- SV Elversberg and Bayer 04 Leverkusen have won their last two matches.
- Elversberg arrive here having scored 2.67 goals per home game and conceded 1.00 per home game in the current campaign.
Lively encounter at Ursapharm-Arena
SV Elversberg and Bayer 04 Leverkusen clash at the Ursapharm-Arena, Germany, on Saturday in what promises to be an entertaining affair. The hosts have won their last two matches, firstly beating FC Lorient 4-1 at home in a club friendly before taking MSV Duisburg to task in a 3-1 win on the road in the DFB Pokal 2026/2027 last time out.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen have also won their last two games, following a 1-2 away loss to Nottingham Forest in a preseason friendly, beating both Newcastle and SV Wehen Wiesbaden. This is a fixture that Leverkusen won 3-0 at home in the DFB Pokal 2024/2025 season.
Goals at both ends look likely
Vincent Wagner sets Elversberg up in a 4-2-3-1 formation, playing young, athletic, wide attacking players that can hurt the opposition in transition. The home side score plenty at their own ground, averaging 2.67 goals for per game and conceding just 1.00 per game across all current competitions.
Leverkusen will come here and try to lock Elversberg into a possession-based game as Carles Martínez prefers his side to play a possession-first, positional game, pressing the ball in numbers and building up in a controlled manner from the back. Patrik Schick is their greatest threat, the Czech international has four goals in the last five, which accounts for one third of all Leverkusen's goals in that time (12 total).
Elversberg can keep it close
Both Elversberg and Leverkusen arrive here in fine form, the hosts have six wins, two draws and two defeats from their last ten in all competitions, Leverkusen have seven wins, one draw and two defeats from their last ten. Over 2.5 match goals at 1.48 and both teams to score at 1.55 make more appeal than the 1.56.
The visitors have a much better record on the road this season, registering four wins and just two losses in six, they score 3.00 and concede 1.17 on average. Elversberg have won two of their three home games, but Leverkusen have four wins and just two losses on the road, so I'll go for the favourites, although Elversberg's form and counter-attacking threat could keep this one a lot closer than the odds suggest.
