Our experts offer you the best predictions, odds and analysis for Bayer Leverkusen vs Borussia Dortmund in the Bundesliga 12/03/2023
Bayer Leverkusen has become this season’s big revelation team, transforming into an overwhelming machine capable of leading the Bundesliga while crushing its more modest rivals in the Europa League and DFB-Pokal. Their next victim, a Borussia Dortmund that has already suffered against the strong teams in the German championship.
- Final result: Bayer Leverkusen – 1.61 inches bet365
- Total Goals: Over 3.5 – 1.90 inches bet365
- Will score or assist: Álex Grimaldo – 2.37 inches bet365
All odds courtesy of bet365, correct at time of publication and subject to change
Next please!
What Xabi Alonso has achieved with Bayer Leverkusen this season seems from another planet. The numbers are clear: 19 wins, one draw and zero wins in all competitions this season, with 64 goals scored and just 14 goals conceded in those twenty games. Looking at their home games, they have a total of eight wins, with thirty goals scored and six conceded. Too greedy not to bet juicy odds on his victory this Sunday.
If the reward for their victory is attractive, it is because the rival is not an easy team: a Borussia Dortmund that, although in the Bundesliga it seems one step below Leverkusen and Bayern Munich, in the Champions League it leads the ‘Group of Death’ . ‘ for Paris Saint-Germain, Newcastle United and AC Milan, who they defeated 1-3 at the San Siro on Tuesday.
What makes us lean towards the local victory in this case, apart from the figures presented, is that Dortmund exactly stumbled against the other two rivals in the Top 4 of the Bundesliga: 0-2 against Bayern at the beginning of November and 2 – 1 at VfB Stuttgart a week later. Without forgetting that the wear and tear of going through San Siro this week is not the same as going to the Häcken Stadium.
A date to enjoy the goals
It is striking that six of the eight matches played in the BayArena this season have ended with four or more goals, partly because Leverkusen has always scored more than one goal at home and more than two in seven of them. If we add to that Dortmund’s ten goals in the last four games, it is logical to see a big score.
One of the key players in the ecstasy that Leverkusen is experiencing is Álex Grimaldo, converted into a deadly weapon on the left wing. The 28-year-old Valencian winger and Barça youth player has scored nine goals and six assists this season, actively contributing to at least one goal for his team in nine of the 12 league games.
Grimaldo, booked against Häcken on Thursday to arrive fresh for this event, has scored or scored (or both) three days in a row and this was also the first goal for his team during the complicated visit to Bayern in mid-September, for which has many chances to be a decisive figure again next Sunday.
Source: Goal