Fortuna Düsseldorf - Bayer Leverkusen

What a hype in Düsseldorf after their return to 1.Bundesliga and above all as they started very well into the season and showed that they more as able to competed with all the other teams in Bundesliga. They were on a very good way and stayed away from relegation trouble thus they could work very relaxed and no one put any pressure on them. After the winter break things changed a bit and they are on a huge downtrend, they are not able to win matches anymore and that is why they getting more and more in trouble and come under pressure. Of course they are some points ahead of Augsburg but it is getting closer and closer. Only their good home performances make some hopes for remaining in 1BL. If they do not want to get in trouble they have to collect points but better they have to win again. Their style of play is more designed for fast counter attacks and this is their weapon this season. This looks mostly like this that they are defending with almost all men, but if they have taken the ball they turn around to offensive quickly. Although they are more a fighter team as an elegant passing one. With Bodzek they miss an important midfielder worker.

Ups, what happened to Leverkusen? They were on 2^nd place at winter break but lost almost all their advantage and are down to third place now. Borussia Dortmund overcomes them very easy as they are not able to play such a good style as they did in first half of the season. Maybe many matches in EL had made them a bit tired. Now they had one week rest, almost all players were in training because not many on international duty therefore the Bayer Coaches could prepare very well for the big derby against Düsseldorf. This is sorely needed, because the last performance was not particularly good, and the results tend to be quite bad. With 5 matches without a win in a row they have to turn things around away from home indeed as soon as possible. With players like Castro, Schürrle, Kießling and …. they should be able to hurt the opponents anyway. Sure it depends all on the players fitness and these was not always the best in the past. Of course they had a lot of bad luck too but if they can continue their play it will change sooner or later.

Both teams should be huge motivated for this derby but I see some advantage for the away side. They have the much better players and they could prepare well as mentioned above. Of course, on the other side Düsseldorf is very good at home but in the past with a downtrend and they were not able to play their counter attacks to end and finished not often. 

Recommend Bet: Bayer Leverkusen AHC -0,5 @ 1,79 (3 Units)