Bayer Leverkusen vs Marseille Prediction

Leverkusen's scoring run against Marseille's inconsistency

Leverkusen's last 20 matches, spanning Bundesliga, cup and Europa League games plus some friendlies, show 13 wins, two draws and five defeats. They've scored 48 and conceded just 20 in that span, which points to a side finding the net regularly.

Bayer Leverkusen: 20 completed matches; Marseille: 20 completed matches.

Bayer Leverkusen

20 matches

Win

65% 13 / 20

Draw

10% 2 / 20

Loss

25% 5 / 20

Scored

48

Conceded

20

Difference

+28

Marseille

20 matches

Win

40% 8 / 20

Draw

5% 1 / 20

Loss

55% 11 / 20

Scored

26

Conceded

31

Difference

-5

Marseille's equivalent sample is shakier: eight wins, one draw and 11 losses, with 26 scored against 31 conceded. More losses than wins and a leaky defence suggest a team short on consistency right now.

Worth remembering that both samples mix competitions and friendlies, so they're a guide to current form rather than a guarantee of league-level quality.

Comparative Team Statistics: Bayer Leverkusen vs Marseille

Just one previous meeting

These two have only met once in the data available, a friendly back in August 2023 in which Leverkusen won 2-1 at Marseille's ground.

That's a single pre-season game from over three years ago, so it tells us very little about how either side will actually play this time.

Contrasting starts in the league phase

In this Europa League campaign, Leverkusen sit 8th after one match, having won 2-0 and picked up three points. Marseille are down in 32nd after their own opener, a 4-1 defeat that left them pointless.

It's only one game each, so these positions could move a long way by the time they face off, but it's a clear early contrast in how the campaign has started for each side.

Marseille's rough opening result lines up with their wider away-form struggles noted elsewhere.

What could shape this one

Leverkusen go into this with strong recent scoring form and a tidy opening result in this competition. Marseille arrive with more losses than wins lately and a defence that's been breached often.

The gap to kickoff matters here too. A month is enough time for form to change, injuries to crop up or momentum to shift either way, so what we're seeing now is a snapshot rather than a fixed picture.