📏 Form Guide
St. Pauli LDDWWL ⚖
St. Pauli will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 2-0 Bundesliga loss in their previous game against Stuttgart.
In that match, St. Pauli managed 46% possession and 9 attempts on goal with 2 on target. For their opponents, Stuttgart got 17 attempts at goal with 8 on target. Ermedin Demirović (43') and Bilal El Khannouss (50') scored for Stuttgart.
Over their last six games, Alexander Blessin's St. Pauli have netted a total of 7 times, with that being an average number of goals per match equal to 1.17.
Coming into this clash, St. Pauli are unbeaten in their last 2 home league matches.
Bayer Leverkusen WLDWDD
In the game prior to this, Bayer Leverkusen drew 1-1 in the Bundesliga tie with Borussia Mönchengladbach.
In that match, Bayer Leverkusen had 61% possession and 13 attempts at goal with 9 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Bayer Leverkusen was Malik Tillman (70'). For their opponents, Borussia Monchengladbach got 13 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Haris Tabaković (92') scored for Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Bayer Leverkusen have regularly broken through opposing defences of late, having scored 14 goals in their previous 6 matches. This doesn’t mask the fact that Bayer Leverkusen can also improve defensively after being scored against in 5 of those same games.
Looking at their past form shows that Bayer Leverkusen:
- have not been beaten in their last 35 league matches away from home. Quite incredible.
- have not won away from home in their last 4 matches in the league.
👥 Head to head
Checking on their past head to head results going back to 16/09/2001 tells us that these encounters have not been fruitful for St. Pauli. They have not managed to get any victories at all while Bayer Leverkusen have simply been better than them, running out winners in 67 per cent of those ties.
17 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 6 of them from St. Pauli and 11 coming from Leverkusen. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.83.
The last league clash featuring these sides was Bundesliga match day 30 on 20/04/2025 which finished with the scoreline of St. Pauli 1-1 Bayer Leverkusen.
In that match, St. Pauli managed 43% possession and 10 shots at goal with 5 on target. Their only player to score was Carlo Boukhalfa (78').
At the other end, Bayer Leverkusen got 6 attempts at goal with 4 on target. Patrik Schick (32') was the scorer.
The match was refereed by Sören Storks.
🗞️ Team News: St. Pauli
David Nemeth (muscular problems), Jackson Irvine (muscular problems) and Ricky-Jade Jones (Shoulder injury) will not be taking part for St. Pauli manager Alexander Blessin.
It looks as if St. Pauli will possibly employ a 4-4-2 system for this one with Nikola Vasilj, Hauke Wahl, Eric Smith, Adam Dzwigala, Manolis Saliakas, James Sands, Joel Chima Fujita, Louis Oppie, Danel Sinani, Andreas Hountondji and Mathias Pereira Lage.
🗞️ Team News: Bayer Leverkusen
We believe Leverkusen appear most likely to begin the game with a 3-4-2-1 lineup using Mark Flekken, Jarell Quansah, Loic Bade, Edmond Tapsoba, Lucas Vazquez, Robert Andrich, Aleix Garcia, Alejandro Grimaldo, Malik Tillman, Eliesse Ben Seghir and Patrik Schick.
🔮 Prediction
Here, we’re thinking that St. Pauli might well have a job on their hands to score goals against this Bayer Leverkusen lineup who we reckon will get the win and a maybe even keep a clean sheet as well.
We therefore fancy a good tussle with a 0-1 winning score for Bayer Leverkusen when the full-time whistle blows.
Should be an interesting one.
Andre Moura, 13:07 27/09/2025