Freiburg vs Bayer Leverkusen Prediction & Betting Tips (17 March)

In contact to qualify for the Champions League until the end of the season last year, SC Friborg did not manage to do as well this year, seeing itself quite clearly left behind by the top 4. However, the Forêt club Noire is not wandering without a goal at the end of the year and he could well land a ticket for a new European competition. Indeed, it is in 8th position in the ranking with the same number of points as Hoffenheim, 7th, whose place could well become a qualifier for the Conference League. With confidence in recent weeks, the Brazilians from Brigsau were able to hold Bayern to a 2-2 draw before knocking down Bochum 1-2 last weekend. In the Europa League, they challenged West Ham on Thursday after winning their 1/8 final first leg at home last week 1-0. But Christian Streich's men were unable to preserve this court and they lost heavily at the London Stadium 5-0, thus seeing their European journey come to an end. On the other hand, we can estimate without getting too excited that Bayer Leverkusen should put an end to Bayern Munich's hegemony over German football by winning the first title in its history.

The 11 de l'Usine impresses this year by still not having lost a single match in all competitions. Better yet, he is still 10 points ahead in the standings over the Bavarians who are in 2nd position. On a cloud, Xabi Alonso's men have won their last 6 league matches, against Mainz 2-1, Cologne 0-2 and Wolfsburg notably 2-0. In C3, Leverkusen came close to conceding its first defeat before snatching a draw from Qarabag 10 days ago 2-2. On Thursday, they did it again against this same team since they lost at the start of added time before completely reversing the situation to achieve another 3-2 success.

Unsurprisingly, long-term absentees Kyereh and Rosenfelder, replacement Schmidt and Austrian international Lienhart will not be available to try to bring down the leader this weekend. In addition to this, midfielder Eggestein is suspended for an accumulation of yellow cards, he who opened the scoring last weekend.

Up front, striker Höler (7 goals) and very good Italian Grifo (7 goals, 7 assists in the league, 4 goals in C3) still share the lead in the scorers rankings for this team even if the Austrian Gregoritsch comes back quite strong after scoring his 5th goal of the season against Bochum.