1.FC Nürnberg - Bayer Leverkusen

Nürnberg played a good season so far despite the lose of Coach Hecking to Wolfsburg under the season but Wiesinger and Reutershahn made a good job and hold Nürnberg in 1.Bundesliga. Of course they are not saved yet but they are almost or on a good way. Overall they have 38 Points and should be without any worries in the upcoming three matches. If they can get one or two points out of these matches it is enough. After a long run from unbeaten matches they are on a huge downtrend now. They lost three in a row and the team looked very weak above all in Derby against Fürth and also in Hoffenheim. No motivation or attitude visible in these matches. Maybe the standard was to high and some expected to much above all their fans. This can be also an indicator and the performances under pressure are getting worse. They have to concentrate them on the upcoming matches and put all their effort in it to get the needed points as soon as possible.

Leverkusen played a season without any worries so far and they are close so safe third place who is very important for them anyway. They are many points ahead of Schalke and it depends how Schalke plays on Friday if they can reach third place without doing anything. But overall they need one point, this can be enough for them and their season is done. Their form was good in the past and they got the points they need although they had an incredible bad run away from home where they could not win much, only the derby against Düsseldorf 4-1. In all the other matches they were not able to get much. Despite this bad form away from home they should be able to bring a good performance on the pitch but always in their head that maybe one point is enough. Why should they invest much more, as always a horse jumps just as high as it needs to reach the goals. Similar with Bayer Leverkusen here.

I mentioned it already, maybe one point is enough for both and they reach their target this season. So it can be that this match ends with a draw. According to Nürnberg’s good home stats and Leverkusen’s weak away with less wins it can be that a draw is more than possible. Of course Leverkusen has much more class in their rows as Nürnberg but they can compensate this with team spirit and commitment. So the HC on home side looks very interesting for me in this case.