POSSIBLE LINE-UPS
EINTRACHT: Nikolov – Jung, Franz, Russ, Tzavellas – Meier, Schwegler – Ochs, Caio, Köhler – Gekas.
LEVERKUSEN: Adler – Castro, Reinartz, Hyypiä, Kadlec – Ballack, Rolfes – Sam, Vidal, Renato Augusto – Kießling.
ATTENDANCE
Around 45,000 are expected on Saturday afternoon, 41,000 tickets have been officially sold so far. Ticket booths will be open around the stadium from 13.30h on matchday.
COLOURS
The Eagles will play in traditional black and red, Leverkusen in white.
INTERNATIONAL TV
The game will be internationally broadcasted. To check out potential Bundesliga channels in your country click HERE.
ONLINE LIVE INFO
You can follow all the action from wherever you are via www.eintracht.de – the English LIVE text commentary includes updates on goals, shots, fouls, cards, subs and offsides as and when they happen. Click HERE from kick off onwards.
WEATHER
According to the forecast it will be cloudy on Saturday afternoon, with highs around eight degrees Celsius.
RECENT MEETINGS
The first leg this season ended with a close 2-1 Leverkusen win. Last season Eintracht managed a 3-2 win at home against Bayer 04 (goals from Teber, Caio and Franz).
ALL TIME RECORD
Eintracht managed 14 wins in 27 home games against Bayer Leverkusen (4 draws, 9 defeats). In 1982 the Eagles beat the ‘Werkself’ 5-0, one of Leverkusen’s highest defeats ever. All time Frankfurt heroes Bum Kun Cha (2), Bruno Pezzey and Michael Kuenast (2) scored back in the days.
FACTS & FIGURES
- Frankfurt have only won one of their last five games against Bayer (three defeats, one draw), but significantly that was in last season's home match (3-2).
- This is the 54th Bundesliga match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Bayer Leverkusen. None of the previous 53 fixtures have ended 0-0 and an average of 3.1 goals have been scored in these games.
- Bayer have already scored 18 goals following set piece situations – a league-high alongside Hoffenheim.
- Bayer's 0-1 defeat at Nürnberg was their first defeat away from home this season.
- Bayer had scored in 11 consecutive matches before that streak ended at Nürnberg.
