The Bundesliga is back in action this weekend with a new round of games beginning with a crucial meeting between VfL Wolfsburg and Bayer Leverkusen on Saturday at the BayArena.

On the Bundesliga standings, VfL Wolfsburg is now in 13th place and generally falls short of expectations. The away team must recover in this game after being eliminated from the DFB Pokal by Eintracht Braunschweig last week.

On the other side, Bayer Leverkusen is now in 16th place in the league table and has had an unexpectedly bad season. Die Werkself are out to avenge their shocking 5-1 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt in their previous match.

Date and kickoff time

Saturday, October 22nd 2022

UK (BST) 2:30 PM 

CEST: 3:30 PM

Eastern Time: 09:30 AM

Central Time:  08:30 AM

Mountain Time: 07:30 AM

Pacific Time: 06:30 AM

Gulf Standard Time: 5:30 PM

Indian Standard Time: 7:00 PM

Bayer Leverkusen vs VfL Wolfsburg live stream and TV channel

UK and Ireland: N/A

US: ESPN+, ESPN App

Australia: beIN Sports Connect, Foxtel Now

France: beIN Sports MAX 7, beIN SPORTS CONNECT, Free

Germany: Sky Sport Bundesliga 1, Sky Go, Sky Sport Bundesliga 6, WOW

India: Sony LIV, JioTV

Netherlands: Viaplay Netherlands

New Zealand: beIN Sports Connect New Zealand

Nigeria: Startimes Sports Focus, StarTimes App

Norway: Viaplay Norway

South Africa: Startimes Sports Focus, StarTimes App

Spain: Movistar+, Movistar Liga de Campeones 2

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Team News

Since taking over, Alonso has made minimal adjustments to the starting lineup, choosing to stick with the same players from the Gerardo Seoane period.

Leverkusen is still battling with many injuries, particularly in the offence, where Florian Wirtz, Karim Bellarabi, Callum Hudson-Odoi, and Sardar Azmoun have missed the majority of the season thus far.

Kovac selected a team for Wolfsburg’s DFB-Pokal match that was much the same as the one that faced Borussia Monchengladbach in the league on Saturday. The only regular starter who received a break was Maxence Lacroix. Thus it is assumed that the Frenchman will return to the centre-back position to replace Sebastiaan Bornauw.

Max Kruse, 34, is still sidelined up top as he recovers from a hip injury, but Jerome Roussillon, who missed the first half of the season with an Achilles injury sustained in preseason, might be close to returning.

Bayer Leverkusen Bundesliga form:

D, D, L, W, L

Wolfsburg Bundesliga form:

W, L, W, D, D

Bayer Leverkusen possible starting lineup:

Hradecky; Tapsoba, Tah, Kossounou; Frimpong, Andrich, Aranguiz, Bakker; Diaby, Schick, Paulinho

Wolfsburg possible starting lineup:

Casteels; Baku, Lacroix, Van de Ven, Otavio; Wimmer, Svanberg, Arnold, Gerhardt, Kaminski; L Nmecha

Prediction

Bayer Leverkusen 1-1 Wolfsburg

Incredibly, in the last 12 meetings between the teams, the team playing at home in this match has failed to win. Given Leverkusen’s recent form, that trend appears unlikely to change.

Eight of Leverkusen’s ten Bundesliga games this season have featured three or more goals, but many of those goals have gone in at Bayer’s goal, so if Wolfsburg can take advantage of that, they should come away with something.