Borussia Mönchengladbach vs Bayer Leverkusen: predictions and betting tips on the Bundesliga match on January 22, 2023
On January 22, Borussia-Park (Mönchengladbach) will host the match of the 16th round of the German Bundesliga, in which Borussia Mönchengladbach will compete with Bayer Leverkusen. The battle will start at 17:30 CET.
Borussia Mönchengladbach
The club has recently played in the Champions League and even reached the play-offs there. After the departure of Marco Rose, there was no adequate replacement for him – however, the team hadn’t made a good finish even under the rule of that coach, the only difference was in the fact that Dortmund, which lured the specialist in the spring, was blamed for the higher mentioned failure. “The foals” were able to close the top ten teams in the previous season of the Bundesliga. Daniel Farke has been working here since the summer, but the unsuccessful coach of Krasnodar is far from the excellence – taking into account 15 matches, his wards have got only 6 victories and 5 defeats. However, there are good chances to compete for at least the 6th or the 7th position, especially considering that the team won twice out of 3 previous matches in November, including the battle with Dortmund. But how has the club overcome a long pause, and how has the persistent hunt for Sommer by Bayern Munich reflected on its game?
Bayer Leverkusen
The team came back in the previous season, becoming one of the leaders of German football once again. The debut year of Gerardo Seoane in Germany turned out to be more than excellent – he and his wards took the 3rd place in a pretty confident way... But in the autumn the management said goodbye to the Swiss specialist, and, to tell the truth, that decision was not a surprise: “the Pharmacists” abruptly lost their game. The new coach, Xabi Alonso, who had been a legendary midfielder, did not bring stability. He started with a 4-0 score in the match against an outsider of the elite division, Schalke. Then, it was not possible to win for 6 matches in a row in all tournaments. As a result, having a lot of troubles, the team beat Atletico, winning the run for the 3rd place in the group of the Champions League – this time, the German club will continue its European season in the Europa League. The Bundesliga also picked up pace in November – it is reasonable to mention the successive victories over Union Berlin, Koln and Stuttgart. After the beginning of the pause, one can only guess what performance has been trained by the novice mentor.
The statistics of head-to-head matches
Borussia Monchengladbach won its last head-to-head match in 2019. After that, taking into account 5 previous games, Bayer became the only winner.
Predictions
Bookmakers consider the chances of the opponents to be approximately equal. There will be a rather spectacular struggle, which will bring “total: over 2.5” (odd: 1.64).