Bayer 04 Leverkusen and FC Bayern München are going to face on Thursday the 1st of January at 12:00 am in the 11th week of the Champions League. The match will be staged in Leverkusen at the BayArena. The referee will be Slavko Vinčić.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Bayer 04 Leverkusen
Bayer 04 Leverkusen has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 3-4-2-1 and 4-2-3-1 (3 times or 33.33% each of them).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (3 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-5-2 (2 times) and 4-4-2 (once).
Xabier Alonso Olano is expected to play against FC Bayern München with the following players: Matěj Kovář, Piero Hincapié, Jonathan Tah, Aleix García, Exequiel Palacios, Jeremie Frimpong, Alejandro Grimaldo, Patrik Schick and Nathan Tella.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Bayer 04 Leverkusen would be 27.50.
There are doubts about the presence of Granit Xhaka.
Xabier Alonso Olano will probably not be able to employ Edmond Tapsoba and Robert Andrich because of injury.
Jeanuël Belocian, Jonas Hofmann, Martin Terrier and Florian Wirtz will definitely miss the match.
Xabier Alonso Olano will not be able to have the presence of Nordi Mukiele who is suspended.
FC Bayern München
FC Bayern München has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (10 times or 90.91%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (10 times) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Vincent Kompany is expected to play against Bayer 04 Leverkusen with the following players: Jonas Urbig, Alphonso Davies, Dayot Upamecano, Min-jae Kim, Konrad Laimer, Joshua Kimmich, Leon Goretzka, Jamal Musiala, Kingsley Coman, Michael Olise and Harry Kane.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed, the average age of FC Bayern München would be 27.09.
Manuel Neuer, Daniel Peretz, Tarek Buchmann and Aleksandar Pavlović will definitely miss the match.
