In the final round of Europa League group-stage fixtures this season, Bayer Leverkusen will aim to finish with a perfect record on Thursday, when they play host to Molde who will fight for qualification.
The German hosts have won each of their five matches thus far, while their visitors trail second-placed Qarabag FK on goal difference.
In what has been a memorable campaign on all front thus far, having gone unbeaten in all competitions under Xabi Alonso, Die Werkself have won all five of their continental outings, scoring 15 goals along the way while only conceding twice, starting with a 4-0 thrashing of Hacken and a 2-1 victory away at Molde, as Jeremie Frimpong and Nathan Tella got on the scoresheet against Thursday's opponents.
A pair of meetings with Qarabag then followed, and Alonso's men dished out a 5-1 beating at the BayArena and triumphed by a goal to nil thanks to Victor Boniface's injury-time penalty, before they most recently travelled to Hacken and leaving with a 2-0 victory as Boniface was again on the scoresheet alongside Patrik Schick.
That result stretched their run to 14 straight wins across all competitions, and while continuing an unbeaten streak, they do now head into the final group game on the back of a pair of 1-1 Bundesliga draws with Borussia Dortmund and Stuttgart either side of a DFB-Pokal triumph over Paderborn, as they most recently came from a goal down to take a share of the spoils away at third-placed Stuttgart at the weekend thanks to Florian Wirtz's leveller.
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