Augsburg vs Bayer Leverkusen

Underperforming Augsburg will be aiming to open their scoring account for the 2021/22 Bundesliga campaign when they meet Bayer Leverkusen at WWK Arena this weekend.

Widely considered one of the likeliest relegation candidates this season, Augsburg have struggled to defy that label on the opening two weekends, as they’ve yet to score in the Bundesliga this term (D1, L1). Although they head into proceedings as the only team in Germany’s top-flight yet to find the net in 2020/21, the ‘Fuggerstädter’ can draw confidence from bagging 2+ goals in four of their final five home league matches to complete last season. Although Augsburg supporters remain hopeful of a quick turnaround here, an underwhelming top-flight H2H record of zero wins from 20 Bundesliga meetings with Leverkusen (D7, L13) is hardly inspiring. Additionally, the hosts have conceded an average of 2.7 goals per game across their ten home top-flight clashes against this opposition. Encouragingly, though, their most recent such encounter yielded a 1-1 stalemate.

In the meantime, Bayer Leverkusen picked themselves up from a sluggish 1-1 draw away to Union Berlin on the opening weekend, racking up an eye-catching 4-0 home triumph over Borussia Monchengladbach last time out. It’s been 21 years since Leverkusen last conceded fewer goals after the first two matches of a new Bundesliga season, which is inspiring compared to the fact they’ve managed just a single clean sheet in ten top-flight trips to Augsburg so far. However, ‘Die Werkself’ come into this fixture in the midst of a dismal away form, having failed to win any of their last six away Bundesliga games (D3, L3). A noteworthy takeaway from that six-game sequence is the Leverkusen drew a blank in four outings while scoring precisely once in the other two.