Freiburg vs Leverkusen: Bayer Leverkusen is scheduled to play their first pre-season warm-up match against Freiburg on Friday.
LIVE LINK to watch Freiburg vs Leverkusen:
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Match Details:
Teams: Freiburg vs Bayer Leverkusen
Date: Friday 23rd July, 2021
Time: 05:30 PM IST
Venue: Gernot Langes Stadium
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⏰ 14:00 CEST
🆚 SC Freiburg
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MATCH PREVIEW:
Bayer Leverkusen begin their pre-season friendlies with a fixture against Freiburg on Friday.
Leverkusen finished 6th last season in the Bundesliga and made the UEL spots theirs. This season they are expected to put in a better show and use the UEL competition to get back into the top 4 and the Champions league as well.
On the other hand, Freiburg finished 10th in the table and have been in decent form towards the end of the campaign.
Freiburg has already played 2 warm-up matches with a win and draw respectively against Saarbrucken and Vaduz.
The H2H record is in favour of Leverkusen 10-4 from the last 21 matches with 7 draws.
Both sides met last in the Bundesliga last season where Freiburg beat Leverkusen 2-1.
Goals from Demirovic and Holer secured the points. Bailey scored for Leverkusen but could not help his side complete the fightback.
Line-ups
Freiburg:
Flekken, Gunter, Gulde, Lienhart, Kubler, Grifo, Hofler, Santamaria, Schmid, Haberer and Petersen.
Bayer Leverkusen:
Hradecky, Wendell, Bender, Dragovic, Tah, Aranguiz, Demirbay, Gray, Wirtz, Bellarabi and Paulinho.
