of #B04BMG

Everything to know ahead of the Foals’ upcoming match against Bayer 04 Leverkusen at 18:30 CEST on Saturday.

Supporters

• This will be Bayer Leverkusen’s first home fixture of the season, and their first opportunity to play in front of their fans again. The current regulations set by the local government in North Rhine-Westphalia allow up to 15,105 supporters to attend the game at the BayArena (photo: DFL/Getty/Schulze).

Head-to-head record

• Borussia and Bayer Leverkusen have faced off 78 times in the Bundesliga. Bayer have come away victorious on 30 occasions, with the Foals picking up 22 wins (D26).
• None of the last 13 encounters between the sides have ended in a draw; Bayer Leverkusen have won each of the last three contests, following three successive Borussia victories prior to that. The 1-1 draw in Leverkusen on 12th December 2014 was the last time both sides came away with a point.
• This match has always delivered on the goal-scoring front, with an average of 3.35 goals per game. The Werkself have scored 146 goals in this fixture, to Borussia’s 115. The last goalless draw between the two was in April 2004 at the Bökelbergstadion.
• The match against Bayer 04 in the first half of last season may still very much be in the memory of many supporters. Despite leading on two occasions, the Foals lost 4-3, in a game marked by Valentino Lazaro’s stoppage-time scorpion kick strike, which was eventually voted as 2020’s Goal of the Year.

Statistics – presented by UNIBET

• Patrick Hermann, who made his 300th Bundesliga appearance against FC Bayern München last time out, has scored six goals vs. Bayer Leverkusen, more than he has against any other team in the top flight.
• Only FC Bayern (826) and Borussia Dortmund (673) have picked up more Bundesliga points than Bayer Leverkusen (571) and Borussia Mönchengladbach (545) in the last ten years.
• Alassane Plea is one of just two Borussia players to score the first goal of a Bundesliga season, the other being Henning Jensen in 1975.
• Leverkusen are unbeaten in each of their last four Bundesliga home matches, picking up ten from a possible 12 points under Hannes Wolf, Gerard Seoane’s predecessor.
• Gerard Seoane took over from Adi Hütter at Young Boys in 2018 and continued the good work done by the Austrian. Young Boys’ league title under Hütter was followed up by three further league titles under Seoane.

Officials

• The DFB will confirm the officials on the day of the match, due to the Coronavirus measures in place.

Social media

• Fans can follow the match on social media using the hashtag #B04BMG or by following Borussia’s English-language accounts on Twitter and Facebook.