Bayer Leverkusen v Inter Milan: Prediction and Tips

The champions of Germany and Italy lock horns in the UEFA Champions League at the BayArena when Bayer Leverkusen host Inter Milan, and with both teams strongly favoured to automatically qualify for the knockout stage, there may not be much to separate them.

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Bayer Leverkusen v Inter Milan Prediction

Key Prediction Stats & Insights

Supercomputer Prediction

Bayer Leverkusen v Inter Milan Betting Tips

Predicted Starting Line-ups

Bayer Leverkusen v Inter Milan Prediction

Prediction	BetSie Supercomputer %	Odds	Odds %
Draw	24.4%	5/2	28.6%
Leverkusen 1-1 Inter	N/A	11/2	15.4%

Key Prediction Stats & Insights

• Bayer Leverkusen are unbeaten in their last 11 home European matches

• Inter Milan have lost just one of their 19 matches this season

• Inter have yet to concede a goal in five Champions League games this term

Supercomputer Prediction

Bayer Leverkusen	45.3%
Draw	24.4%
Inter Milan	30.3%

The odds suggest that Bayer Leverkusen have a 45.5% chance of beating Inter in their upcoming fixture.

Those odds correspond with the BetSie Supercomputer, which favours a Bayer Leverkusen victory and rates Inter's chances at 30.3%.

Bayer Leverkusen v Inter Milan Betting Tips

Tip	Current Odds
Under 2.5 goals	1/1
Florian Wirtz over 1.5 shots on target	11/4
Denzel Dumfries to be booked	15/4

Under 2.5 goals - 1/1

Both Bayer Leverkusen and Inter Milan will have had hopes of deep runs in this season’s UEFA Champions League having claimed their domestic titles last term, and there looks a strong chance that clear-cut opportunities will be thin on the ground at the BayArena.

Inter have yet to concede a goal in this season’s competition and are second in the table behind Liverpool. The fact they have scored just seven times in those five games points to under 2.5 goals being a decent bet for Tuesday’s match.

Leverkusen bounced back from a 4-0 defeat at Anfield by beating FC Salzburg 5-0 in their last European game, but manager Xabi Alonso may have to look for a change of approach for this clash as strikers Victor Boniface and Patrick Schick both look set to miss out.

Inter demonstrated their defensive strength in claiming a goalless draw at Manchester City early on in the season before the Citizens hit their slump in form, and they have lost just once this season, so it would not be a surprise if the defences came out on top.

Florian Wirtz to have over 1.5 shots on target - 11/4

Boniface and Schick’s potential absence for Leverkusen could mean that Florian Wirtz will be utilised in a more advanced role against Inter, so the Germany international may have a big influence in the final third.

The 21-year-old is capable of flourishing in a game like this and has already shown his appetite for the UEFA Champions League, having scored five goals in as many games in this season’s competition.

Wirtz was on target twice in the 5-0 win over Salzburg and he has registered 13 efforts on goal in those matches.

Eight of those attempts have been on target and as he has tested the goalkeeper on more than one occasion in three of his UEFA Champions League appearances this season, a price of him doing so that number of times again looks attractive at 11/4.

Denzel Dumfries to be booked - 15/4

No player in this season’s UEFA Champions League has committed more fouls than Inter Milan’s wing-back Denzel Dumfries and he looks a big price to go into the book at the BayArena.

The Dutchman has been pulled up 13 times in his last four appearances in the competition and although he has gone into the book just once, he has been cautioned three times in Serie A even though he has re-established himself as a starter only in the last few weeks.

Dumfries has committed 11 fouls in his last four league games for the Italian champions and it could all catch up with him on this visit to Germany.

Predicted Starting Line-ups

Bayer Leverkusen

Formation: 3-5-2
Team: Hradecky; Tapsoba, Tah, Hincapie; Arthur, Palacios, Xhaka, Garcia, Grimaldo; Tella, Wirtz

Inter Milan

Formation: 3-5-2
Team: Sommer; Bisseck, De Vrij, Bastoni; Dumfries, Barella, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco; Thuram, Martinez

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