Real Madrid vs Bayer Leverkusen - who is the better team?

Currently Real Madrid has a better 1vs1 performance index with 94. Real Madrid has 75 goals and Bayer 04 Leverkusen has a total of 57 goals. Our opinion is that currently Real Madrid would win the match.

• At the moment Bayer 04 Leverkusen has the better defense. Through the entire team they have a total of 1406 interceptions and 69 blocks.
• In Bayer 04 Leverkusen the two top defensive players are Edmond Faycal Faycial Tapsoba and Robert Andrich.
• In Real Madrid the two top defenders are Eder Militao and Aurelien Tchouameni.
• Based on this statistics we believe that Bayer 04 Leverkusen has currently the best defense.

Evaluating the strength of a teams midfield is not easy. At 1vs1 we look at a value called Pass Progression Value (PPV). We measure the ability of players to play the pass into dangerous zones and to create chances. Real Madrid has a PPV value of 0.4 and Bayer 04 Leverkusen has a value of 0.25. Within the team of Real Madrid Toni Kroos has a total value of 0.85 and in the team of Bayer 04 Leverkusen the best player is Jeremie Frimpong.

• To analyse the best strikers of teams we look at the amount of goals, shots on goal and an interesting metric called expected goal value (Xg value – measure who the probability of a chance to turn into a goal.)
• Real Madrid has scored in this season so far 75 goals and 34.58 shots on goal. Bayer 04 Leverkusen scored 57 and 40.1 shots on goal.
• The two best players of Real Madrid are Karim Benzema with 19 goals and Vinicius Junior with 10 goals. Their expected goal value per 90 minutes is 22.47 and 8.29.
• The two best players of Bayer 04 Leverkusen are Moussa Diaby with 9 goals and Jeremie Frimpong with 8 goals. Their expected goal value per 90 minutes is 9.2 and 6.58.
• Our opinion is that Real Madrid has the better offensive players than Bayer 04 Leverkusen.

Based on all statistical information we believe that currently Real Madrid is the better team. Please feel free to discuss with us – the comment box is below. We will be happy to reply.