Bochum vs RB Leipzig Prediction & Betting Tips (2 March)

As usual since its arrival in the elite 3 years ago, Bochum would happily be content with a quick continuation this season in order to continue its epic at the highest level of German football. And the VfL seems well on its way to playing a 4th year in a row in the Bundesliga since it has a nice lead of 8 points over the play-off team, Cologne. Capable of the best and the worst in recent times, Thomas Letsch's men were held to a draw by Augsburg 1-1 and Eintracht Frankfurt 1-1 before bringing down Bayern Munich 3-2. But last week, they were quickly brought to their senses by losing heavily on the lawn of Borussia Mönchengladbach 5-2. On the Leipzig side, ambitions were revised downwards for this 2023-2024 financial year. Indeed, RasenBall Sport was not able to support the best teams in Germany in the title race and the priority objective at the end of the season will be to re-enter the top 4 in order to secure a ticket for the Champions League.

At present, Marco Rose's men remain planted in 5th position with a small point behind 4th place. Hanging against Augsburg 2-2, they were then able to calmly defeat Borussia Mönchengladbach 2-0 before falling, at the end of the match, during the shock against Bayern Munich last weekend 2-1. Note that in the Champions League, the Red Bulls got off to a bad start during their 1/8 finals by losing to Real Madrid 0-1. They will try to turn the situation around next week.

For the locals, replacement goalkeepers Esser and Thiede, important midfielder Osterhage and defender Oermann (11 matches played) are still forced to give up participating in this meeting, all injured. This is also the case for the rather interesting striker Antwi-Adjei. On the other hand, the French midfielder Losilla makes his return after being suspended last week for an accumulation of yellow cards but it will be the turn of the starting goalkeeper Riemann and the defender Masovic to take a trip to the "prison" box for this part for the same reasons.

On the offensive side, the striker Asano (6 goals) and the very good Austrian Stöger (5 goals, 6 assists) are the two major cards of this team but the center forward Hofmann finally unlocked his counter last week while he had remained silent so far this season.