Bayer Leverkusen 2-0 VfL Wolfsburg
Key numbers
- Possession 76% – 24%
- Shots 19 (8 on target) – 2 (1)
- Decisive moment: 37' Nathan Tella, FN xPts +0.5
Player of the match
Exequiel Palacios 8.8Dominant
Highest FN Score on the pitch: 8.8 (Dominant)
Game state
1-02-0
Bayer Leverkusen ahead 53 min · level 37 min · VfL Wolfsburg ahead 0 min
- VfL Wolfsburg: Red card 28' → ~62 min a player down
FN xPts — what each moment was worth
How much each moment changed that team's expected points (win 3, draw 1). A goal's value is credited 70% to the scorer and 30% to the assist.
28'
Moritz Jenz
Red card
−0.3
37'
Nathan Tella
Goal · scorer +0.3 · assist Alejandro Grimaldo +0.2
+0.5
86'
Florian Wirtz
Goal · assist Exequiel Palacios
+0.1
Bayer Leverkusen
Expected (last two seasons) 2.1Own moments +0.6Opponent moments +0.4Time effect −0.1→ League points won 3
VfL Wolfsburg
Expected (last two seasons) 0.7Own moments −0.3Opponent moments −0.4Time effect 0.0→ League points won 0
Expected points don't add up to a fixed total (a draw is 1 + 1), so an opponent's moment isn't simply the mirror of your loss. "Time effect" is the change as the clock runs down on a lead or a chase, and isn't credited to any player.
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Match stats
Bayer LeverkusenVfL Wolfsburg
2.09Expected goals (xG)0.17
Compared with usual
Bayer Leverkusen
35 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | |
|---|
| Goals | 2 | 2.9 | |
| Conceded | 0 | 0.74 | |
| xG | 2.09 | 1.8 | |
| xG against | 0.17 | 0.83 | |
| Shots | 19 | 17.5 | |
| On target | 8 | 7 | |
| Shots faced | 2 | 9 | |
| xG per shot | 0.11 | 0.11 | |
| Possession | 76% | 62.4% | |
| Passes | 899 | 672.4 | |
| Pass accuracy | 93% | 88.5% | |
| Corners | 9 | 6.5 | |
| Fouls | 6 | 9.3 | |
VfL Wolfsburg
27 matches this season, all competitions baseline
| This match | Avg | |
|---|
| Goals | 0 | 1.4 | |
| Conceded | 2 | 1.5 | |
| xG | 0.17 | 1.1 | |
| xG against | 2.09 | 1.2 | |
| Shots | 2 | 12.7 | low |
| On target | 1 | 4.9 | |
| Shots faced | 19 | 12.5 | |
| xG per shot | 0.09 | 0.09 | |
| Possession | 24% | 48% | low |
| Passes | 280 | 451.1 | low |
| Pass accuracy | 76% | 79% | |
| Corners | 2 | 4.6 | |
| Fouls | 7 | 13.1 | |
Timeline
- 7'
Yellow
Yannick Gerhardt
- 12'
Yellow
Moritz Jenz
- 28'
Second yellow
Moritz Jenz
- 32'
Sub
Jonas Wind → Sebastiaan Bornauw
- 37'
Goal
Nathan Tella league goal #5 assist Alejandro Grimaldo
- 59'
Sub
Piero Hincapié → Amine Adli
- 63'
Sub
Tiago Tomás → Lamin Sarr
- 63'
Sub
Lovro Majer → Aster Vranckx
- 76'
Sub
Nathan Tella → Jonas Hofmann
- 76'
Sub
Patrik Schick → Borja Iglesias
- 80'
Yellow
Amine Adli
- 86'
Goal
Florian Wirtz league goal #6 assist Exequiel Palacios
- 87'
Sub
Cedric Zesiger → Patrick Wimmer
- 88'
Sub
Yannick Gerhardt → Kevin Behrens
- 90'
Sub
Exequiel Palacios → Robert Andrich
- 90'
Sub
Florian Wirtz → Adam Hložek
Category leaders
- Key passesAlejandro Grimaldo4
- Duels wonFlorian Wirtz9/20
- DribblesFlorian Wirtz5/9
- Defensive actionsKevin Paredes5
- Fouls wonFlorian Wirtz3
Past-season matches are summarised from match data (API-Football) without a written review. FN Score and FN xPts are calculated by Fulltime Note using a published formula.