Bayer Leverkusen vs Union Berlin

12 November 2023 · Bundesliga · 2023/24 · Referee Timo Gerach

Full time 4 – 0

Half-time: 1–0

Álex Grimaldo 23’
Odilon Kossounou 57’
Jonathan Tah 73’
Nathan Tella 83’

Match summary

Bayer Leverkusen won comfortably, 4-0 at home to Union Berlin. Bayer Leverkusen led 1-0 at half-time.

In the first half, Álex Grimaldo put Bayer Leverkusen ahead in the 23rd minute, set up by Florian Wirtz. In the second half, Odilon Kossounou made it 2-0 with a header in the 57th minute, set up by Jonas Hofmann, Jonathan Tah made it 3-0 from a corner in the 73rd minute, set up by Álex Grimaldo, and Nathan Tella made it 4-0 in the 83rd minute, set up by Amine Adli.

The chances backed that up: Bayer Leverkusen created 3.06 expected goals (xG) from 18 shots to Union Berlin's 0.03 from 2.

Match stats

19 Shots 2

10 Shots on Target 2

10 Corners 1

0 Yellow Cards 1

0 Red Cards 0

3.04 xG 0.03

3.04 Non-penalty xG 0.03

10 Deep Completions 0

Key events

Bayer Leverkusen Union Berlin

Kick-off

Álex Grimaldo
Assist: Florian Wirtz

1-0

23’

Half-time1-0

Odilon Kossounou
Assist: Jonas Hofmann

2-0

57’

Jonathan Tah
Assist: Álex Grimaldo

3-0

73’

Nathan Tella
Assist: Amine Adli

4-0

83’

Full-time4-0

Bookings

Card times are not on file for this game, so they are listed without a minute.

Union Berlin

Frederik Rönnow

How the chances added up

Running total of expected goals (xG) for each side through the match. xG rates each chance by how often similar shots are scored. A goal is marked where it was scored.

Bayer Leverkusen 3.06 xGUnion Berlin 0.03 xG Goal

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Shot map

Every shot and where it was taken from.

Union Berlin attacking Bayer Leverkusen attacking

Size shows xG Goal On target Off target or blocked

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Player stats

Player	Pos	Min	G	A	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Lukas Hradecky	GK	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Piero Hincapié	DEF	90			0	0.00	0.00	0
Jonathan Tah	DEF	90	1		2	0.09	0.00	0
Odilon Kossounou	DEF	90	1		1	0.48	0.46	1
Jeremie Frimpong	MID	83			2	0.95	0.47	2
Álex Grimaldo	MID	90	1	1	2	0.07	0.17	2
Granit Xhaka	MID	90			1	0.02	0.00	0
Exequiel Palacios	MID	88			0	0.00	0.00	0
Florian Wirtz	MID	89		1	3	0.55	0.24	5
Jonas Hofmann	MID	83		1	1	0.04	0.57	3
Victor Boniface	FWD	89			4	0.64	0.49	1
Amine Adli	Sub	7		1	1	0.11	0.11	1
Nathan Tella	Sub	7	1		1	0.11	0.00	0
Robert Andrich	Sub	2			0	0.00	0.00	0
Noah Mbamba-Muanda	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0
Adam Hlozek	Sub	1			0	0.00	0.00	0

Player	Pos	Min	Sh	xG	xA	KP
Frederik Rönnow	GK	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Paul Jäckel	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Diogo Leite	DEF	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Leonardo Bonucci	DEF	23	0	0.00	0.00	0
Josip Juranovic	MID	48	0	0.00	0.00	0
Jérôme Roussillon	MID	81	0	0.00	0.01	1
Alex Kral	MID	90	0	0.00	0.00	0
Aissa Laidouni	MID	90	1	0.01	0.00	0
Janik Haberer	MID	90	1	0.01	0.00	0
Sheraldo Becker	MID	66	0	0.00	0.01	1
David Datro Fofana	FWD	80	0	0.00	0.00	0
Robin Knoche	Sub	67	0	0.00	0.00	0
Christopher Trimmel	Sub	42	0	0.00	0.00	0
Brenden Aaronson	Sub	24	0	0.00	0.00	0
Kevin Behrens	Sub	10	0	0.00	0.00	0
Robin Gosens	Sub	9	0	0.00	0.00	0

Starters first, then substitutes. xA is expected assists.

Before kick-off

Bayer Leverkusen win 71% Avg odds 1.35

Draw 18% Avg odds 5.34

Union Berlin win 11% Avg odds 8.53

Chances implied by the average closing odds, with the bookmaker margin removed.

Form going into the game

Bayer Leverkusen W W W W W

Union Berlin L L L L L

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Previous and next meeting

Previous meeting: Union Berlin 0-0 Bayer Leverkusen, 29 Apr 23 Next meeting: Union Berlin 0-1 Bayer Leverkusen, 06 Apr 24 All Bayer Leverkusen vs Union Berlin meetings

Shots, expected goals and player data from Understat. Results and odds from football-data.co.uk. Referee data before 2025/26 from the Transfermarkt datasets project.