H2H: Slavia Prague vs Bayer Leverkusen – Prediction (Europa League

H2H: Slavia v Bayer – Comparison.

Lukáš Provod netted a second-half strike against Hapoel, and did the same in Slavia’s last home match. Lucas Alario has scored four goals across Leverkusen’s last three games, with three of those goals coming before HT. Six of Leverkusen’s last eight UEL away games produced goals in both halves.

Slavia Insights.

Slavia Prague fell to a 3-1 defeat versus Hapoel in their UEFA Europa League (UEL) opener despite being favourites, but will put that down to an imperfect build-up due to sport and training in the Czech Republic being limited earlier this month due to Covid-19. Things might not get any better here as they take on Bayer Leverkusen, considering Slavia have scored an average of just 0.43 goals per fixture across their previous 14 European games against German opposition (W3, D3, L8). At home, the Czech champions are unbeaten in 14 competitive matches (W10, D4), a run that includes an impressive 11 clean sheets. In fact they didn’t concede a single goal at home during their last UEL group stage campaign (2018/19), but despite that, hold just a 33.33% win-rate at home in this tournament proper (W4, D4, L4).

Bayer Insights.

Bayer Leverkusen are enjoying a German-record fourth UEL group stage, and their 6-2 hammering of Nice on matchday one made them the highest scoring Bundesliga team in the UEL’s history (64 goals). In fact their 3-1 win over Augsburg last time out extended their unbeaten streak in all games this season to seven (W4, D3), five of which they led at HT. The visitors travel here in impressive away form, going unbeaten in ten of their last 13 continental away games (W6, D4, L3), and have won their last three by a 2+ goal margin after scoring in both halves and leading at HT.