This is the duel between regional league bavaria team SpVgg Unterhaching and 1.Bundesliga team Bayer Leverkusen. On paper it should be a clear thing for the team from Bayer. Maybe some remember the game between Haching and Leverkusen when Leverkusen had the chance to win the title in Bundesliga but they lost there due to an own goal from Ballack and also the title. It was one of the biggest disaster for the club Leverkusen and of course they do not want to talk and remember on this day. Time has changed huge and with Unterhaching falling down to Regional League to hit rock bottom.
The team from Unterhaching is a very young team and they must sell always their top players due to financial problems. Therefore they can only count on young and unknown players. The situation is worse there after they were relegated in summer form 3.Bundesliga where they played for several years now. They have to build up a new team for the Regional League and to begin it was not very easy for them to find into the Season. They run behind huge but at the end they were close to the top but the form in the last 2-3 games were average and they lost some space again. In Cup they had two excellent days in beating Ingolstadt who plays 1.Bundesliga and RB Leipzig who plays 2.Bundesliga. But the last game against Leipzig was more a mistake form Rangnick who rested a lot of players and play with a B-Team there because he underestimates this team what was a big disaster for them. Of course the young team is always very hot against this big teams to show that they are able for more and maybe some players hopes to get a contact at a better club who has more budget. Nevertheless their last games was on 2.12.2015 against Bayern Munich Ama. 1-1 and since this game they have no real match praxis because their league is in winter break. Since 2 weeks they train only and maybe played some friendlies and they do not know where they stand at the moment what makes it much more difficult against a team who is in form and have a weekly rhythm.
Bayer Leverkusen has a lot to play for above after knock out form CL stage after playing only 1-1 against a Barcelona B-Team. This was the chance for them and you never get a better opportunity against such a team to win, but they failed. Some days later it was a real fireworks from them against high flying Gladbach who had not change and they overcome them with 5-0. Key player of this game was Kießling who scored twice and gave one assist. Normally Kies is only on bench as Coach Schmidt counts not on him and he maybe should be sold in winter break but after this performance they thing about it. He moved only into the starting lineup because Brandt was not ready for this game and this was exactly what Bayer Leverkusen has need after having a hard time. They are looking forward to this Cup game and coming to Haching with much better mood and self confidence. The team knows that they have to win this and they should not take this game to serious what the two games before from Unterhaching showed.
Overall this is a class to high for Unterhaching and they should lose this above all with the bad preparation without any matches and also the weak shape they had in the last league games. Leverkusen coming to them as absolute favorite and they should overcome them as they did in last Round also against an Regional League Team Viktoria Köln 6-0. We expect the same here, it may need some time but after Leverkusen open the scoring it is up to them how much. Above all in the end of the game we expect that Haching has some conditional problems what is another advantage for Leverkusen.
PICK: Bayer Leverkusen AHC -2 @ 2,08 (3 Units / Flat Stake)
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