Bayer Leverkusen vs PSV Eindhoven

Bayer Leverkusen extended their unbeaten run against Dutch sides in European competition to eight (W4 D4), with the most recent coming in the UEFA Champions League last season, in a 4-0 win over Feyenoord in the league phase (September 2024).

PSV are now without a win away to a German side in European competition in 18 games (D4 L14) since beating Eintracht Braunschweig 2-1 in the UEFA Cup in December 1977.

PSV only directed one shot on target in the game, last doing so in the UEFA Champions League in September 2018 against Barcelona, 27 games ago.

Bayer Leverkusen and PSV have met twice previously in European competition, with both coming in the first round of the 1994-95 UEFA Cup. After a 5-4 home win for Leverkusen in the first leg, the second leg in the Netherlands ended 0-0.

Bayer Leverkusen are unbeaten in their seven meetings with Dutch sides in European competition (W4 D3), with the most recent coming in the UEFA Champions League last season, in a 4-0 win over Feyenoord in the league phase (September 2024).

PSV will be looking for their first win away to a German side in European competition since December 1977 (2-1 v Eintracht Braunschweig in the UEFA Cup). Since that victory, they are winless in 17 such trips, suffering defeats in 14 of those (D3).

PSV were beaten by Union Saint-Gilloise in this season’s UEFA Champions League opener (1-3), while they haven’t lost consecutive matches in the group/league phase of the competition since November 2018 (v Tottenham and Barcelona).

Bayer Leverkusen have only lost two of their last 11 matches in the group/league phase of the UEFA Champions League (W5 D4), including coming back from behind on two occasions to avoid defeat at Copenhagen on MD1 of the current campaign (2-2).