Bayern Leverkusen will host West Ham in their final pre-season friendly on Saturday (i.e. August 5) at the BayArena.
Bayern Leverkusen will host West Ham in their final pre-season friendly on Saturday (i.e. August 5) at the BayArena. Xabi Alonso’s side got the better of Marseille 2-1 in their penultimate warm-up match. Resisting interest from Tottenham Hotspur continues to cloud over BayArena hot seat. Leverkusen head coach Alonso oversaw Die Werkself’s eye-catching run to the Europa League semi-finals last year, following their short-lived bid at Champions League stardom. A sixth-placed finish in the Bundesliga offered Leverkusen a route back into Europe’s secondary competition. But the hosts’ pre-season preparations began in dismal fashion with back-to-back defeats to Paderborn and Real Sociedad. A significant period of change has occurred at BayArena this summer, as the long-serving Kerem Demirbay and Karim Bellarabi have followed Aston Villa’s new boy Moussa Diaby out of the door. But Alex Grimaldo, Granit Xhaka, Victor Boniface and Jonas Hofmann have stayed on with the German side.
While the West Ham faithful can empathise when it comes to losing long-serving players. The Irons are yet to bring in a single marquee addition to their squad. They have only managed to capture Irish starlet Sean Moore from Cliftonville before embarking on a period of goal-laden friendlies. David Moyes’s Europa Conference League winners sealed a trio of successive wins over Boreham Wood, Perth Glory and Tottenham Hotspur before being pegged back on two occasions in a 2-2 stalemate with Dagenham & Redbridge. Moyes’s side has just one shot at exhibition redemption on Saturday before their Premier League campaign kicks off with a trip to Bournemouth on August 12.
Hradecky, Tapsoba, Kossounou, Tah, Frimpong, Xhaka, Palacios, Grimaldo, Wirtz, Boniface, Hlozek
Fabianski, Coufal, Zouma, Aguerd, Emerson, Downes, Soucek, Paqueta, Bowen, Ings, Benrahma
| Opponents | Score |
| Marseille | 1-2 (W) |
| Real Sociedad | 1-0 (L) |
| Paderborn | 2-1 (L) |
| Bochum | 3-0 (L) |
| Borussia M’gladbach | 2-2 (D) |
| Opponents | Score |
| Rennes | 3-1 (L) |
| Dag & Red | 2-2 (D) |
| Tottenham | 2-3 (W) |
| Perth Glory | 2-6 (W) |
| Boreham | 1-4 (W) |
This will be the first-ever encounter between both teams.
The club-friendly match between Bayern Leverkusen and West Ham will take place at BayArena on Saturday at 5:00 pm IST.
| Bayern Leverkusen vs West Ham | Key Details |
| Date | August 5 (Germany) |
| Venue | BayArena |
| Kickoff time in Germany | 1:30 pm |
| Kickoff time in the UK | 12:30 pm |
| Kickoff time in India | 5:00 pm |
In the United States, fans can watch the match on ESPN Deportes, ESPN+, fuboTV and ESPN App. While fans in Germany can watch the game on DAZN and DAZN1. Fans of Australia can stream the match live on beIN SPORTS 2, beIN Sports Connect and Foxtel Now. The international streaming of this match will happen on Fanseat. However, there will be no telecast of this match in India.
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