None of the last 15 Bundesliga games between Bayer 04 Leverkusen and VfL Wolfsburg ended in a home win – only once in BL history has a pair remained without a home win in more duels in a row: from 2001 to 2016 there were 19 games between 1. FC Cologne and VfB Stuttgart.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen has been unbeaten in 24 Bundesliga games (W20 D4) and thus set the club record on the last matchday (previously from August 2009 to February 2010 under Jupp Heynckes). With a point win against the Wolves, the new club record awaits. In addition, B04 would become the second team after FC Bayern in 2013/14 to remain unbeaten in the first 25 BL season games (Bayern the first 28).
With 64 points from 24 games, Bayer 04 Leverkusen is playing the second best season in Bundesliga history, only FC Bayern had more points in 2013/14 at the time of comparison (68). With their 21st BL win, B04 could already equal their season record in the upper house ( most recently 2001/02). The lead in second place is now 10 points, something no team has lost so late in the season since the introduction of the three-point rule.
For the first time in the Bundesliga, VfL Wolfsburg remained winless in the first seven games of the second half of the season (5D 2L), and in total the Lower Saxony team has been without a win for nine games (6D 3L) – the longest negative streak for the Wolves since November 2021 to January 2022 (also 9 games). , under Florian Kohfeldt). In 2024, only Darmstadt scored fewer points (3) than the Wolves (6) – their opponents Leverkusen, however, scored the most points in the league (22).
With just 25 points after 24 games, VfL Wolfsburg is playing its weakest Bundesliga season – only in 2017/18 there were only 25 points at the same time, when the Wolves went into relegation at the end of the season, in which they held their own against Holstein Kiel .
VfL Wolfsburg, along with Hoffenheim and Stuttgart, are the only teams in the league that have not yet been able to keep a clean slate in 2024. Opponent Leverkusen has already kept five clean sheets in 2024, the most in the league together with BVB – Bayer 04’s four goals conceded in 2024 are a league record.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen have recorded the most high ball wins of all teams in the current Bundesliga season (256, 10.7 per game) – opponents Wolfsburg, on the other hand, have already conceded five goals after high ball wins against themselves in 2023/24 – only bottom team Darmstadt 98 have more in the league ( 6).
Bayer 04 Leverkusen coach Xabi Alonso scored 107 to 109 points in his 50th Bundesliga game as coach, only Hansi Flick (125) and Pep Guardiola (132) scored more points in their first 50 BL games as coach. His counterpart, Niko Kovac, collected 64 points in his first 50 BL games on the sidelines.
Wolfsburg’s Joakim Mæhle will be missing due to a yellow card suspension, while Bayer 04 Leverkusen’s Jeremie Frimpong also recently received his fifth yellow card. The Dane completed the most sprints within the team this BL season (29 per game, at least 10 games), Frimpong is even ahead in the league (34 per game). Both also scored one goal each on the last BL matchday.
Wolfsburg’s Niko Kovac suffered six defeats as coach in the Bundesliga against Bayer 04 Leverkusen and only scored an average of 0.8 points per game against the Werkself; he only performed weaker against Bayern (L7, 0.1 points). Kovac did not concede more goals against any team (20, like against BVB).