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Red Bull Arena - Leipzig
RB Leipzig have lost just one of their six competitive meetings with Hamburger SV (W4 D1), a 0-3 home defeat in February 2017, though HSV are the only current Bundesliga side against whom Leipzig are still winless at home in the Bundesliga (D1 L1) – with their sole home victory coming in a 4-0 DFB-Pokal win in October 2022, the sides’ most recent encounter.
RB Leipzig are unbeaten in all 37 of their Bundesliga matches against newly-promoted teams (W32 D5) – no other club in the competition's history has recorded a longer such streak. RB Leipzig beat the other newly promoted team, 1. FC Köln, 3-1 in their last home match.
RB Leipzig has picked up 13 points in its first six Bundesliga matches, only last season having picked up more points after six BL games (14). They have won both of their BL games at home this season – now the Saxons could start the season with three BL home wins for the first time in five years (6 in 2020-21 under Julian Nagelsmann).
Hamburger SV have picked up eight points from their first six Bundesliga matches this season, only once before in their eight previous Bundesliga seasons have they had a better start to a campaign (ten points in 2015-16). They are also undefeated in their last three Bundesliga games (W2 D1), something they only managed once throughout their last relegation season in 2017-18.
Hamburger SV has already kept three clean sheets this Bundesliga season (like Leipzig and Stuttgart), only FC Bayern and Borussia Dortmund have more (4 each). HSV has only managed as many clean sheets after six BL games twice before in this millennium, in 2007-08 and 2015-16.