RB Leipzig vs Hamburger SV - prediction, team news, lineups

Desperate to get disconnected the people successful the Bundesliga, bottom-of-the-table Hamburger SV volition question to look Champions League hopefuls RB Leipzig astatine Red Bull Arena connected Sunday.

Die Roten Bullen are looking to bounce backmost aft consecutive defeats, portion HSV volition beryllium warring to debar yet different nonaccomplishment of their own.

Match preview

Martin Demichelis's Leipzig tenure has taken a crook for the worse this month, but the manager volition beryllium optimistic astir his team's chances of uncovering their footing.

The erstwhile Bayern Munich and Manchester City defender made a beardown commencement successful the Red Bull Arena dugout, thoroughly beating Borussia Monchengladbach 3-0 successful his Bundesliga opener connected August 29.

That triumph followed connected from a 6-0 demolition of Trier successful the DFB-Pokal a week earlier, and had fans excited for the play ahead.

However, Leipzig stumbled and fell to a daze 3-1 decision against 2025-26 relegation candidates Werder Bremen connected September 5, a clash that saw them spell three-goals down and lone people a consolation effort via Ridle Baku successful the 95th minute.

Die Roten Bullen would person been hoping to beryllium it was a one-off result, but a 4-1 thrashing by Como successful the club's archetypal Champions League fixture has changed the complexion of Demichelis's reign truthful far.

That being said, Sunday's hosts volition beryllium assured that the location assemblage tin propulsion them to occurrence this weekend, considering that Leipzig person won each of their past six Bundesliga outings astatine Red Bull Arena, and are unbeaten astatine the crushed since January.

Meanwhile, Merlin Polzin's Hamburger survived successful commendable manner past term, but unless they tin prime up points soon, their destiny whitethorn not beryllium truthful fortunate this clip around.

HSV triumphed 3-0 implicit Verl successful the archetypal circular of the DFB-Pokal - their season's competitory curtain raiser - and were prepared for a pugnacious run ahead.

Polzin's broadside knew they were underdogs up against Borussia Dortmund connected the Bundsliga's archetypal matchday, and their 2-0 defeat came arsenic small surprise.

However, a 5-0 hammering astatine the hands of Mainz 05 past clip retired was much concerning, particularly considering Hamburger are yet to people successful the German apical flight.

Losing their archetypal 2 games of the play has near HSV astatine the ft of the table, level with chap slow-starters Gladbach and Hoffenheim.

Sunday's visitors volition beryllium keen to forestall the spread to information from expanding this weekend, but fixed they are facing 1 of the division's Champions League contenders, fans volition beryllium fearing the worst. 

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Team News

Leipzig volition beryllium lighter successful midfield than perfect connected Sunday, with both Christoph Baumgartner and Rocco Reitz sidelined owed to respective hamstring and thigh injuries.

In their absence, expect to see Ezechiel Banzuzi join Neil El Aynaoui and Nicolas Seiwald successful the centre of the park.

As for Hamburger, they are missing centre-back Sebastiaan Bornauw owed to a musculus injury, though Jordan Torunarigha, Shafiq Bello Nandja and the versatile Nicolas Capaldo should beryllium connected manus to signifier Polzin's three-man defence.

Elsewhere, midfielder Kofi Jeremy Amoako is dealing with illness, so Nicolai Remberg and Albert Sambi Lokonga volition proceed successful the motor room, flanked by wing-backs Zakaria El Ouahdi and David Moller Wolfe.

In the guardant line, Albert Gronbaek and Fabio Vieira look acceptable to enactment striker Patson Daka up top, while 19-year-old winger Alexander Rossing-Lelesiit recovers from a semipermanent ankle issue.

RB Leipzig imaginable starting lineup:

Vandevoordt; Baku, Orban, Lukeba, Raum; Siewald, El Aynaoui, Banzuzi; Maksimovic, Nkunku, Nusa

Hamburger SV imaginable starting lineup:

Heuer; Bello, Capaldo, Torunarigha; El Ouahdi, Lokonga, Remberg, Moller Wolfe; Vieira, Gronbaek; Daka

We say: RB Leipzig 3-1 Hamburger SV

Leipzig whitethorn person suffered dense defeats successful their past 2 outings, but they should person much than capable to cod the points this weekend.

That being said, the hosts person been porous defensively, and Hamburger mightiness beryllium capable to extremity their scoring drought - adjacent if they yet lose.

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