Freiburg vs RasenBallsport Leipzig – Bundesliga – Preview

Posted on November 25, 2016 by Sreya

Freiburg vs RasenBallsport Leipzig – Freigburg host RasenBallsport Leipzig at Dreisamstadion on 25th November, Friday as RasenBallsport Leipzig aim to consolidate their position on the top of the Bundesliga standings.

The newly-promoted side ascended the summit of the league standings in the last gameweek when they came back from behind to win 3-2 at Bayer Leverkusen while Bayern Munich fell to a 1-0 loss at Borussia Dortmund. RB Leipzig have twenty seven points from eleven games, three points ahead of the second-placed defending champions and six points ahead of Borussia Dortmund.

Freiburg are tenth in league standings with fifteen points, having lost their last two matches.

Team News

Freiburg have a lengthy list of absentees with Marc-Oliver Kempf, Havard Nielsen, Lukas Kubler, Jonas Meffert, Maximilian Philipp and Karim Guede sidelined through injuries. Caglar Soyuncu is suffering from concussion and is likely to miss out as well.

Lukas Klostermann, Bernardo, Marvin Compper and Kyriakos Papadopoulos are the injury concerns for RasenBallsport Leipzig.

Freiburg Possible Starting Lineup: Alexander Schwolow, Pascal Stenzel, Marc Torrejon, Manuel Guide, Christian Gunter, Mike Frantz, Nikolas Hofler, Amir Abrashi, Vincenzo Grifo, Nils Petersen, Florian Niederlechner.

RasenBallsport Leipzig Possible Starting Lineup: Peter Gulasci, Benno Schmitz, Stefan Ilsanker, Willi Orban, Marcel Halstenberg, Marcel Sabitzer, Diego Demme, Nabi Keita, Emil Forsberg, Timo Werner, Yussuf Poulsen.

Contributor’s Pick

According to Freiburg vs RasenBallsport Leipzig H2H stats, Freiburg have won one and drawn one of their previous two meetings with RasenBallsport Leipzig. The visitors have won their last six Bundesliga matches, scoring a minimum of two goals in their last four games.

The odds for a RasenBallsport Leipzig win are at a lowly 1.91 and it would be a safe bet to assume the visitors are likely to win tonight. With the odds for ‘over 2.5 goals’ scored in the match at 1.88, a 2-1 win for RasenBallsport Leipzig is the most probable result.