RB Leipzig lost five of the last six Bundesliga duels against Union Berlin (1W) – however, Leipzig won the last duel in the first half of the season 3-0 in Berlin. RB lost the last two BL home games against Köpenicker 1-2.
RB Leipzig has been winless in four Bundesliga games and has lost all of its last three games – three defeats in a row are a negative BL club record for Leipzig and had previously only happened to RB in November/December 2021 under Jesse Marsch, who was on leave after the third defeat . RB is the only BL team that has not won a point this calendar year.
With four points from nine away games, Union is the weakest away team this Bundesliga season (W1 D1 L7). The Unioners’ last away win came in their first game of the season away from home in August against newly promoted Darmstadt (4-1). This means that the Iron Men have been waiting for an away win for eight games (1D 7L) – of all current Bundesliga clubs only Mainz has been waiting longer (14 games).
Since Urs Fischer’s departure, 1. FC Union Berlin has only lost two of the seven Bundesliga games (W3 D2), previously there had been nine defeats in a row. In the six BL games under Nenad Bjelica there have already been more wins (3) than in the first 12 games of the season (2)
Union Berlin only conceded one goal in the last four Bundesliga games (0-1 in Munich) and kept three clean sheets – in the first 14 BL games of the season, Union didn’t keep a clean sheet once. No other team has conceded so few goals in its last four BL games. RB Leipzig, on the other hand, conceded 10 goals in the last four games – no team more.
RB Leipzig has already suffered six defeats in the first 19 games of this Bundesliga season (W10 D3) – only in the 2021/22 season did RB suffer more defeats in the upper house (7 – 2017/18 also 6).
RB Leipzig recently conceded five goals in a Bundesliga game for the first time since April 2018 (2-5 against Hoffenheim) in the 2-5 away defeat in Stuttgart – there have never been more. RB has also been waiting for a clean sheet in 14 competitive games, the longest streak since being promoted to BL in 2016.
Union Berlin has scored eight headed goals this Bundesliga season – only FC Bayern (11) has surpassed that in the league. Union scored 44% of its goals with its head (8 out of 18) – a league best. RB Leipzig, on the other hand, conceded eight headers – only FSV Mainz 05 conceded more (10).
RB Leipzig’s Loïs Openda recently scored his 13th Bundesliga goal of the season in the defeat in Stuttgart (2-5) – this is the BL season record for a Belgian player and has only been achieved by Emile Mpenza for Schalke in 2000/01. In the current season, only Bayern players Leroy Sané (118) and Harry Kane (99) were directly involved in more shots than Openda (97).
RB Leipzig’s Mohamed Simakan is suspended due to his 5th yellow card from the game at VfB Stuttgart (2-5). The Frenchman was one of three Leipzig outfield players not to miss a Bundesliga game so far this season and won the second most duels (97) among all RB players, after Xavi (104).